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SPIRIT TASTING: WNUF HALLOWEEN SPECIAL Creator Announces New Film and US Roadshow

dlvr.itSPIRIT TASTING: WNUF HALLOWEEN SPECIAL Creator Announces New Film and US RoadshowWhat did you do for your 40th birthday? Chris LaMartina, director of WNUF Halloween Special, celebrated turning 40 by making a horror-comedy called Spirit Tasting. The movie deals with mid-life anxieties, but the real story is how it was made.   Most movies take months to shoot. LaMartina filmed this one in four days on a $40,000 budget. He was inspired by low-budget legend Roger Corman, who famously shot classics like The Little Shop of Horrors in less than a week. LaMartina wanted to prove he could still pull off that kind of fast, DIY filmmaking.   Filming a movie in 96 hours took a dedicated crew. LaMartina directed, edited, and co-wrote the script with Michael Varrati. The production team also included Melissa LaMartina, Ted... [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Guillermo del Toro's Glory, FRANKENSTEIN 4K Review

dlvr.itGuillermo del Toro's Glory, FRANKENSTEIN 4K ReviewFrankenstein has always been Guillermo del Toro’s white whale, as anyone following and paying attention to the director, knows, and we’re big fans of GDT here at ScreenAnarchy. (See Kurt’s original festival review out of TIFF here and one of our signature, team capsule collection of thoughts here.) I don’t have a ton of love for Netflix these last few years, but financing this Gothic opera with a focus on family melodrama is one of the best decisions any studio has made in the last decade, at least. Thankfully, they’ve also made the rare choice to unleash one of their films on physical media, and Frankenstein is out now from the Criterion Collection in your choice of Blu-ray, DVD, or a 4K/Blu-ray combo release, which... [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Echoes: What Does a 13-Minute Oscar-Qualifying Short Film Mean for Pakistan's Short Film Industry?

dlvr.itEchoes: What Does a 13-Minute Oscar-Qualifying Short Film Mean for Pakistan's Short Film Industry?I've talked at length about how the Pakistani film industry has always suffered from limited resources, lack of funding, and insufficient training for newcomers, but time and again, a short film has proven that Lollywood can shine through, no matter the challenges. Dawn Images reported that Kamran Faiq's short film The Last Glance has officially qualified for the 2028 Academy Awards after earning a Jury Award for Best Short at the 21st Tasveer Film Festival. The festival was held from October 13 to 18. The film also managed to take home the Best International Short Film award at the Mosaic International South Asian Film Festival in Canada. According to Faiq, it is the "only film" that has successfully qualified in the short film category, but... [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Sound And Vision: Lance Oppenheim

dlvr.itSound And Vision: Lance OppenheimIn the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at Phoebe Bridger's Lost Boys, directed by Lance Oppenheim. Lance Oppenheim currently is the most buzzy name in film, thanks to his one-two-punch of Primetime and You Can See Everything. While a few months ago people predicted Oscar buzz for the former, a film about To Catch A Predator-presenter Chris Hansen, it turns out that the latter, just announced a few months ago, is actually the main ticket for a golden statue for Oppenheim. The documentary, in which comedian Nathan Fielder, together with Oppenheim investigates, and gets access to the life of well known alleged fraudster Elizabeth Holmes, has the whole world talking.... [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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GHOST IN THE CELL Review: Joko Anwar's Prison-Set Horror Comedy is a Gory Riot. On Digital Tomorrow

dlvr.itGHOST IN THE CELL Review: Joko Anwar's Prison-Set Horror Comedy is a Gory Riot. On Digital TomorrowDimas, an investigative reporter from Jakarta, is trying to finish an edit on a deforestation expose when he is framed for his editor's horrific murder and tossed into prison. He ends up in the rough Cell Block C, where he gets taken in by Anggoro, a respected convict who spends half his time in solitary for protecting fellow prisoners.   Anggoro runs with a tight, weird crew of social outcasts. They include Six, an inmate who claims he can see spirits (this is important), alongside a low-key smart former professor, a religious man, and a con artist. They are all just trying to get by without drawing the attention of the incarcerated hitman, Tokek.     Things get messy fast (and by messy we mean... [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Fund This: A SHINY NEW WORLD Feature Film!

