Screen Anarchy

If you hike or bike in city, state, or federal parks regularly, you’re likely familiar with a simple, potentially life-saving rule: Always, and we do mean always, leave information behind as to where you’re hiking or biking and when you’re expected back. That way, at least, your loved ones and/or whoever comes looking for you (i.e., a co-worker when you stop showing up for work) knows where to look and how long you’ve been missing. And if you didn’t know that rule, you know it now. In Adam Schindler and Brian Netto’s backwoods thriller, Don’t Move, Iris (Kelsey Asbille, Wind River), a grieving mother and wife, disregards that rule, awakening one morning, her brain fogged by the loss of her preteen son (seen via photo…

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We’re always on the lookout for any Indigenous genre projects from anywhere around the World, but specifically here in Canada and Turtle Island. When news of a teen sci-fi called Dream Walker from Algonquin filmmaker Sarah Kelley crossed our desk we knew we had to share it with you.   … Finley Green embarks on a perilous journey to find her mother, navigating the turbulence of foster care and betrayal. Arriving in the misty town of Oceanside, Oregon, she forms a fragile bond with her roommate Charlotte, and is drawn to the charming but deceptive Jude. Just as she begins to hope for a brighter future, Jude’s betrayal shatters her world—he drugs her and delivers her to The Foundation, where teens with extraordinary abilities are held against…

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Given how the Marvel stranglehold on entertainment has been loosened as of late, it can be hard for fans to know what to expect from a current Marvel film. It’s become clear that having to be an expert across multiple stories and platforms is no longer accetable to many people (as it shouldn’t be, people only have so many hours in the day and very few want to devote all their entertainment time and money to the company); and yet, some knowledge is going to be necessary, especially in sequels. But can someone still be entertained, even within these limitations? Venom: The Last Dance does its best to keep its audience entertained in its little corner of the Marvel Universe, and for the most part,…

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When Daisy Ridley (Sometimes I Think About Dying, The Marsh King’s Daughter, the Star Wars sequel trilogy) last appeared on screen in Young Woman and the Sea earlier this year, she was literally and figuratively swimming for her life. She’s no longer swimming or anywhere near a large body of water in her latest film, Magpie, but her character, Anette, isn’t far from drowning metaphorically if not in real — or rather, reel — life. As scripted with surprising, not entirely unwelcome, bluntness by screenwriter Tom Bateman’s (Ridley’s real-life husband), Anette fails into a familiar category, the woman on the verge of a public and/or private breakdown, of letting slip the thin veneer of societal norms, asserting her singular agency, and acting/reacting against those norms,…

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By all accounts the premiere of Izzy Lee’s debut supernatural and topical horror flick, House of Ashes, was a rip-roaring success. Word from our friend and fellow Anarchist, Lee, is that the screening at Brooklyn Horror went very well. No one left after the screening and stuck around for a Q&A that spilled out into the lobby of the cinema after their time was up. Reviews are coming in hot – far more eloquent than mine – and the love is real.    Our mission today is two-fold. One, Izzy gave us an exclusive clip to share with you today. Two, remind everyone else on the festival circuit and for distributors out there who you should talk to if you want a slice of this…

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The folks at Slamdance have announced The Indie Awards, “an annual event dedicated to celebrating the spirit of truly independent filmmaking”. The awards focus on US and Indigenous films that are either overlooked by film festivals or go unnoticed during award season. Screen Anarchy alumnus Ben Umstead is one of the co-founders of this new event. along with Paul Rachman and Peter Baxter.   Three current Anarchists also featured in this inaugural edition. Shelagh, Olga and Anki participated in two of the nomination committees, the documentary and narrative features selections. All the nominees are announced below. One title that pops out and should be familiar to our readers in Vera Drew’s The People’s Joker.   The Indie Awards will be presented at the DGA Theater, Los…

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Lausanne Underground Film Festival (LUFF) concluded its 23rd edition with a community-driven celebration of experimental cinema and sound.

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Melissa Barrera, Tommy Dewey, Edmund Donovan, Kayla Foster, and Meghann Fahy star in a film directed by Caroline Lindy.

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This year, director Yamashita Nobuhiro (Linda, Linda, Linda, Tamako in Moratorium) was the guest of honor at the Camera Japan Film Festival in Rotterdam. The programme showed no less than five films by him, all of which were released in the past year. Three of those ended up in the festival’s audience top ten. Two of those were in the top five. And one of them… was the festival’s audience favorite this year. That winner was the comedy-drama Karaoke Iko!, the international title of which is Let’s Go Karaoke! Based on a popular 2020 manga by Wayama Yama, the story tells of an unlikely friendship between high-school choirboy Satomi, and Kyouji, a gangster in urgent need of singing lessons. Kyouji’s yakuza boss is holding an…

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Stunt Coordinator JoJo Eusebio is making the move to the big chair and beloved actor Ke Huy Quan will be there to help!   Eusebio is directing their first feature film, a new action film called Love Hurts, with Quan in the lead as a mild-mannered realtor pulled back into a world of hitmen and gang lords. Quan takes the lead for the first time in this new era of theirs and is joined by Ariana DeBose, Daniel Wu, Sean Astin, Mustafa Shakir, Lio Tipton, Rhys Darby, Marshawn Lynch, and André Eriksen.   Eusebio directs a screenplay written by Matthew Murray & Josh Stoddard and Luke Passmore. The action movie was produced by 87North, a trusted brand in the action genre. Eusebio worked in stunts…

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