ScreenAnarchy: Features

Friday One Sheet: THE FURIOUS

Fri, 29 May 2026 09:45:09 -0500

Today we have a rather abstract poster from Vietnam-based visual artist Khang Giate for the forthcoming mega-action picture The Furious. Given the 'dog-pile' martial arts style practically pioneered by this film (it is indeed something to behold) this poster does a bang-up job of offering a taste, here hand-drawn and garnished with plenty of the red stuff. The title is oozing it. Props for the "the" tucked in the space of the R in the title card here, to keep it visually to a single word. The background is unusually geometric, like impact-cracked pains of panes of glass. Foregrounded is a very angry fellow, wielding a hammer with intent. The knives and limbs and faces below mean business as well. The Furious is a no-nonsense kind of action...

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Now Streaming: MY TWO CENTS, MURDER MINDFULLY, THE FOUR SEASONS Take Aim at Comedy Around the World

Thu, 28 May 2026 15:37:03 -0500

Quick thoughts on 3 new series -- animated Italian, and live-action German and U.S. -- all debuting on Netflix.

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Echoes: 2026 Might Be the Biggest Movie Year in a Decade. Or a Nasty Face-Plant.

Tue, 26 May 2026 01:02:01 -0500

For the first time in years, 2026 could prove to be electrifying. The three major franchise empires are at war as they are trying to redefine themselves, especially with new DC Studios co-heads, Peter Safran and James Gunn. It's getting crazy among DC Studios, Marvel Studios, and Lucasfilm. Worldwide, modern audiences have fallen victim to so-called fast content -- hello, TikTok! -- and their attention spans are smashed. It is much more challenging for major studios to keep them hooked and give them something show-stopping to buy the tickets. Promotional materials need to wow viewers, so that they rush to theaters. Then the film needs to be emotionally authentic, so as to hit them in their gut. Studios are now on a hamster wheel of...

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Opening This Week: BACKROOMS Liminal Horror, PRESSURE Wartime Tension, THE CURRENTS Psychological Mystery

Mon, 25 May 2026 12:02:12 -0500

Plus: 'Forastera,' 'Pitfall,' 'With Hasan in Gaza,' 'Speed Demon.'

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Sound And Vision: Timur Bekmambetov

Mon, 25 May 2026 10:00:04 -0500

In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we take a look at several music videos directed by Timur Bekmambetov. I rarely discuss tie-in music videos, music videos that are made to accompany a feature. Not because I am against them, but because I think the main reason for the existence of the Sound and Vision is the disparity between a filmmaker's output in music videos and features. If a music video is already tied into a feature, there is not much more for me to say or compare. Rarely is there something interesting to add. Enter Timur Bekmambetov. He made many music videos early in his career, mostly for the singer Chicherina....

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Now Streaming: JACK RYAN: GHOST WAR, THE BRIDE!, THIS IS NOT A TEST

Fri, 22 May 2026 12:02:12 -0500

Plus: 'Ladies First,' and a Quentin Tarantino double-bill with 'True Romance' and 'Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair.'

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Now Playing: SACCHARINE Hunger Horror, TUNER Crime Drama, PASSENGER Stalker Thriller

Fri, 22 May 2026 09:02:09 -0500

Plus: 'I Love Boosters,' 'Sick Puppy,' 'The Blood Moon Feast 8,' and ''Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu.'

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Echoes: How Laika Studios Beat Hollywood Giants

Tue, 19 May 2026 01:02:01 -0500

Allow me to take you into a bewitching world of animation styled by Laika. Laika is known for visually satisfying aesthetics with soft and comforting hues that haven't been witnessed in any other animated films produced by several other studios. I am talking about the award-winning Laika Studios that gave us ParaNorman (2012), Coraline (2009), and Kubo and the Two Strings (2016). Its latest, Wildwood, is breaking records with its teaser trailer views reaching up to 85M views, even more than Dune 3 and The Odyssey views combined! Wildwood is an adaptation of a children's fantasy novel written by Colin Meloy of The Decemberists and illustrated by Carson Ellis, first published in 2011. Located in Portland, Oregon, U.S., Laika's journey started 21 years ago and...