dlvr.itFund This: A SHINY NEW WORLD Feature Film!Cabins in the woods, they attract trouble and stupid people. Just watch any Evil Dead movie and you can see just how messy things can get. And when things get messy... you need a cleaning crew that's fit for the job. Professionals who don't faint over finding a limb or two, or from having to mop up a splattered brain. This was the idea behind Jan van Gorkum's Dutch horror comedy short Shiny New World from five years ago. Basically a recruitment video for a "demon-summoning-aftermath cleaning company", it showed a day in the life of Barry, one of the senior cleaners. You also got to see some very impressive creature effects due to make up wizard Stephan Vos. The short played at over 80... [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Camera Japan Rotterdam 2026 Review: THE OBSESSED

dlvr.itCamera Japan Rotterdam 2026 Review: THE OBSESSEDDirector Takahashi Wataru may not be a household name yet among anime fans, but the man has built an impressive resumee already. An assistant to Miyazaki at Studio Ghibli, he was one of the people working on the change from traditional animation to digital, doing the actual camera shots, the compositing, and later moving to CGI, working on such classics as Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle. He did storyboards for several Crayon Shin-chan films and directed four of those himself. Last year he made an anime version of a very popular novel by Ishii Shinji called Obsessed Man, released here with the title The Obsessed, about a man called Guiseppe, who constantly becomes obsessed with a new subjects. In Japan, the novel... [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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RECLUSE: Vertical Snags North American Rights to Henry Chaisson's Festival Hit

dlvr.itRECLUSE: Vertical Snags North American Rights to Henry Chaisson's Festival HitVertical has officially landed the North American rights to Recluse, the buzzy psychological horror film from writer/director Henry Chaisson and veteran genre producer Steven Schneider.   Fresh off a stellar festival run with strong critical and audience reactions at Tribeca, Fantasia, and FrightFest, the atmospheric thriller has locked in a theatrical release for the first half of 2027.    Recluse stars Sasha Frolova as a young woman digging into her family's dark, tragic history through a series of mysterious audio recordings. The film also stars Xander Berkeley, Toby Poser, Mia Vallet, Kimball Farley, and Frankie Seratch.   We caught Recluse when it played at Fantasia this past Summer and were quite taken by it.    Recluse establishes Henry Chaisson as a double-threat auteur in the... [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Morbido 2026: Alumni Returns, Sitges Winners, and Uncut Cult Classics Stack the Lineup

dlvr.itMorbido 2026: Alumni Returns, Sitges Winners, and Uncut Cult Classics Stack the LineupOur amiges y familia at Morbido have revealed the lineup for this year's festival. Typically a highlight of our year - until frickin' life got in the way! - we would always be down in CDMX every Halloween season to hang out with our friends and guest filmmakers in attendance. We miss it dearly but will not miss out the opportunity to promote the festival and its always amazing programming.    The festival artwork has always been a highlight each year - we have some from our visits framed and up on our walls. This year’s official poster centers around Mictlantecuhtli, the Aztec god of death. Because the festival aligns with Day of the Dead, Mórbido brought in Mexico City artist Marcos Castro to design... [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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KEN RUSSELL'S THE DEVILS Review: One of 2026's Best Films Was Released in 1971

dlvr.itKEN RUSSELL'S THE DEVILS Review: One of 2026's Best Films Was Released in 1971Uncensored, restored, and rereleased, filmmaker Ken Russell’s The Devils, a controversy-courting masterpiece of religious horror, repression, and persecution, returns for a limited theatrical run under the auspices of Warner Bros. and its Clockwork specialty film division.   Condemned in 1971 for its supposed blasphemous themes, prolonged onscreen nudity, and depictions of sadomasochistic torture, The Devils was — and remains — far more than mere provocation aimed at offending reactionary moviegoers or right-wing cultural critics.   Even now, conservative Catholics will likely take offense at Russell's (Altered States, Tommy, Women in Love) masterpiece. That alone makes The Devils essential viewing, as vital today as it was 55 years ago.   For Urbain Grandier (Oliver Reed), a 17th-century  Roman Catholic priest, celibacy, one of the  Catholic priesthood's key vows,... [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Chicago 2026 Interview: THE SPIRAL Writer/Director Paolo Strippoli on the Nobility of Horror and Cinema's Need for Excess

