The recently launched Punjab Film City is like a light at the end of a dark tunnel for the Pakistani film industry, since enough has been discussed about the lack of resources and weak infrastructure in this area. This is, indeed, a healthy step towards enabling local filmmakers to tell their unique stories to the world, and letting the world know about Pakistani culture on its own terms. Pakistan is not devoid of talent. New films with strong stories are released every year, with many also making their way to international film festivals. Experimental filmmaking is something that the region has just begun to explore with its latest release of Zombeid (2026). New streaming projects are on the rise due to the rapidly growing OTT... [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Plus: 'Appofeniacs' and 'Misty Green.'

David Ayer directs the wilderness adventure two-hander. Make that six-hander.

Mamoru Oshii ('Ghost in the Shell') tells a mysterious story in a mesmerizing fashion, now on 4K from GKids.

In Julia Kowalski’s witchy fable HER WILL BE DONE, an alienated adolescent woman embraces her mother’s legacy amid parochial patriarchy

In Jorge Thielen Armand’s Venezuelan allegory DEATH HAS NO MASTER, a deceased colonial farmer's daughter returns to a contested inheritance

Paramount agreed to settle an antitrust suit by a dozen State Attorneys General led by California's Rob Bonta, the last obstacle to its merger with WBD.

Celebrated filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda returns to the pages of Japanese manga for inspiration once again, unveiling this thoughtful adaptation of Tatsuki Fujimoto’s acclaimed 2021 coming-of-age one-shot, Look Back. Reuniting actresses Natsuki Deguchi and Aju Makita, both of whom featured prominently in the director’s 2023 Netflix drama series The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House, the film tells the story of two burgeoning young mangaka, who meet in junior high school and forge a life-long friendship.   Look Back was previously brought to the screen in 2024 by Kiyotaka Oshiyama, whose 58-minute anime was met with rapturous praise and no small degree of surprise. Up until that point, there had been only glimpses of this kind of emotional tenderness in Fujimoto’s work, who was best known... [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

It’s hard to fathom that If I Go Will They Miss Me is a debut film. Yes, it’s expanded from writer-director Walther Thompson-Hernandez’s Sundance winning short film of the same name, but it’s so as…

Gary Oldman, Jack Lowden, and Kristin Scott Thomas reprise their roles in the British spy series.

Also: Anthony Mingella's 'The English Patient,' Pietro Germi's 'Divorce Italian Style,' Ernst Lubitsch's 'The Shop Around the Corner,' and 'Sara Gómez's Revolutionary Cuba.'

John Wilson's documentary is illuminating, fascinating, hilarious, and poignant.

The Film by the Sea festival in Vlissingen (a.k.a. Flushing) started this year on a high note with its opening film Youri, by Sander Burger. The festival always has a large section dedicated to literary adaptations, and its main theme this year is "Moed", the Dutch word for courage. Youri fits the section, as it is an adaptation of Jan Brokken's biographical novel "In the House of the Poet" about his friendship with superstar pianist Youri Egerov. It also fits the theme of "Courage", in several parts of the story, some of which are obvious, but some of which I will not spoil. The film starts in Amsterdam in the 1980s, a few years after the famous Russian pianist Youri Egerov has fled to the... [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Discover the story and legacy of UPA, the innovative studio that changed American animation. A new documentary by Kevin Schreck.

The galaxy's favorite duo is back! Grab your crew, bring a blanket, and join us under the stars for Star Wars: The Mandalorian & Grogu!

For a brief, not-quite-shining moment, Paul Greengrass’ (Captain Phillips, United 93, the Jason Bourne series) latest film, The Uprising, bore a subtitle added by studio marketers, “The Rise of Robin Hood,” only to remove it after howls of outrage from the Terminally Online.   They claimed, not without justification or cause, that the Robin Hood mythos had been adapted and re-adapted so many times in every possible medium as to lose all relevance or, at a minimum, any possible novelty or freshness.   Luckily for them and for any moviegoers venturing out of the oppressive heat into their local multiplex to see The Uprising, Greengrass’ film doesn’t retell the overly-familiar Robin Hood’s story for the 357th time, but instead focuses on a well-documented period in... [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

When Practical Magic was released in 1998, no one probably thought it would become a special movie for a whole slew of teenage girls and young women. And not just because of witchery, black cats, and pointy hats, even though that’s always fun, unless you’re a woman in the 17th century Massachusetts. The real, practical magic was the fact that, in a pretty male-centered movie era, out came the film about sisterhood, where a romantic storyline was almost an afterthought, Sally and Gillian Owens were each other’s person years before Meredith Grey and Cristina Yang graced our screens, and there was an impressive message about reclaiming your “otherness” and going along with it inside it all. So, there was never a chance that, in the... [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Zachary Levi leads the action thriller, with Liam Neeson in a supporting role.

Tsui Hark's remarkable third feature stars Lo Lieh, Lin Chen-chi, Albert Au, Che Biu-law, and Lung Tin-sang.

Two children, raised in total isolation by an automated house, begin to confront the mysteries of their existence after an enigmatic stranger arrives from outside. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

When two self-destructive best friends accidentally kill their drug dealer, they have to flee town. Stopping at a roadside antique shop, they quickly discover that the older woman running the place isn't as sweet as she seems. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Yahya Abdul-Matteen II and Mark Wahlberg star in a crime thriller that plays more like a brutal fantasy.