Hong Sang-soo can find inspirations for his films anywhere. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Pedro Almodóvar's latest feature film. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Mark Heyman's feature film directorial debut, Pendulum, is being released by Vertical in theaters nationwide on New Year's Day, January 1st, 2027. A new poster was released today. Check it out, down below.    Married couple Patrick and Abigail journey to a new-age retreat in New Mexico, drawn by the possibility of healing after a traumatic event. Patrick is willing to do anything to help his wife, but becomes distrustful of the retreat’s enigmatic leader even as Abigail falls under her spell. As paranoia builds, the couple must determine if the group’s spiritual practices offer genuine healing – or mask a terrifying truth that threatens to consume them both.... [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

A new poster for Gozilla Minus Zero has arrived. The big guy stands posed for distruction, our minds filling in the sound associated with such a stance, a massive "Skreeonk".    Tickets are on sale now. IMAX early access screenings start on November 3rd. Regular screenings begin across Canada on November 6th.    War reduced Japan to zero, and Godzilla plunged it into minus. Two years have passed since then, and the country has faced agonizing struggles to achieve recovery and finally reclaim its daily life.   Just as humanity managed to cling to a hard-won peace, a new threat strikes, crushing hope in an instant.   There is no third time. Everything ends here.   "There is no third time". Funny. I think those... [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

On the morning of August 22, 2023, people in the Allai Valley, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, looked up. No one could believe their eyes when they saw a cable car hanging hundreds of feet above, suspended by the last cable that was supporting it. People were terrified that, at any minute, the cable car, containing eight people, including six children on their way to school, would come smashing down. It was obvious that media outlets were recording the entire incident, which was being reported live on all television screens across Pakistan. It was the same impossible image that showed people wailing from inside, asking for help, desperate to do something that would save their lives. Something else happened on the ground, however. Someone reached for their phone,... [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

KL Studio Classics, the main sub-label under the Kino Lorber home video brand, doesn't get the praise the "cooler" boutique labels garner, but it's every bit as deserving. Their 4K scans and remasters maintain a high level of quality and consistency these days, and their titles run the gamut from beloved classics and past hits to hidden gems and obscure examples of cinematic weirdness. We're heading into the spooky season, so I wanted to highlight some of their recent horror-centric offerings. Some of these have gotten the 4K treatment, often with HDR and Dolby Vision, while others are just new to home video, but all of them have something to offer fans. Ships and people continue to disappear while sailing through the Bermuda Triangle, and... [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Argentine director Lisandro Alonso makes a sequel to his debut film, a quarter century later. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Buddy will eventually wind down its theatrical run (Unless they find another version to release -- I'd vote for some kind of Gallagher splatter version but then who'd clean up afterwards?) and that means it is time to share with the movie's fans the dates when they can watch it at home, buy it on DVD and Blu-ray, AND (dah dadda daaaaah) VHS!   Read below.    WATCH IT AT HOME   On Digital: October 13, 2026 On DVD and Blu-ray: December 8, 2026   And there’s more! Pre-Sale for the VHS edition will be available via Witter Entertainment starting on November 24 so that it can ship just in time for the holiday season!    This summer, BUDDY, America’s favorite orange unicorn, emerged as... [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