dlvr.itChicago 2026 Interview: THE SPIRAL Writer/Director Paolo Strippoli on the Nobility of Horror and Cinema's Need for ExcessIn his review of Paolo Strippoli's new film The Spiral, Martin Tsai writes about how the film presents a "recognizable family drama" that is ruptured by "horror [that] feel[s] like a violation of the film's carefully cultivated normality." In fact, at one point Martin uses the same word Strippoli used in a conversation I had with him at the 62nd Chicago International Film Festival: "incursion." It's a remarkable instance of a filmmaker's stated intention landing perfectly. And it's not the only instance of it in The Spiral that Strippoli and I discussed. From Saw and zombie film references to casting the perfect person to balance complex tone, Strippoli highlighted several choices that went into communicating exactly what he wanted to an audience. We also talked... [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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A TALENT FOR MURDER Review: Mirren and Ehrenreich Elevate an Otherwise Middling Psychological Thriller

dlvr.itA TALENT FOR MURDER Review: Mirren and Ehrenreich Elevate an Otherwise Middling Psychological ThrillerOver five decades, Patricia Highsmith wrote 22 novels and numerous short stories.   Of those singular works, seven stand out in the popular imagination: the five Ripley-centered novels, Strangers on a Train (published in 1950 and adapted by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951 into a noir classic co-starring Farley Granger and Robert Walker), and The Price of Salt (aka Carol), written under a pseudonym and published in 1952.   Despite other work and additional successes, longtime Highsmith fans and, thus, publishers, hoped Ripley would return for a sixth, final novel. She never did. Highsmith passed away in 1995 after a lengthy battle with cancer and other chronic ailments.   While Highsmith’s history as a racist, antisemite, and all-around misanthrope has been well documented, she remains among the... [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Friday One Sheet: THE PRESTIGE @ 20

dlvr.itFriday One Sheet: THE PRESTIGE @ 20Arguably Christopher Nolan's best film, The Prestige returns to the biggest of screens, blown up from its gorgeous 35mm photography to screen via 70mm and IMAX presentations. Long saddled with bland, quite poor marketing and key art, and oddly released against another movie about the magic at the tail end of the Victorian Era, the inferior and rightly forgotten The Illusionist (not to be further confused with Sylvain Chomet's amazing animated film of the same name that would follow a few years later.) The below design, a misty Colorado Springs night with Nikola Tesla's wireless electricity illuminating both the hillside and what is possible, goes a considerable way to offer a better One Sheet for the The Prestige. Better late than never. Making good use of vertical text... [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Chicago 2026 Review: NO REST FOR THE WICKED, Beautiful Genre Mashup Queer Romance

dlvr.itChicago 2026 Review: NO REST FOR THE WICKED, Beautiful Genre Mashup Queer RomanceFor almost the first half of No Rest for the Wicked, the only thing marking it as a genre movie is its score, full of ominous electronic drones and sharp strings. The look, with foreboding aerial shots of the Faroe islands' craggy mountains and almost only natural lighting for night scenes, is also a hint; it just seems rude to think that non-genre films aren't capable of this level of literal darkness. Suffice to say that it looks and sounds like a genre film. But the content of its early scenes undercuts the sense of dread its aural and visual world conjures. Perhaps more than dread, the literal and metaphorical darkness are meant to clue us into how stuck protagonist Baldur (Egor Venned) feels on... [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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SNAPSHOT: Dark Star Pictures Picks up Unique Victorian Era Found-Footage Horror

