Screen Anarchy

Two things are inevitable in this world: death, and horror films that really want you to know that they’ve seen other horror films. Director Corin Hardy’s Whistle is a little bit of both, a throwback to a horror of a less serious age jam-packed with gory death scenes that occasionally surprise, but more frequently fall flat due to an overreliance on mediocre computer-generated graphics.  Six months after the mysterious spontaneous combustion of a high school basketball hero, his old locker is issued to goth-adjacent troubled teen transfer student, Chrys (Dafne Keen, short for Chrysanthemum, poor kid. She’s attempting to re-enter society by joining her cool cousin Rel (Sky Yang) at Pellington High, but the school’s choice to reallocate the popular dead boy’s locker irks some…

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Are Amy and her family plagued by a deadly curse? Every three years, death strikes under mysterious circumstances, horrifically killing family members. It’s almost three years to the day since Amy’s parents’ death, and Amy realises the curse must strike her next.

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Oliver Laxe talks about fear, faith, and the physical limits he believes cinema must still be willing to cross.

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We have been fans of director Adrián García Bogliano ever since his films Cold Sweat (reviewed here) and Here Comes the Devil (reviewed here), so we consider it good news when a new film by him comes out. Yesterday, the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) hosted the world première of Talking to a Stranger, a horror drama in which Bogliano pushes any fun exploitation into the background, focusing instead on the immense sadness following the loss of a child. In the film, we follow Patricia, a woman tortured by grief and guilt after a particularly cruel accident resulted in seeing her young son Chris burn to death in front of her. Her husband and family try but fail to provide solace, and her depression deepens…

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Writer-director NB Mager’s debut feature stars Alyssa Marvin, Patrick Wilson, Margaret Cho, Sophia Torres, Elizabeth Marvel, and Molly Ringwald.

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Ikuto and Ryoma meet in juvenile detention and become best friends. They pursue their dream of participating in the martial arts event Breaking Down. However, rivalries soon turn their dreams into unexpected conflicts.

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In the winter of 1982, three American boys find themselves stranded in a cable car with a dead body, suspended midair in the mountains of Norway during a rare celestial event.

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Mascha Schilinski’s film moves fluidly across time, perspective, and inner states, positioning itself as a rigorously authored work.

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NEON is releasing Genki Kawarmura’s thriller, the live-action adaptation of the popular video game, this April.

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Pakistani cinema has been shaped by both veteran and emerging filmmakers, whose contrasting approaches to style and storytelling define the industry today. While pioneers worked within technical and structural constraints to establish cinematic traditions, the new generation is pushing boundaries with modern narratives and innovative techniques. Veteran Pakistani filmmakers have shaped the nation’s cinema through diverse genres. Some of the well-known names are Syed Noor, Shamim Ara, Sangeeta, Pervez Malik, Riaz Shahid, and many more. There was a time when their films not only dominated popular culture but also reflected the social and cultural sensibilities of their respective eras. The films produced particularly from the 1960s to the 1990s used limited resources, however, relying on older camera equipment, which often forced the recycling of the…

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