More about Indonesian horror Suzzanna: Empress of Darkness below. But first ...  In preparation for my recent Jimmy Sangster retrospective interview with Severin’s David Gregory and noted Hammer expert Marcus Hearn, Severin was kind enough to pass along links for their new Sangster Directs Hammer 4K box set. I was very impressed, but even then I had no idea how gorgeous this thing would be. The day it arrived was a happy one indeed. The hardshell clam box features gorgeous art, and each of the three films in the set gets a unique slipcover and another unique sleeve. That is a lot of art. Those looking for original poster art packaging might be a little disappointed, but I doubt it. Another major plus here is Horror!... [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Pedro Pascal stars in director Tony Gilroy's new film. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Plus: 'Once Upon a Time in the Middle East,' 'The Beast,' 'The Social Reckoning.' [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Kenny Riches writes, directs and stars in this pre-Recession tale of wanting a better life. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Pawel Pawlikowski's new film revolves around a hefty subject, conveyed with visual grace and succinct editing with beautiful, subtle performances by both Hanns Zischler and Sandra Hüller. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Ten years ago, filmmaker Gabe Klinger released his debut feature with Porto (reviewed here by Shelagh), and in that film he put some serious question marks at the popular cinematic trope of people being destined for each other after having one fantastic night together. In his second narrative feature Isabel, Klinger does the same thing with another such trope: people following their dreams and reinventing themselves. Let's just say Klinger likes to "keep it real". In Isabel we follow the titular main character, a wine expert in her early fifties who works at a Michelin-starred restaurant as the sommelier. A dream job for a connoisseur, but she feels frustrated and constricted because the restaurant's chef does not share her love of Brazilian natural wines and... [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Carlos Reygadas' new film. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Plus: 'Appofeniacs' and 'Misty Green.' [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Hitman Hank Carter is trying to save his marriage with the perfect family Christmas, unfortunately for him, a hit has been put on his head, and a gang of festive bounty hunters will stop at nothing to collect the payday. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

The Asylum's Street Fighters is releasing today on digital! Just thought we would share that with you fans of the tongue-in-cheek low-fi mockbusters.    The world’s best martial artists fight in a world championship put on by a mysterious organization. As alliances forge and enemies emerge, they realize it’s not only the grand prize on the line, but their lives.   The trailer and some stills are below. We honestly do not recall ever seeing any of the original studio films so cannot say with any authority that there was a fight with a three-story tall demon. But you have to appreciate the big swing The Asylum took with this one.    Street Fighters was directed by Brian Nowak. It stars Yomade Adefeso, Diamond Marie... [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

We had to check our calendar because for a moment, we thought we were back in our college dorm room with a Pulp Fiction poster up on the wall, or roaming the halls, whispering, “You’re so cool.”, hoping someone equally in the know would pick up on the reference to Tony Scott’s True Romance.   A wave of nostalgia overcame us when we started watching Chris Marrs Piliero’s Appofeniacs. Once the violent and intense prologue—a sign of things to come—was out of the way, we were struck by how familiar it all felt. The movie demanded a moment to pause before the story kicked in. The impression is that you are watching an ode, a love letter to the neo-noir explosion in the 90s, a... [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Now working as a field agent for the CIA, Becky (Lulu Wilson) is sent undercover to Poland to infiltrate a family of innkeepers who are running a tourist venture at The Wolf’s Lair, Hitler’s WWII bunker. After learning that the father, Wilhelm Reuss (Neil Patrick Harris), is on a mission to bring about the Fourth Reich, Becky takes matters into her own hands.   Jenn Wexler's contribution to the Becky franchise, The Last Temptation of Becky, is coming to cinemas on November 4th. Two teasers were released this week. Meant to be watch in tandem they serve as a quick re-introduction to our heroine, Becky, and this film's advisary, Reuss, played by Neal Patrick Harris.    Our own Josh caught the threequel when it premiered... [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

It doesn’t take much for me to completely buy into your giant snake movie. Number one, show me the snake; number two, make the snake exciting; and number three, make the movie fun. Somehow, Mike P. Nelson’s Beware Boiúna comes up short on all three counts, delivering a turgid, overly serious eco-fable about a monster boa with very little action, and even less payoff. Alli (Jessica Rothe) is an American do-gooder on a humanitarian medical trip deep into the Amazon. She’s just a trainee, but thankfully she has a team of medical professionals and a seasoned boat hands as they wind their way deep into the mysterious – and dangerous – jungle. When their boat breaks down leading to a tense showdown with a motley... [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson, and Josh Hartnett star. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