dlvr.itSNAPSHOT: Dark Star Pictures Picks up Unique Victorian Era Found-Footage HorrorDark Star Pictures just picked up North American rights for Snapshot, a unique Victorian found-footage horror movie from British director Joseph Archer that lands in theatres spring 2027 before hitting digital.   Set during the 1888 Jack the Ripper murders, the story follows an inventor tracking an all-female ghost-hunting crew who believe the killer is a monster, using a distinct 1:1 aspect ratio and pinhole camera style to mirror the era's sensationalized news.   Starring Tom Stourton, the film is already building momentum from spots at Edinburgh and Frightfest alongside a BIFA longlist nomination. The full announcement follows, along with a clip and some stills and the poster.    Word is, Snapshot flips the found-footage script by ditching modern cameras for 1888 London and a... [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Grimmfest 2026: NEVER AFTER DARK, CRAWLERS, and STRONGER THAN THE DEVIL Lead the Grimm Reaper Award Winners

dlvr.itGrimmfest 2026: NEVER AFTER DARK, CRAWLERS, and STRONGER THAN THE DEVIL Lead the Grimm Reaper Award WinnersGrimmfest just wrapped its 18th anniversary run at the Odeon Great Northern in Manchester, and the team handed out this year's Grimm Reaper Awards. From October 8–11, the four-day fest loaded its screens with a massive block of world, international, and UK premieres. The official industry jury had the tough job of picking winners from a global stack of indies, finally locking in their choices for everything from standout acting and practical gore to sharp directing and pure DIY hustle.   The 2026 Grimmfest awards and special mentions recognized an international lineup of genre films, led by Never After Dark (Best Feature Film, joint Best Scare, and a special mention for Best Editing) and Crawlers, which secured the Audience Award alongside special mentions for Best... [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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CLAYFACE Review: Newly Revived DCU Saves Its Best for Third

dlvr.itCLAYFACE Review: Newly Revived DCU Saves Its Best for ThirdRanked by one supposedly well-respected site as only the 73rd “best” Batman villain, Clayface’s journey from the comic book panel to the big screen has taken a long, not quite circuitous route. Thanks to horror auteur Mike Flanagan (The Fall of the House of Usher, Midnight Mass, The Haunting of Hill House), a longtime fan of the DC character and his multiple iterations, including the two-part “Feat of Clay” origin story featured on Batman: The Animated Series, James Gunn, the current co-lead of DC’s film division, became intrigued by Flanagan’s unexpected pitch for a standalone live-action film for the DC character.  Unfortunately, Flanagan’s numerous commitments, including the recent Carrie series for Amazon's  Prime Video and next year’s The Exorcist: Martyrs, removed him from consideration as... [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Brooklyn Horror 2026 Review: POSTHUMOUS, Tapes from the Darkside

dlvr.itBrooklyn Horror 2026 Review: POSTHUMOUS, Tapes from the DarksideThroughout the years, such films as Wolf Creek, The Babadook, The Loved Ones, Lake Mungo, Talk to Me, and many others collectively contributed to turning the audience into a proverbial Pavlov’s dog: A new Australian horror movie is always a reason to get immediately excited. This year, Brooklyn Horror Film Festival features two such films in the program. One is the festival’s Closing Night Film, Kick On, which has already received its share of much-deserved praise since premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival. The other one is Posthumous, Josh Tanner's debut feature, which also helps to uphold the reputation of Australian horror canon. Zoe (Sophie Lowe) comes back to her childhood home in hopes of dealing with some personal stuff. This journey is stalled... [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Brooklyn Horror 2026 Review: ERIE, Debut Found Footage Horror Overcomplicates Its Own Style

dlvr.itBrooklyn Horror 2026 Review: ERIE, Debut Found Footage Horror Overcomplicates Its Own StyleIn the late 1990s, the city of Erie, Pennsylvania, experiences an epidemic of inexplicable deaths. One of the victims is Iris Scott (Aimee Paxton), whose strange death in the woods is eventually ruled a suicide, like most of the other cases. Her sister, Stella (Carly Stewart), isn’t content with the explanation and, having discovered that Iris isn’t the only one, wants to dig deeper, roping their brother Oscar (Grant Crater) into her investigation. An aspiring journalist, Stella plans to tape the process and all potential findings in hopes that it might advance her career. As the title card at the start of the film informs us, these tapes will be later found in the possession of one of the deceased. Erie, which premiered at Beyond... [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Brooklyn Horror 2026 Review: SLAY, Witty Tribute to Classic Slashers

