Screen Anarchy

The experience of watching Anora is akin to a spontaneous and unexpected invite to a epic house-wrecking party. It starts off with surprise and wonder, plunges into drunken euphoria, loses all your friends, projectile vomits on you in a car ride around town, lands you in court after dawn, and eventually, a stranger dumps you, broken, at your doorstep. Maybe the experience leaves a silver-lining, where you learn to never do that again. These are not plot spoilers. They are the inevitabilities of maturing into an adult human. Not all of us make it through the ringer. Sean Baker’s Palme D’Or winner at one point name-checks Cinderella. Its visual language and layered bedlam evoke a re-envisioning of Pretty Woman (or perhaps more interestingly the 0.01% of Eyes Wide Shut) by…

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We are pleased to premiere the brand new poster for the documentary film The In Between, the debut feature by Robie and Alejandro Flores/ The film had its successful world premiere at SXSW earlier this year and is traveling non-stop on the international film circuit. Recent and future festival gigs include New Orleans, New York Latino, Munich, Vancouver, Morelia, and Monterey, before its broadcast premiere on PBS’ Independent Lens in the winter 2025. Per the official description, The In Between “is a lyrical and personal documentary essay about finding joy in the aftermath of grief, and a nuanced and unexpected portrait of the US/Mexico border.” I watched and reviewed the film during SXSW, and was mighty impressed. As I wrote at the time: “Robie Flores…

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We are very pleased to premiere the trailer for a new Mexican folk horror film called A Fisherman’s Tale (Un cuento de pescadores). This is the new film from Edgar Nito the director of the Tribeca hit, The Gasoline Thieves. This time, with one of their co-writers from that first film, Alfredo Mendoza, they are exploring the legend of La Miringua.    A Fisherman’s Tale is the cinematic adaptation of a Purépecha legend that is passed down by word of mouth in the lake areas of Central Mexico. It tells the story of a spirit that takes the form of a woman to attract fishermen to the depths of the lake, where it bewitches them. La Miringua, whose name means forgetting or forgetting, confuses people, making them…

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Spooky season here in Canada does not have to end on November 1st. If you’re still looking for some post-Halloween chills and thrills then look no further than the second season of the horror anthology series, Creepy Bits. Season two is upon us and will debut on Hollywood Suite on November 19th and we have your first look at the season two trailer.    Led by David J. Fernandes, the local filmmaker has gathered together more of Eastern Canada’s rising talent for this second season. Local talent from here in Toronto includes Ashlea Wessel (whom we have written about on many an occasion here), Adrian Bobb and Kelly Paoli. They imported Sid Zanforlin over from Montreal. I can vouch for him, he’s one cool cat. …

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Plus: ‘Winchester ’73.’

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The first official teaser for Osgood Perkins’ The Monkey, based off of the short story by Stephen King, is here. As expected, it kind of kills, literally and figuratively.   When twin brothers Bill and Hal find their father’s old monkey toy in the attic, a series of gruesome deaths start. The siblings decide to throw the toy away and move on with their lives, growing apart over the years.   By now, we’ve come to develop expectations when it comes to Perkins’ films. They’re expertly photographed, this time employing Mexican cinetmatographer Nico Aguilar whose docket includes some work on Scorcese’s Killer of the Flower Moon.    They also promise to be highly disturbing as this red band teaser promises. For crying out loud, Theo…

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Sour Party follows Gwen and James, two broke, flailing 30-somethings on a quest to scrounge money from a collection of low lives and failed artists in an attempt to show up to Gwen’s sister’s baby shower with a proper gift.

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A philanderer is lured into a kinky encounter by a provocative woman, only to discover she has undergone gender reassignment and was once the boy he terrorized in high school.   Anthony Repinski’s horror thriller Heather will release on digital platforms on November 8th from Buffalo 8. We have been asked to premiere the trailer for the pic today. Check it out along with a small batch of still down below.    This transgendered-themed thriller is loosely inspired by a story told to Writer/Director Anthony Repinski by a friend who was bullied in high school.  She later transitioned and then was reunited with her bully, who ended up becoming her lover.   HEATHER was written and directed by Anthony Repinsky (A former SEAL Team 6 Chief and…

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Like many Canadians (and others who live in a colder climate), I often dream – at least fleetingly – about hibernating for the winter, like our bear brethren. Sleeping away those colder months, and reawakening with the earth as it begins its spring cycle. What would human culture and society be like? How would our stories and daily lives change? Filmmaker and artist Anna Cornudella Castro imagines just such a world in The Human Hibernation. An experiment that became an art installation that became a film, it’s part slow cinema, part faux documentary, following a small group of these humans and understanding what would change in the rhythms of life. In this world where humans sleep in the three months of winter, a boy awakes…

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I saw Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s (Pulse, Cure) latest film, Cloud, at the 44th annual Hawaii International Film Festival, and man, am I perplexed. I love Pulse (Kairo) and I wanted to love Cloud, but I can’t even figure out what the title alludes to; an Internet kind of cloud? The clouds in the sunset at the end of the film? No idea, friend. Bear with me as I attempt to unravel my thoughts on this film, as it’s not an easy one to parse, and it feels like a few disparate genres and pieces. The logline: Yoshii, a young man who resells goods online, finds himself at the center of a series of mysterious events that put his life at risk. When the film begins, Ryosuke…

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