The fine folks at the Vancouver Horror Show have announced the balance of the lineup for this year's ninth edition.    Locally filmed production YAGA will have its Western Canadian premiere at the festival. The CRAVE Original series stars Carrie-Anne Moss, Noah Reid, Clark Backo and Hudson Williams and will premiere on the streamer on October 23rd. The first two episodes will screen at the festival followed by a Q&A with special guests including creator and showrunner Kat Sandler, director Rachel Talalay and executive producer Mackenzie Donaldson of Blink49 Studios.   Our friends Adrián García Bogliano and B.C. local, Gigi Saul Guerrero, will attend with a screening of his latest film, Talking to a Stranger. Yuletide horror Unholy Night, SXSW Midnighter Drag, Indigenous horror Ancestral Beasts, and found-footage... [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Milcho Manchevski returns to Tokyo with an offbeat social comedy about survival, solidarity, and the families people create for themselves. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Too far is not far enough in Academy Award-winner Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s bombastic satire, Digger. Iñárritu guides an enthusiastic cast of Hollywood’s A-list through what is sure to wind up as one of the year’s loudest films. Tom Cruise leading the shout-y pack as the obstreperous oil baron, Digger Rockwell, a man whose greed may have doomed the world, but also possibly the only man who can save it. The less said about the plot and structure of Digger, the better, even for those who will not like the film – and they will be legion – any joy that can be wrung from this boisterous, absurd experiment will be in the discovery. Suffice it to say that Digger Rockwell appears to be the most... [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Real life sisters Kate and Rooney Mara play sisters in Werner Herzog's modern fairytale. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Agathe Bonitzer and Vladimir Vulevic star in Angela Schanelec's new film. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

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...]

In an isolated rural community in the Colombian mountains, evil takes shape inside Abraham and Isabel's home through the existence of Lazarus. Guided by their own local beliefs and ancestral rituals, they confront the unknown in a desperate attempt to end their torment. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

When a documentary team set out to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a young girl, events soon take an unexpected turn, leading the filmmakers down an increasingly dark and horrifying path. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

When the body of a man missing for thirty-six years is discovered at the scene of a horrific crime, it's up to his estranged daughter to unravel his dark past. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Director Andrew Haigh's new drama stars Fred Hechinger, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and Caitríona Balfe. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Filmmaker Mark Duplass has partnered with the Chilliwack Independent Film Festival as an industry mentor for its new micro-budget film grant initiative, which the festival is celebrating with a secret pop-up screening of Creep 2 and a live Q&A with director Patrick Brice. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Plus: 'Appofeniacs' and 'Misty Green.' [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

It's surely one of the finest films of the year, and yet another masterpiece by Lee Chang-dong. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

John Trengove adapts Mark Behr's novel into a restrained, disquieting coming-of-age drama that filters apartheid-era privilege, racial hierarchy and paternal idealization through a child's limited understanding. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

There's something special going on with Michiel van Erp's new film. That the cast and crew received a standing ovation at the opening of the Netherlands Film Festival (NFF) last Friday isn't all that unusual (festival opening, enthusiastic audience), but here something different seemed to be happening. First there's the film's subject: three men who, in the midst of one epidemic, corona, look back on another, entirely different but even deadlier epidemic of the 1980s, and on their lives and love within it. What's special about it, and it's easy to forget this after the largely positive reception, especially from the Amsterdam in-crowd and the media around it, lies particularly in the film's dramatic structure and execution, which is nearly flawless. Of course, the film... [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Afsaneh Salari's formally controlled documentary examines cosmetic surgery in Iran as an unstable expression of conformity, resistance, consumer desire, and bodily autonomy. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor directed the documentary. Once we delegate our moral obligation to AI, we've already lost whatever we are fighting for. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Sandra Hüller and Caro Braun star in Markus Schleinzer's period drama. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Adam Driver, Miles Teller, and Scarlett Johansson star in director James Gray's crime thriller. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

During the opening titles of Vincent Munier's new documentary, you watch a forest, for minutes, with trees slowly emerging from the fog, while Hildur Guðnadóttir's Fólk Fær Andlit music plays. Seen on the big screen it's a jawdropper of a shot, and a meditative moment which is a feast for your senses. Many will follow. Vincent Munier is an award-winning nature photographer and filmmaker, and for this title he spent a winter in the French Vosges mountain forests. Not alone, mind you: he brought his father (also a renowned nature photographer) and his 13-year-old son with him. The end result is this film, Whispers in the Woods, which is about love of nature, of patience, of incredible dedication for getting the right shot. In a... [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