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Opening This Week: SACCHARINE Gets Hungry, TUNER Commits Crime, PASSENGER Stalks Relentlessly

Mon, 18 May 2026 12:02:12 -0500

Plus: 'I Love Boosters,' 'Sick Puppy,' 'Blood Meat Feast 8,' 'Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu.'

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Sound And Vision: Gus van Sant

Mon, 18 May 2026 10:00:03 -0500

In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at selected music videos by Gus van Sant. Gus van Sant is a weird director, but you wouldn't necessarily know it from watching his feature work. It's hard to pin-point a main style, as he has evolved through several eras of his work, going from New Queer Cinema-style films like Mala Noche, My Own Private Idaho and Even Cowgirls Get the Blues towards highly commercial melodrama fare like Good Will Hunting, before heading into James Benning-inspired Slow Cinema like Gerry, Elephant and Last Days. Detours like his oddball shot-for-shot Hitchcock-remake Psycho aside, he now is mostly churning out fairly rote (political) dramas which...

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Now Playing: OBSESSION, IS GOD IS, IN THE GREY

Fri, 15 May 2026 13:02:01 -0500

Plus: 'Decorado,' 'LifeHack,' 'Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway: The Sorcery of Nymph Circe,' 'Been Here Stay Here,' 'The Wizard of the Kremlin,' 'Magic Hour.'

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Friday One Sheet: SKIN OF YOUTH

Fri, 15 May 2026 10:02:10 -0500

I am here for the vertical and the horizontal. I am here for the grain, and the juxtaposition of skin tones and jade. I am here for the simple connection of two human beings in shared repose. Sometimes, key art need not be any more complicated than good colour matching and beautiful humans. Set in the shadowy underworld of 1990s Saigon, Ash Mayfair's Skin Of Youth crafts a striking portrait of queer life and personal freedom, blending emotional intensity with sensuous imagery. This is self-evident from the simple power of its key art. While there is an English language version of the original poster, below, that one lacks the criss-cross of vertical and horizontal text, a detail which better accents the vertical window in the background and...

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Echoes: Ari Aster's Movies Aren't Horror Anymore -- They're Something Stranger

Tue, 12 May 2026 10:12:10 -0500

Hereditary (2018) came as a shockingly pleasant surprise when it first hit the big screen. Ari Aster was up to something that no one could have imagined before. Audiences weren't aware that monsters could be much more than Freddy Krueger invading our dreams or virus-mutated zombies, something that could stay with them even after stepping out of the theater. Aster likes to distance himself from the traditional horror pack and focus on scares that are embedded within inescapable grief, dysfunctional family dynamics, and inherited trauma. The famous dinner table fight in Hereditary is a true depiction of trauma where Annie (Toni Collette) explodes at her son, Peter (Alex Wolff), after the death of his sister. When she screams, "Don't you swear at me, you little...

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Opening This Week: OBSESSION Got Game, IS GOD IS Got God, IN THE GREY Got Guy Ritchie

Mon, 11 May 2026 12:02:12 -0500

Plus: 'Decorado,' 'Life Hack,' 'Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway: The Sorcery of Nymph Circe,' 'Been Here Stay Here,' 'The Wizard of the Kremlin,' 'Magic Hour.'

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Pretty Packaging: ARCANE Season Two Is Loaded

Sat, 09 May 2026 13:00:02 -0500

During Christmas, things got rather busy in my household and as the International Film Festival Rotterdam was right after, I totally forgot to show you all the pretty fantastic-looking Blu-ray boxset of the second season of Arcane, the pretty fantastic League-of-Legends-inspired animated series. Well, it's a few months onward and I was wondering if I should actually still do this article. But I see this set for sale online still, sometimes going for astronomic prices, and I can imagine people being on the fence about whether to buy this or not. So, consider this to be a bit of extra consumer information. Also, I did write about the boxset for the first season so it would feel like unfinished business not to mention this one....