dlvr.itBrooklyn Horror 2026 Review: SLAY, Witty Tribute to Classic SlashersWhile AI obviously (and rightfully) suppressed pretty much all other dangers to humanity as the villain of our times, the rabbit hole that is social media and influencer culture is still too great a fodder for filmmakers to pass up. The paradoxical nature of this bubble, inhabited by people whom we call “content creators”, but who mostly produce something entirely ephemeral, is great material to have all kinds of fun with. Which is exactly what Kyra Elise Gardner’s second feature, Slay, is doing, mixing the digs at the Gen Z-brand of pop culture with classic tropes of the good, old “slice and dice” subgenre. At the center of it all is our influencer final girl – Chloe Cruze (Zoey Luna, who also co-wrote the story... [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Brooklyn Horror 2026 Review: PATHETIC FALLACY, True Big Bold Beautiful Journey

dlvr.itBrooklyn Horror 2026 Review: PATHETIC FALLACY, True Big Bold Beautiful JourneyEvery film festival program, no matter how expansive and diverse, usually has a bunch of movies that objectively aren’t bad, but aren’t particularly great either. When thinking about such films and what might be weighing them down, the conclusion you come to most of the time is that, while often adequately executed, they are simply not original enough to evoke any true feeling. From scene to scene, or sometimes, from frame to frame, you more or less know what to expect next, which traditionally makes it harder to be really excited about anything that happens on screen. Adam Egypt Mortimer’s Pathetic Fallacy, which premiered at Fantastic Fest and was recently shown at the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival at one of their secret screenings, doesn’t have... [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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SLAYGROUND Official Teaser: Jeremy Saulnier Invites You to The Slayground in New Teaser

dlvr.itSLAYGROUND Official Teaser: Jeremy Saulnier Invites You to The Slayground in New TeaserScare-actor "Metal Mike" Graves wakes up in a haunted attraction surrounded by the dead bodies of his co-workers with no memory of how they got there. As a state-wide manhunt closes in, he races to uncover the truth - even if the trail leads straight back to him. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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VIRGINA Review: Boys Do Cry

dlvr.itVIRGINA Review: Boys Do CryWhile not in every culture in human history has elevated male children to the point of all but killing (or even that) their female children, too many have long-held beliefs that boys bring luck and prosperity, whereas girls (despite doing at least half if not more of the work to maintain a society) are a burden. But gender is a social construct, we can't control the weather, and if you decide girls are as important as boys, you might find your society better for it. But this was not the way in some regions of the Balkans, even as recently as the late 19th century, and a disturbing custom is the focus of Virgina, written and directed by Serbian filmmaker Srđan Karanović (Something in Between, A Film Without... [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Toronto After Dark 2026 Short Film Short Review: MOIRA, An Ambiguous European Arthouse Gem

dlvr.itToronto After Dark 2026 Short Film Short Review: MOIRA, An Ambiguous European Arthouse GemA patient shot of a damp London metro platform opens Anastasia Mischenko's superlative short film Moira. It's a shot that instantly evokes the static-adroit Euro-cinema of early 2000s Bruno Dumont, and the more recent work of Milagros Mumenthaler (The Currents). A woman leaves the platform and returns home to discover her partner in the middle of vocal sex. She stands in the threshold of the doorway, not entirely in the house, while the camera holds on her face as she processes the sounds coming from the bedroom upstairs. She leaves and makes her way across London on transit, through bleak, partially-desaturated autumn fields, bricked alleyways, and at one point through the Greenwich foot-tunnel (under the Thames) in all its curved walls and fluorescent lit glory.   The... [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Toronto After Dark 2026 Review: MY LOVE FOR YOU IS DEEP, BUT THE DEVIL LOVES ME DEEPER

dlvr.itToronto After Dark 2026 Review: MY LOVE FOR YOU IS DEEP, BUT THE DEVIL LOVES ME DEEPERTwentysomething Alice is a dreamer. She wants true love, intense love, and reciprocated love. She is not finding it in the clubs with her girlfriend, though, and her current boyfriend is clearly not into her. You can hear it in his voice on the phone before he brutally dumps her in person. But she is young, and attractive, and willing to do anything, including a pact with the Devil, a glowing-eyed man who prefers the booth in the back of the local dive bar, to make this happen with the next fellow who comes along. That would the be tall, dark and slightly dim Luke, a goth-adjacent photographer with a slow manner of speaking and a voice that is a dead ringer for Ryan Gosling.... [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Chicago 2026 Review: A CITY IN THE FOREST, Rallying Cry for the American Left

