Uyen An stars in a broad comedy, directed by Vu Ngoc Dang, a box office hit in its native Vietnam.
Megan Northam stars in a science fiction drama by writer/director Jérémy Clapin (‘I Lost My Body’).
Thank you for reading the title of the article all the way through. Scroll down below to check out the trailer for Brian Babarik’s psychological thriller, Do Not Open. It’s going out next week on in-demand and digital platforms, on November 12th. After arguing with her parents a distraught teen opens an email promising acceptance, but what the message delivers infects the whole family. Johanna Smitz, Kian Lawson-Khalili, Tomas Engström and Noëlle Gutierrez star. Entertainment Squad’s genre label The Horror Collective has just released the creepy new trailer for DO NOT OPEN, a psychological thriller that exposes the terrifying consequences of our modern obsession with technology. The film, written & directed by Brian Babarik, is set to hit in-demand and digital platforms…
After foiling a good ol’ fashioned stickup in the gold bust town of Red Ridge, Texas, the town sheriff jails a mysterious stranger suspected of ties to the gang of outlaws terrorizing residents. But as the sheriff draws closer to unraveling the bandits’ identities, ghosts of murdered townspeople begin appearing at his door, leaving him to question whether the spirits are warning him…or seeking vengeance for his own failure to protect them. Well GO USA have given us the trailer exclusive for the indie Western, Ghosts of Red Ridge, to share with you this morning. The feature film debut of Stefan Colson will hit DVD and Blu-ray on December 17th. Ghosts of Red Ridge – a gritty, action-packed western with themes of redemption,…
“A great deal of this actually happened,” states one of the many opening text cards in Stockholm Bloodbath. This is after giving us the exposition that the Danish King Kristian II has placed himself in Sweden to settle some political issues, and this is putting it kindly. In 1502, the world was still feral, and acted as such, kings leading the way into idiocy and violence in the name of heresy. The “great deal” quote lets us know that the film will be taking liberties in the name of artistic license, and that’s fine. In the initial set up of the Swedish wedding, the Danes declare the Swedes treasonous for having dared to call out a particularly bad apple. The Danes attack and kill most…
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week: several music videos by Jacques Audiard. Jacques Audiard’s newest film, Emilia Pérez will be released this week in cinemas and soon on Netflix. A darling at the Cannes Film Festival, and a probable oscar-contender, the film might seem like an odd fit for Audiard, since it’s a full blown musical. But while Audiard is mostly known for his gritty humanist dramas, like Dheepan, Un Prophéte (A Prophet), De Rouille et d’Os (Rust and Bone) and De Battre Mon Coeur s’Est Arrêté (The Beat That My Heart Skipped), there has been a droll sense of humor to his films before (The Sisters Brothers), some magical realist touches…
Here at ScreenAnarchy, and indeed in this column, we have a few choice distributors whose works keep popping up. Criterion, Anime Limited, Severin, Arrow, Second Sight, Curzon and several crazy Germans and French ones manage to regularly raise our eyebrows. But there is also StudioCanal, and while they don’t always go crazy with their releases, when they DO, it’s good enough to keep an eye on them. Take their recent 4K-UHD / Blu-ray Limited Edition combo release of Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation, a surveillance thriller from 1974 starring Gene Hackman and featuring supporting roles for Frederick Forrest and a very young Harrison Ford (as a gay adversary, no less). It’s got bells and whistles, a ton of on-disc extras, and it is an edition…
How do you capture the essence of Donald Trump? In this case, by capturing an underexposed, pivotal period in his life. The period from 1970 to 1980, when Donald Trump was shaped by his relationship with lawyer Roy Cohn. Or perhaps one should say could have been shaped. After all, the film is fiction, and the story suggests how it might have been. But the portrayal remains close to the reality of the time when Trump was about thirty years old. It is the time when he breaks away from his father and is taken under the wing of lawyer Cohn. Cohn had and maintained a reputation as a tough, ruthless lawyer who would stop at nothing to win. He saw something in the young…
Boaz Yakin’s Once Again (For the Very First Time) signals something of a rebirth. In it’s opening moments, the protagonist falls from the heavens with bloodied clothing and lands on the doorstep of his love interest. He is a street dancer named DeRay, she’s a slam poet called Naim. They express themselves and their love through their art, him with his body, she with her words. What unfolds is a story of creation and destruction, love and death, God and humanity, told through the blending of stylistically daring film scenes that put dance and poetry front and center. It is a far cry from films like Fresh, Remember The Titans and Uptown Girls, the sort of work that filmmaker Yakin became best known for. Still,…