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Now Streaming Weekly Roundup: LEGENDS, LORD OF THE FLIES, UNCONDITIONAL

Fri, 08 May 2026 13:02:01 -0500

Plus: 'Amadeus,' 'The Chestnut Man S2,' 'Citadel S2.'

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Now Playing: MORTAL KOMBAT II Fights, THE SHEEP DETECTIVES Amuse, SILENT FRIEND Befriends

Fri, 08 May 2026 12:02:12 -0500

Plus: 'The Python Hunt,' 'Couples Weekend,' 'Neglected.'

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Friday One Sheet: EASY GIRL

Fri, 08 May 2026 10:02:10 -0500

Nore is a self-styled femme fatale who refuses to spend a night alone -- even if it means relying on strangers. Without a home of her own, she drifts from one pub rendezvous to the next, seducing admiring regulars. But one evening, when her charms fall flat, she runs into Jonna, a reserved medical student and former classmate. The key art for Hille Nordan's erotic drama, Easy Girl, is a masterclass in contrast and tactility. Black and white skin, upside-down framing, and the nylon stocking at just the moment of tension where it hangs up on the heel. The soft focus, high-grain, earthy tones in the background provide ample negative space for the lipstick title typography, and a centred credit block, which eschews the typical...

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Echoes: Empty Malls, Endless Hallways -- The New Face of Horror for Gen Z

Tue, 05 May 2026 01:02:01 -0500

Though we are well beyond the recent pandemic, Gen Z still feels the suffocation of those lockdown days, which makes it understandable why they remain fascinated by liminal spaces. Empty or transitional halls, abandoned malls, and lone-standing parking garages all insinuate their very dreaded pandemic-era isolation and the urge to engage with real people once again. Hence, it is no wonder that these "in-between" places reflect a comfortable familiarity with digital existence, turning unsettling atmospheres into a popular aesthetic known as "liminal horror." The sudden emptying of public spaces created their shared living experience in a "liminal" state. These liminal spaces instantly catch their attention wherever they appear, just as in Kane Parsons' viral Backrooms YouTube series, which began on January 7, 2022. It was...

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Opening This Week: THE SHEEP DETECTIVES Investigate, COUPLES WEEKEND Argues, SILENT FRIEND Enchants

Mon, 04 May 2026 12:02:12 -0500

Plus: 'The Python Hunt,' 'Neglected.'

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Pretty Packaging: The SHAWSCOPE VOLUME 4 Boxset Kicks Crazy Shins

Sun, 03 May 2026 09:00:01 -0500

Distributor Arrow has released its fourth boxset of Shaw Brothers films. The previous three were mentioned here in the Pretty Packaging articles, and this one looks very, VERY similar to them. So I wondered: should I put up an article for this release? I mean, look at them...you might be forgiven in thinking that three is enough. The thing is... this might be my favorite one yet, and that has to do with the contents. The Shaw Brothers studios released a lot of weird horror films in the seventies and eighties, absurdly entertaining films of a unique flavor. And while the earlier Shawscope boxsets focused on Martial Arts and historical swordplay, this one goes for the horror. From Black Magic (1+2) to Hex, to its...

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Now Playing: HOKUM Frights, ODYSSEY Thrills, OUR LAND Informs

Fri, 01 May 2026 11:02:11 -0500

Plus: 'The Devil Wears Prada 2,' 'Two Pianos,' 'That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: Tears of the Azure Sea,' 'The Million Dollar Bet,' 'Salt Along the Tongue,'

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Echoes: Claymation vs CGI: The Battle Between Handmade Charm and Digital Perfection

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 01:02:01 -0500

In the world of AI today, there is no doubt that claymation is considered an awe-inspiring niche of animation, even if not a mass market, unlike mainstream cartoons. It is surely time-consuming and expensive to produce, as every second of a shot requires dozens of hand movements and adjustments for a frame. Studios like Aardman have come up with the magnificent Wallace and Gromit vibe, despite not being a dominant kids' medium; I'll explain why. Anime, some of which has been increasingly AI-generated, has a wide audience, but claymation is equally revered and respected. It is an arduous, handcrafted art that has a strong nostalgic factor. Claymation still gets awards, and movies still earn 100% critics' scores on Rotten Tomatoes. The Wall Street Journal narrated...