dlvr.itChicago 2026 Review: A CITY IN THE FOREST, Rallying Cry for the American LeftThroughout A City in the Forest, which tracks various forms of opposition to Atlanta's "Cop City" from 2020 to 2023, the filmmakers shout that they are press to ensure that they are not attacked by police who are violently arresting and assaulting protesters. In two scenes, people being arrested cry out to the filmmakers for help, but they do not engage; remaining as close as they can to capture the cops' violence while doing their best to avoid it themselves. The inclusion of these moments forces us to consider the many forms combatting state violence (against people and the environment) can take, and either question or affirm the importance of documentation as a form of protest in itself. The choice to include what some on... [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Camera Japan Rotterdam 2026 Review: CHIMNEY TOWN: FROZEN IN TIME

dlvr.itCamera Japan Rotterdam 2026 Review: CHIMNEY TOWN: FROZEN IN TIMESix years ago, CGI-special effects specialist Hirota Yuusuke directed his first feature film, the anime Poupelle of Chimney Town, which I happened to like a lot. He just released his second feature, and it is... a sequel to Poupelle of Chimney Town. That first film was based on a series of children's books written by Japanese comedian Nishino Akihiro, and apparently there is plenty more where that came from. Nishino wrote the script for this sequel and helped produce it. The new film is called Chimney Town: Frozen in Time and played at the Camera Japan Festival in Rotterdam and Amsterdam, where I caught up with it. Chimney Town: Frozen in Time takes place some time after the events in Poupelle of Chimney Town. In... [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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ONCE UPON A TIME IN HARLEM Review: Mesmerizing Blast from the Past

dlvr.itONCE UPON A TIME IN HARLEM Review: Mesmerizing Blast from the PastIn 1972, director, editor, producer, and actor William Greaves, whose body of work includes Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968) and Nationtime (1972), gathered the remaining luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance in Duke Ellington’s apartment on 157th. This meeting resulted in four hours of footage but didn’t become a movie – until now. Greaves’s son, David Greaves, was one of four cameramen who were involved in the original shoot. Decades after the fact and years after William Greaves’s passing in 2014, David edited the footage of that meeting, compressing it into an hour and forty minutes of the enthralling whirlwind that is Once Upon a Time in Harlem. Based upon a formal description, it might seem to the audience going in blindly into this film, which was... [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Camera Japan Rotterdam 2026 Review: RHAPSODY, RHAPSODY, A Rom-Com Which Keeps It Real

dlvr.itCamera Japan Rotterdam 2026 Review: RHAPSODY, RHAPSODY, A Rom-Com Which Keeps It RealIt's the question which pops up in any interview with a director: "What will your next film be?" It is so common a question that if the mood allows for it, I will add "A romantic comedy perhaps?" and that will normally get a laugh out of my subject. I mean, if there is ONE genre we all dread, deem stale, or has more idiotic tropes than horror, it's the romantic comedy. Yet, after a hiatus of over 12 years, this is exactly the genre that veteran director Rijū Gō chose to return to cinemas with, with his new film Rhapsody, Rhapsody. And it even opened the Camera Japan festival this year in Rotterdam? Sacrilege! What can this be about? When mild-mannered office worker Mikio... [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Sitges 2026 Review: KICK ON, Aussie Survival Thriller Asks, Et Tu, Brute?

