Screen Anarchy

The stop-motion animated comedy The Greatest Surf Movie in the Universe is now playing exclusively in “super rad theaters” thanks to Blue Fox Entertainment. We have an exclusive clip – and the red band trailer – from Blue Fox to share with you today. Check them out down below, if you dare.    The Greatest Surf Movie in the Universe is a raunchy Team America-esque stop-motion puppet / live action hybrid Aussie comedy, narrated on-screen by Luke Hemsworth, and starring some of the world’s best surfers voicing lifelike figurines of themselves, including Kelly Slater, Mick Fanning, Mason Ho, Griffin Colapinto, Jack Freestone, Craig Anderson and Matt Wilkinson.   It takes place in 2034, after a deadly virus wiped out a large percentage of the population….

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The second poster for Piero Messina’s Another End features two lovers sleeping towards each other, almost touching hands, on an ‘endless’ bed of beige. For me, it evokes the key art for Atom Egoyan’s 1997 Canadian masterpiece, The Sweet Hereafter.  The image is a compelling one, but what drew me to the poster was the typesetting of the title. By simply bolding select letters, Italian designer Federico Mauro subtly indicates the story of the film, or the central relationship between Gael García Bernal’s and Renate Reinsve’s characters with “THE END” Pretty much everything else, the festival logos, the credit block, and other funding sources, is designed to stay out of the way of the central image and the title. Even the colours are muted to help emphasize…

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Look, I’m not advocating selling the farm — wait, do any of you own a farm?! — or mortgaging the kids — please don’t do that — but I am suggesting that if you don’t have a 4K player and a 4K television, maybe put down that latte and start saving up. The august Criterion Collection is going 4K in a serious way in November. Their lineup includes the original Godzilla (Gojira) (1954), the original Seven Samurai (1954) — can you believe both films came out in the same year (?!) — the original Scarface (1932), the one and only Paper Moon (1973), and the most recent release of them all, Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water (2017), all in 4K. ‘Nuff said. (For…

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Every fall, soon after the Toronto International Film Festival and just before the New York Film Festival and the Sitges Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantastic de Catalunya, Fantastic Fest arrives to take our blues away with eight days of cinematic delights. Celebrating its 19th edition — let me just pause and say: 19? Nineteen?! — Fantastic Fest will be held at the world-famous Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar in Austin, Texas, from September 19-26. The festival will feature 28 World Premieres, 23 International and North American Premieres, and 15 U.S. Premieres. In addition to the films, the festival’s trademark events look quite inviting, as usual, and special guests will drop by to enhance the entire event. The opening night events sound spectacular, so allow me to…

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Coralie Fargeat’s new film, the body horror flick The Substance, will open this year’s Midnight Madness program at TIFF then roll out in cinemas across Canada on September 20th. The film’s distributor MUBI released a brand new trailer this morning. You got to check it out, down below.    MUBI, the global film distributor, production company and streaming service has released the brand-new full-length trailer for Coralie Fargeat’s (Revenge) deliriously entertaining and ruthlessly satirical new film The Substance, starring Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley and Dennis Quaid. The Substance won Best Screenplay at the 77th Cannes Film Festival and will make its North American debut at TIFF 2024, opening the Midnight Madness section of the festival before releasing in cinemas across Canada on September 20, 2024….

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Michelle Iannantuono’s horror thriller stars Michael Smallwood, Kristopher Bosch, and Christopher Trindade.

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Entertainment Squad has acquired the worldwide rights for S. S. Arora’s feature debut, The Deserving. Wasting no time they will release the flick under their genre label, The Horror Collective, on October 1st.     Story centers around a depressed mute serial killer tormented in his house by the ghost of his victims. On the morning he’s set to kill himself he’s visited by a sudden walk-in client in need of a photo shoot. We have your first look at the new key art for The Deserving. The gallery below also features a stil from the flick. The full announcement follows, including a list of awards and accolades that the film won while on the festival circuit.    Entertainment Squad has acquired worldwide rights to The…

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Our friends at Grimmfest have announced the full lineup of feature films playing at this year’s festival. The festival takes place during the first weekend in October, the perfect time for launching spooky season, at the Odeon Great Northern in Manchester. More great genre gems will join the previously announced From Darkness, Killher, Beezel, The Well and Amsterdam Alert.   This year the festival will host three world premieres. Bruce Goodison’s Black Cab, starring Nick Frost, will open this year’s festival. Joey Palmroos’ road-action thriller Delivery Driver and Andrew Bell’s Bleeding are both having their world premieres at the festival this year.    Canadian ride-share thriller Self Driver, Can Evrenol’s latest Sayara, Dutch nuclear strike thriller Amsterdam Alert should provide their lion’s share of thrills this year. Everything you…

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Following the loss of his father, a grieving twenty-year-old struggles to hold his family together as an unspeakable darkness plagues his older brother.

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Cailee Spaeny, David Jonsson, Archie Renaux, Isabela Merced, Spike Fearn, and Aileen Wu star in the sci-fi thriller, directed by Fede Alvarez.

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