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Opening This Week: HOKUM Nonstop Frights, ODYSSEY Gripping Thrills, OUR LAND Tragic Truth

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:02:12 -0500

Also: The genre-defying 'The Devil Wears Prada 2.' Plus: 'That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime,' 'The Million Dollar Bet,' and 'Salt Along the Tongue.'

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Now Streaming: Baltasar Kormákur's APEX Pits Charlize Theron vs. Taron Egerton

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:02:01 -0500

Plus: 'No Other Choice,' 'Marty Supreme,' and 'Dolly.'

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Now Playing: OVER YOUR DEAD BODY, FUZE, OMAHA

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:02:12 -0500

Plus: 'Mother Mary,' 'Two Women,' 'Two Seasons, Two Strangers,' 'Buffet Infinity,' 'Mistura.'

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Now Streaming: Aubrey Plaza in KEVIN, Nostalgia Reigns in STRANGER THINGS: TALES OF '85

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:02:11 -0500

Plus: Mythical dreams in 'My Brother the Minotaur.'

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Friday One Sheet: THE WIZARD OF THE KREMLIN

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 10:12:10 -0500

What went wrong here, exactly? Normally, this column is a celebration of novel, or exceptionally designed key art from around the world. Today, however we shall take a look at one of the worst posters of the year, one that sits somewhere in the Uncanny Valley, coupled with a kind of generic laziness. This hurts a bit, because I quite liked Olivier Assayas's peek into the Soviet collapse of the 1990s, and the evolution of the Russkiy Mir with the rise of industry Oligarchs and Vladimir Putin to reinvent the state TV as a more media-savvy entity charged to whip the population into a frenzy of hate. I loved Paul Dano and Jude Law's performances, as the political artist and the aspiring dictator, in The...

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THE SUPER MARIO GALAXY MOVIE: Well, What Did We Expect?

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 07:02:07 -0500

Looking at the complicated legacy of adapting Shigeru Miyamoto's seminal videogame series, 'The Super Mario Galaxy Movie' should come as no great surprise.

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Director in Focus: Tommy Wirkola's Brash Adventures, From KILL BULJO to THRASH

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:02:12 -0500

Norwegian filmmaker Tommy Wirkola continues to make irresistibly entertaining genre flicks, including the inspiration for this week's 'Over Your Dead Body.'

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Echoes: As Global Studios Continue to Dominate at CinemaCon 2026, Where Do Mid-Budget Films Fit?

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 01:02:01 -0500

It is a paradox in itself: on one hand, we have seen the biggest titles fall under Warner Bros.' distribution wing at CinemaCon 2026, and on the other hand, we have seen several smaller players step into the spotlight. At the same time, it's giving the industry an identity crisis; blockbusters are loud, but the demand for new, offbeat stories isn't going anywhere. Everyone is already pumped to see how Final Destination 7 takes shape and how death becomes more creative in choosing its next victims, following Warner Bros.' massive box-office success with Final Destination: Bloodlines (2025). Digger is already making a splash with its intrigue-filled storyline. The Ocean's 11 prequel is making noise due to casting hype, speculation, and the possibility of reinventing the...

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Opening This Week: OVER YOUR DEAD BODY Couple Trouble, FUZE Heist Thrills, OMAHA Grounded

Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:02:12 -0500

Plus: 'Two Women,' 'Two Seasons, Two Strangers,' 'Mistura,' and 'Buffet Infinity.'

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Sound And Vision: Cory McAbee

Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:00:03 -0500

In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at selected music videos by Cory McAbee. Cory McAbee is a conundrum, both as an artist and as a subject for a Sound and Vision. Always on the periphery of mainstream indie cinema he is the true example of an outsider indie artist. His cinematic work is singular, truly oddball and extremely great. The conundrum is this: what kind of artist is McAbee? And could we call some of his art music videos, which is after all the main subject of this editorial? Cory McAbee has a singular voice, and is a jack of all trades. He writes his movies, acts in them,...

