Indie Features
Now Streaming: ANORA, THE OUTRUN, DEN OF THIEVES: PANTERA, SING SING
Award winners, nominees, FYC contenders, and even a commercial release beckon.
SXSW 2025 Wrap: All Our Reviews, Interviews, and More
The sound of silence is deafening. SXSW 2025 has concluded this year's edition. Last week the jury and special awards were announced. Our coverage is not quite complete; we'll update this post as a few more articles roll in this...
SXSW 2025 Preview: Fun Films Galore at Texas's Biggest Throwdown
Now that the serious business of Sundance and Oscar Season have come to a close, we can turn our attention to what really matters... a wild festival of good times, BBQ, and too many great movies to see in Texas's...
Corey Yuen's Underseen WOMEN ON THE RUN Is New to Blu from Vinegar Syndrome
Corey Yuen, Billy Tang, and more see new releases from Vinegar Syndrome Archive!
Friday One Sheet: UNDER THE BURNING SUN
Warm and desolate at the same time, Yun Xie's tight 75 minute science fiction picture, Under The Burning Sun is a road trip across the desert; a journey to an uncertain freedom by a solitary pregnant woman. The key art may...
Now Streaming: THE ÅRE MURDERS Get Chilly, COMMON SIDE EFFECTS Get Weird
Plus: 'Invincible' returns, 'The Eastern Gate' opens, 'Love You to Death' mocks.
Sundance 2025 Reviews: What We Saw, Liked and Loved
Updated 2/17/25. On January 23, 2025, the center of our genre-film loving world moved to Park City, Utah, US, where the Sundance Film Festival unveiled a broad and diverse selection of films. Our own Mel Valentin attended the festival in...
On David Lynch
It's not often that the team at ScreenAnarchy feels a loss like we have with David Lynch. And we're not alone; since last Thursday, I've seen an outpouring of love, sadness, and remembering that I've not seen the like...
Friday One Sheet: THE RULE OF JENNY PEN
Giving off a serious Greek Tragedy aesthetic, the key art for James Ashcroft's psychological thriller, The Rule of Janny Pen, leans into hollowed eyes, textured porcelain, and creepy doll vibes. There is a kind of shadowy minimalism going on here,...
Sundance 2025 Preview: Another Year of Exciting Films
It's been a bit of a weird start to 2025, but festival season is kicking off in earnest with the traditional chilly celebration of indie film that is the Sundance Film Festival. The fest includes 88 feature films in this...
Now Streaming: David Lynch
Where to watch. You decide what.
Now Streaming: GET AWAY, AMERICAN PRIMEVAL, ON CALL, THE PITT
Plus: 'Goosebumps: The Vanishing,' as the streaming season resumes.
Now Streaming: LOCKERBIE, HORROR'S GREATEST, WALLACE & GROMIT: VENGEANCE MOST FOWL
Horror comes in many forms: docu-drama, anthology, and comic (?!).
Now Streaming: Horror in November Includes CHILDREN SHOULDN'T PLAY WITH DEAD THINGS, BLACK CAB, RITA, and More Terror
Horror fans, don't be blue! Just because the Halloween season concluded yesterday, there are still plenty of frightening flicks that await your discovery and/or revisitation. Our favorite horror-focused streamer, Shudder, announced their slate for the Fall and Holiday seasons last...
Friday One Sheet: THE ORDER
I am generally indifferent to collage style posters, particularly when designers transitioned from hand-painted to photoshop. However, I do admire the commitment to verticality taken by design house, Fable, for Justin Kurzel's neo-nazi procedural, The Order. The pull quotes, the above...
Friday One Sheet: SHARP CORNER Teaser
This will be a short one today, with this minimalist teaser for Jason Buxton's dark character study, Sharp Corner. A family man (Ben Foster) becomes obsessed with saving the lives of the car accident victims on the sharp corner in front...
Friday One Sheet: DEAD MAIL
Delightfully low-fi and textured, the key art for Joe DeBoer's and Kyle McConaghy's Dead Mail not only is a great reflection of the analog style of the film, but also offers a significant amount of information about the plot. The...
Midnight Dankness: Toronto's LoFi Remix Unofficial TIFF Pre-Game Hang
It was 2021 and most film festivals, big or small, were in an online only model. Perhaps due to its late summer sweet spot, The Toronto International Film festival managed a soft-hybrid, with a significantly reduced number of films, some of...
Friday One Sheet: THE SECOND
This beautiful watercolour poster for Tony Zhou and Taylor Ramos's The Second is hiding a subtle secret in plain sight. The short film centres around a pistols-at-dawn kind of duel, and the underlying complexity of motivations across two generations. The lead...
Fantasia 2024: Let Us Raise the Curtain on North America's Largest Genre Festival
The 28th Fantasia International Film Festival runs from July 18 to August 4 in a hot hot hot Montreal. For those of us located in North America, it is one of our favourite times of the year. Due to its...
