After the death of her sister, a woman is visited by a man looking to solve a series of murders by a motorcycle riding maniac.
I will not say too much in this column on the passing of cinematic master and icon, David Lynch, as there will be more on the subject to follow in the coming days. Few filmmakers left a more lasting impression on my generation (GenX) than he did between his challenging (and unapologetically weird) television and film work. And like all great American things (from baseball to whiskey to thrash metal) David Lynch was big in Japan. As a tribute to all things David Lynch, I present three Japanese posters, and one that was the subject of a previous column, by American designer Sean Longmore, a Fire Walk With Me one sheet that was a fusion of Japanese genre collage, and The UK’s Hammer Horror. Enjoy….
Goddamn, this looks really, really fun. Osgood Perkins’ new film, The Monkey, arrives next month on February 21st, and with every new look sent out way we are getting more and more excited. The official trailer has arrived and we get a bit more of the story, and a look at more of the kills. They are going to be glorious. They are like… little Rube Goldberg machines, of death! When twin brothers find a mysterious wind-up monkey, a series of outrageous deaths tear their family apart. Twenty-five years later, the monkey begins a new killing spree forcing the estranged brothers to confront the cursed toy. Based on the Stephen King short story, and produced by James Wan (The Conjuring, Saw),…
The Criterion Collection’s recent announcement of its April 2025 slate stirred up controversy across social networks and the internet at large, due entirely to the eye-catching cover of Sean Baker’s Anora (2024), a tip of the hat to a pose captured in an image for Jess Franco’s Vampyros Lesbos (1971). Be that as it may, my personal reaction centered entirely around the forthcoming release of Wong Kar-wai’s Chungking Express (1994), a film that electrified me when I first saw it in the late 90s on videotape, and then again on DVD, and then again on a film print at the Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles a few years later. Featuring a “4K digital restoration, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack, both supervised and approved…
Sammo Hung, Akira Kurosawa, and the Coen Brothers all get new releases from Criterion!
A man struggling in a strained marriage strikes out into the woods with his wife and daughter on a mission to reclaim a family farm and perhaps repair his relationship, but instead finds himself tangling with a vicious, primordial – but familiar – foe in Leigh Whannell’s update of the classic Universal horror, Wolf Man. After his 2020 interpretation of Invisible Man managed to what 2017’s big-budget abomination The Mummy could not in reinvigorating the classic Universal monster movies, Leigh Whannell is back with Wolf Man. Transporting the action from Wales to the Pacific Northwest, Wolf Man borrows enough elements of the 1941 classic to keep it recognizable, but leans heavily on modern isolation trauma to keep things prescient. Blake (Christopher Abbott) grew up with…
Arguably the best series that Marvel has ever made for streaming was the original Daredevil show distributed by Netflix at the time. Matt Murdock is back in a new series and a new home over at Disney+ this March, Daredevil Born Again. Playing the titular character Murdock reunites with Wilson Fisk (Vincent D’Onofrio) and Punisher (Jon Bernthal). Of particular interest to the Anarchist family is the continued involvement of Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson in the Marvel Universe. Once indie sci-fi darlings, Daredevil Born Again is the third series the pair have worked on with Marvel, after Moon Knight and Loki. They are also executive producers on this series as well. Bills are getting paid! The first trailer for the new series arrived…
Normally around this time of January I give an overview of impressions I got in the previous year. Why me? What makes me so special? Well… sometimes, in the past, I actually hadn’t seen enough films to properly participate in the regular “Top 10” list but still wanted to talk about a few. So I started writing about six things, which made me remember eight, then I realized I could actually do ten anyway, and then decided to add two things I wanted to say as well. I published a ‘dozen of musings’ (for lack of a better title) and the practice stuck. This year, as I’m finishing the twelve bullets below, it strikes me that I wrote the first of these exactly a decade…
A new poster and BTS featurette have come up for Ke Huy Quan’s action romance, Love Hurts. Directed by JoJo Eusebio – here making their feature film debut – and produced by 87North’s Kelly McCormick and David Leitch this is looking more and more like a good old fashioned throwback to the golden age HK-era action films from Jackie Chan. Have a look at the clip below and tell us you disagree. Then we will tell you that you are wrong. The use of space and deflection in the action. The use of every day props as well. Come on, that screams 80s and 90s Jackie Chan. No matter how hard you try, you can’t break up with your past. This…