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Now Streaming: DUST BUNNY and NIGHT PATROL Lead the Way

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:17:12 -0500

Plus: '180,' 'Verganza,' 'Margo's Got Money Troubles,' 'The Dark Wizard,' and new 'Beef.'

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Now Playing: Ben Wheatley's NORMAL, LEE CRONIN'S THE MUMMY

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 11:02:11 -0500

Plus: 'Erupcja,' 'Marama,' 'Mile End Kicks,' 'Amrun,' 'Ballistic,' 'Mother Mary,' 'Mad Bills to Pay,' ''The Whistler,' 'Blue Heron.'

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Friday One Sheet: KINDERGARTEN

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:02:10 -0500

The poster for this Quebec observational documentary on early childhood, through the titular jardin d'enfants (kindergarden), has at its centre a whimsical, but dense, illustration from France's Jean Millard. His work in watercolor and gouache (a water-based, opaque paint known for its matte, velvety finish) aims to create infinite worlds open to all. The typeface is clear and clean, leaving the eyes to wander through the secret garden, even as the title seems to be wrapped up in it. The poster is framed, as it were, with the credit block, further adding to the seek-and-find element of the design. The pastel gradient through the illustration feels a bit like a sunrise, which is the metaphor of this earliest phase of life. Kindergarten is structured to follow the gradual...

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Calgary Underground 2026: Curtain Raiser

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:32:20 -0500

Growing considerably over the last five years, the Calgary Underground Film Festival (CUFF) has been continuing its mission as a fan-focused festival. Simultaneously, it has steadily increased the number of Canadian and International talents converging on the city for 11 days of socializing and cinema with its subversive curation. It is second only to Montreal's Fantasia for this kind of smorgasbord of genre programming in Canada. CUFF, in its 23rd year, has become the de facto gateway to offbeat cinema oddities for Canada’s mid-west. A mixture of documentary and fiction features from the festival circuit that would not otherwise grace screens in this part of the country, it is a showcase and launch pad for the work of Alberta talent, and industry gathering. Every year, the...

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Director in Focus: Pete Ohs' Delightful Curiosities, From I SEND YOU THIS PLACE to ERUPCJA

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:02:12 -0500

The multi-hyphenate indie filmmaker continues to stir the imagination.

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Echoes: Selling a Movie That Doesn't Exist Yet

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 01:02:01 -0500

After writer/director James Gunn and producer Peter Safran were appointed as the new co-heads of DC Studios in November 2022, plans for the studio's rebooted slate began to take shape, with details about upcoming projects gradually emerging. In 2023, it was announced that Andy Muschietti, known for directing the It films and series, would helm The Brave and the Bold. It's 2026 now, and the film still hasn't entered the production phase yet, though The Hollywood Reporter confirmed this past January that Muschietti was still attached to the project, with Christina Hodson (The Flash) tapped to write. Even so, the film has the power to influence people with its waiting time, as DC fans cannot hold their excitement. It will be the first DC film...

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Opening This Week: Ben Wheatley's NORMAL, David Lowery's MOTHER MARY, and LEE CRONIN'S THE MUMMY Lead the Genre Pack

Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:02:12 -0500

Plus: 'Erupjca,' 'Ballistic,' 'Mile End Kicks,' 'Amrun,' 'Mad Bills to Pay,' and more.

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Sound and Vision: Edgar Wright

Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:00:01 -0500

In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at selected music videos by Edgar Wright. Somehow it is a wonder that Edgar Wright has never done a full blown animation feature, nor a full-on traditional musical, especially when looking at his music video output. In his early and recent music video work, he fully embraces animation as a medium, and the musical as a genre, sometimes mixing both to great effect. One of his early music videos is one of two he made for Charlotte Hatherley. I want to single out Bastardo (see below), where he uses minimal animation and the now somewhat archaic medium of photographed comic books. Bastardo shows the...

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Now Playing: FACES OF DEATH, EXIT 8, CHAO, and More

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:02:12 -0500

Also: 'The Christophers,' ''The Travel Companion,' 'Mermaid,' 'Hamlet,' 'The Yeti,' 'Infiltrate.'