dlvr.itSitges 2026 Review: KICK ON, Aussie Survival Thriller Asks, Et Tu, Brute?Colourful, entertaining, and exuberantly violent, Nick Kozakis’s debut feature makes the most of the geography and the opportunities of its single location to squeeze maximum tension and maximum gore out of its ultra-lean scenario. After running out of coke and molly on their night of hard partying, Eden (Markella Kavenagh) and her friends decide to keep the night going, or "kick on," in Melbourne parlance, by scoring a fresh round of drugs from a local Russian drug lord. They do, sort of, suspect what they are getting into, but at 3am and heavily under the influence, the best decisions are generally avoided. Thus, they come into the orbit of Ray (Nikolai Nikolaeff), the son of said drug lord, who has a swanky penthouse on top of... [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Criterion in January 2027: DELIVERANCE, MIDNIGHT COWBOY, PARASITE

dlvr.itCriterion in January 2027: DELIVERANCE, MIDNIGHT COWBOY, PARASITEIn the new calendar year, the Criterion Collection will take an unforgettable trip down a river. John Boorman directed Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ronny Cox, and Ned Beatty in Deliverance, a harrowing thriller, and one of the best. It's heading our way in January 2027 in a new 4K restoration, packed with extras. Come for the banjos, stay for the squealing. The first X-rated feature to win an Academy Award -- it was later edited for an R-rating -- Midnight Cowboy featured Jon Voight in his star-making role, paired with a grubby Dustin Hoffman -- "I'm walking heah!!" -- in John Schlesinger's portrait of 1960s New York City. It's also coming in a new 4K restoration, the better to see the grit. The third absolute... [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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TRAUMA, OR MONSTERS ALL: Dark Sky Films Announces Release Date For... Larry Fessenden's Rumored Last Film? The Hell!?!

dlvr.itTRAUMA, OR MONSTERS ALL: Dark Sky Films Announces Release Date For... Larry Fessenden's Rumored Last Film? The Hell!?!When a visiting writer publishes an article exposing a quiet upstate town's unsettling past, she accidentally unleashes a werewolf, a vampire, and a Frankenstein monster from the shadows, forcing the community to confront generations of suppressed trauma. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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DEADBOLT: Saban Films Drops Trailer for Home-Invasion Thriller Ahead of November 13 Release

dlvr.itDEADBOLT: Saban Films Drops Trailer for Home-Invasion Thriller Ahead of November 13 ReleaseSaban Films just dropped the trailer for Deadbolt, a home-invasion thriller directed by Zac Coleman. The 76-minute film hits VOD and Digital on November 13, 2026.   The story follows Anne Harrington (played by Callie Deering), who is weighing a run for Congress. She comes home and notices a door is cracked open—one she is certain she locked. Within minutes, she realizes she is trapped in the dark with two violent predators and has to outsmart them to survive the night.   You can look for it on on-demand platforms starting Friday, November 13.... [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Friday One Sheet: HURRICANNA

dlvr.itFriday One Sheet: HURRICANNAFrancesca Gregorini's look at the final days of model, actress, billionaires wife, and eventual celebrity punchline, Anna Nicole Smith, gets the arthouse marketing treatment with this 'slide puzzle' style key art. It features an out-of-focus Sylvia Hoeks as Smith in signature bleach blonde and bright red lipstick and what might be called a 'sad-smile' against the glare of studio back-lights. The blood red typeface of the title is horror film, hinged at 90 degrees so the portmanteau title, Hurricanna, is separated to showcase the word "Anna," and provide a bit of clarity to someone who might glance at the poster in passing. The lower corner has that tiny arthouse-style credit block. The typeface and overall layout design here is particularly good, with the contrast of... [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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HIGH GROUND: Sometimes The Only Way to Get High is to go Higher - Yosemite's Legendary 1976 Drug Plane Mystery

dlvr.itHIGH GROUND: Sometimes The Only Way to Get High is to go Higher - Yosemite's Legendary 1976 Drug Plane MysteryHere is a good one to keep an eye out for, Daniel Sharp’s documentary High Ground.   In December 1976, a plane packed with tons of marijuana crashed into a frozen lake in Yosemite National Park. Park rangers left the wreckage for the winter, but broke climbers from Camp 4 - a historic Yosemite campground that became the legendary, budget-friendly hub for the 1970s counterculture climbing community - braved the snow to salvage the drugs. The incident triggered a massive investigation and became a legendary Yosemite climber myth.   High Ground is going on a theatrical tour next week, starting in California on October 25th and going throughout the western U.S. for the remainder of the year. All dates are listed below the official announcement.    HIGH GROUND LAUNCHES NORTH... [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]