The 19th edition of the Toronto After Dark Film Festival has announced the complete lineup of features and short films.    The rather intense looking nature thriller Whalefall will open this year's festival. Brian Duffield's thriller stars Zach Cregger alumni Austin Abrams and Josh Brolin.   Festival faves from the circuit, The Fox, Species and Drag, join the previously announced I Love Paris.    All the films playing at this year's festival are included in the announcement below.    The Toronto After Dark Film Festival (TADFF) has officially unveiled its lineup for its 19th edition of exciting new horror, sci-fi and action films, which will screen from October 14 - 18, 2026 at the Cineplex Scotiabank Theatre (259 Richmond St W) and CineCycle (129 Spadina Ave). Across... [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

As glaciers advance and cities freeze, a team of scientists races against time to build a colossal thermal shield to protect Earth from an encroaching ice age that will plunge the planet into extinction. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

The folks behind horror hit, Buddy, have prepared one last gasp at getting clueless parents to take their innocent, unsuspecting children into a theater to watch a horror flick. They will do so under the family friendly guise of sing-along screenings.    Beginning Friday, October 2, BUDDY fans at cinemas nationwide can experience the film as never before with a special theatrical engagement of BUDDY: THE SING-ALONG VERSION, featuring on-screen lyrics to all of BUDDY’s unforgettable songs.   Audiences are encouraged to dress up, sing their hearts out and join BUDDY and his friends for an immersive, one-of-a-kind theatrical experience that turns BUDDY into the ultimate event. Fan favorites including “It’s Buddy!,” “You’ve Got to Be Scared to Be Brave” and “The Wrong Place in... [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Of the six new genre films that we're highlighting today, I've seen three, and of those, Dave Boyle's Never After Dark stands out. Our critic J Hurtado goes into much more detail in his review, linked below, but I'll add only that it was a pleasant surprise that quickly becomes an entirely gripping horror thriller. Don't miss the opportunity to see it in a movie theater. I enjoyed Lance Oppenheimer's sizzling drama Primetime more than our critic, Kyle Logan. His review, also linked below, capably explains his reservations. Thirdly, I also enjoyed David Ayer's wilderness survival adventure Heart of the Beast, though to a much lesser degree than the films listed above; still, see Mel Valentin's review below to see why he thinks it's an... [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

The 64th edition of the New York Film Festival kicks off tonight with a screening of James Gray's crime drama Paper Tiger. We might call the film an elevated genre picture, considering the filmmaker, the stars, and, of course, its opening night selection of one of the most prestigious film festivals in the world. Per the official synopsis: "Adam Driver, Miles Teller, and Scarlett Johansson star in James Gray's brilliant New York thriller, charting the tragic fallout after a family man is pulled into a shady scheme with Russian criminals by his former cop brother." The biggest challenge for local residents is the relative scarcity of tickets; screenings tend to sell out very quickly. (See this page for available tickets, but act fast.) The programming... [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

May el-Toukhy's film, by virtue of winning the Golden Lion, is an automatic entrant into the Best International Film Oscar race. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

The title of the Mahershala Ali-led, Bassam Tariq-directed Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother, an action-thriller with more than just action or thrills on its mind, derives from a well-known “Hadith,” a saying attributed to the Prophet Muhammad in Islam.   Depending on the translation, the question differs slightly (e.g., “Whom should you honor foremost?”, “Who deserves your companionship and finest treatment?”), but the answer, repeated three times, remains the same: “Your mother.” "Your father" comes in fourth and last.    Ali’s character, Latif, a Muslim hitman (“he only kills the undeserving and the unrighteous”), finds himself at a literal, metaphorical crossroads when his wife dies suddenly, not through random or intentional violence as a genre enthusiast might expect, but through natural causes. Her loss... [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]

Mamoru Oshii ('Ghost in the Shell') tells a mysterious story in a mesmerizing fashion, now on 4K from GKids. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]