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Now Streaming: THE TESTAMENTS Rekindles Teen Fires, THE BOYS Remains Outrageously Bloody

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:02:11 -0500

Plus more new series: 'Dangerous Truth' and 'The Miniature Wife.'

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Friday One Sheet: IL DIO DELLAMORE

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:00:05 -0500

Francesco Lagi's Il Dio Dell'amore weaves together the lives of several characters dealing with complicated relationships, hidden desires, and fragile emotional balances, in the fashion of Short Cuts or Magnolia. The film gets a classical, handsome piece of key art from Italian design-house, Twinpix. A distressed five colour design, with a Polaroid-style matte-ing design. There is ample white space, and the edges of the wings bleeding out in complementary colours. All sorts of small details add up to a greater whole: the absolutely perfect placement of a studio laurel, the small bit of text of the distribution company at the top, and the above the line talent at the bottom. No credit block though. (boo-urns!) I love the lighting and the shadow of the hand touching the...

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Director in Focus: Steven Soderbergh's Silky Smooth Charms, From BUBBLE to THE CHRISTOPHERS

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:02:12 -0500

The director continues to assert his stylish independence with deceptively mainstream films and television series.

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Echoes: Why Are AI-Driven Films Being Proposed as Any Kind of Solution in Pakistan?

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:02:12 -0500

Facing a lack of funding and infrastructure, why has the Pakistani entertainment industry turned to AI?

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New Directors/New Films 2026 Preview: STRANGE RIVER, TWO SEASONS, TWO STRANGERS, and More

Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:02:01 -0500

Presented by Film at Lincoln Center and The Museum of Modern Art, the 55th edition of New Directors/New Films takes place from April 8 through April 19, 2026, with filmmakers scheduled to attend in person. With a focus on innovative cinema that sets the stage for the future of film, the festival champions filmmakers with distinctive visions and bold new ideas that push the art form into new terrain. This year’s selection will introduce 24 features and 10 shorts, including festival winners and favorites from Cannes, Sundance, Locarno, Venice, Berlinale, Rotterdam, Toronto, San Sebastián, and more. Screenings take place at FLC’s Walter Reade Theater and MoMA’s Titus theaters. Below are some of the films I had a privilege to preview:...

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Opening This Week: FACES OF DEATH Goes Digital, THE CHRISTOPHERS Confronts Art, CHAO Gets Romantic

Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:02:12 -0500

Plus: 'Mermaid,' 'Hamlet,' 'The Yeti,' 'Infiltrate.'

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Friday One Sheet: BACKROOMS

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 10:02:10 -0500

One of a pair of character posters for Kane Parson's upcoming, creepy-pasta meets liminal terror horror film, Backrooms, that places Academy Award-nominated actors into some unorthodox and tight framing. The original poster for the big-screen blow up of the YouTube series of mystery-box meets by way of found footage viral videos with a dedicated cult following, perhaps leaned too far and too clean into negative space, to the point of being novel, but rather boring. This one, which has more texture, more grain, and a distressed Renate Reinsve, with unkempt hair, fingernails of unequal length, pushed into the sickly yellow wallpaper that is the hallmark of the series, is a far better use of said negative space, and you feel the negative here more fulsome, more...

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Echoes: Why Found-Footage Horror Is Making a Comeback. Could PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 8 Lead It Further?

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 01:02:12 -0500

As the Paranormal Activity series prepares to return with a new installment next year, and the remake of the 1978 "Mondo" faux-documentary Faces of Death is set to drop in April, the found-footage genre seems to be having its moment now. At least 13 found-footage horror movies are lined up for 2026 and beyond. The found-footage horror genre began booming in the late 1990s with The Blair Witch Project (1999) and continued through the late 2000s, fueled by the success of Paranormal Activity (2007) and Cloverfield (2008). The first-person cinematography, with shaky camerawork and low-quality footage, might have looked amateurish, but it proved to have a massive fanbase, showing that nonlinear storytelling can succeed rather than fail. High-profile indie hits and hybrid films like Shelby...

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