Peter Martin

Dallas

Freelance Writer and Editor at Freelance

@ScreenAnarchy Managing Editor. @DallasFilmNow editor. #EverythingButHorror creator/writer. @DFWFilmCritics member. @RottenTomatoes individually-accredited.

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LIGHT OF THE SETTING SUN Review: How Trauma Shapes Identity, Inspires Poetry

1 week ago | screenanarchy.com | Peter Martin

Filmmaker Vicky Du is ready to dive into her family's history. Why did they leave China and move to Taiwan? Why did they leave Taiwan and move to the U.S.? Having made a documentary short, Gaysians (2016), served as an associate producer on the sterling doc Free Solo (2018), and produced and directed on the doc series Art in the Twenty-First Century (2020), Du has developed a good eye for framing and sets a calm, deliberate pace for her feature debut.
GOVERNMENT CHEESE Review: Bizarrely Amusing Surreal Comedy

1 week ago | screenanarchy.com | Peter Martin

Great ideas can come from anywhere. Government CheeseThe ten-episode comedy makes its global debut on Apple TV+ on Wednesday, April 16 with the first four episodes, followed by new episodes every Wednesday through May 28, 2025. I've seen all ten episodes. I was raised in the San Fernando Valley during the 1960s, so my interest was naturally piqued when I learned about a new series starring David Oyelowo that is set in the San Fernando Valley during the 1960s.
CARNAL KNOWLEDGE and More Sizzlers Coming to Criterion in July 2025

1 week ago | screenanarchy.com | Peter Martin

Mike Nichols' mercurial Carnal Knowledge, starring Jack Nicholson and Art Garfunkel, arrives in 4K from The Criterion Collection in July 2025. Written by Jules Feiffer, the stormy drama also stars Candice Bergen, Ann-Margret, Rita Moreno, Carol Kane, and Cynthia O'Neal; it's a landmark film, one that challenges conventional narratives. Personally, I always found it rather insufferable, but I realize I'm in a distinct minority on that one.
YOUR FRIENDS & NEIGHBORS Review: Sad Eyes and the Ugly Rich

1 week ago | screenanarchy.com | Peter Martin

What are you willing to do in order to support your lifestyle? Your Friends & NeighborsThe first two episodes in the limited series begin streaming Friday, April 11, exclusively on Apple TV+ worldwide. Subsequent episodes will debut every Friday. I've seen the first seven of ten episodes. Late in the new Apple TV+ series from Jonathan Tropper (Banshee, Warrior, See), a character comments upon the "sad eyes" that Andrew Cooper, enacted by Jon Hamm, constantly displays.
CHUNGKING EXPRESS 4K Review: Loneliness, Yearning, Loss, Romance, Joy, Bliss

2 weeks ago | screenanarchy.com | Peter Martin

Why does this film make me burst into tears, every single time I watch it? Chungking Express The film can be pre-ordered in a 4K UHD + Blu-ray Combo Edition, as well as a separate Blu-ray edition, via The Criterion Collection. In the late 1990s, I was recovering from an emotionally tumultuous time.
Now Streaming: THE BONDSMAN, Diabolical Comedy Goes for the Gore with Gusto

2 weeks ago | screenanarchy.com | Peter Martin

Splatter ahoy!The BondsmanAll eight episodes are now streaming on Prime Video. "The Devil went down to Georgia," according to a song by the Charlie Daniels Band, released in 1979. The song, with its distinctive fiddle riffs, kept playing in my mind as I watched the first two episodes of The Bondsman, which is set in the fictional town of Landry, Georgia, U.S., deep in the South, where Hub Halloran (Kevin Bacon) plies his trade as a bounty hunter.
SIDE QUEST Review: Mythic Fun, Now in Bite-Sized Form

1 month ago | screenanarchy.com | Peter Martin

Rob McElhenney, Annamarie Kasper (pictured), Esai Morales, Anna Konkle, Derek Waters, William Stanford Davis, Bria SamonĂ© Henderson, Rome Flynn, Gary Kraus, Shalita Grant and more star in the expansion anthology series. Side QuestAll four episodes of the limited series are now streaming on Apple TV+.
Now Streaming: ANORA, THE OUTRUN, DEN OF THIEVES: PANTERA, SING SING

1 month ago | screenanarchy.com | Peter Martin

As the window between theatrical and home video releases continue to shrink, I find myself increasingly asking: is this movie on a streaming service yet? When I'm ambitious, I check each of my (too many) streaming service official sites. Othertimes, I turn to my friend Just Watch, a very helpful app.
SXSW 2025: How Theaters Are Eventizing the Moviegoing Experience

1 month ago | screenanarchy.com | Peter Martin

Before I watched anything at SXSW this year, I began Friday, March 7, by attending a panel entitled "How Theaters Are Eventizing the Moviegoing Experience." Much of the discussion centered around how individual theaters and local cinema chains have made events a central part of their strategy for luring patrons and then keeping them in their locations on a regular basis. I found the panel to be quite interesting. You can listen to all 48 minutes at the official SXSW site.
SXSW 2025: CORINA, NIRVANA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE, and More Win Audience Awards

1 month ago | screenanarchy.com | Peter Martin

For reasons I cannot fully explain, I an unreasonably happy that director Urzula Barba Hopfner's Corina won the Audience Award in the Global section at SXSW 2025. I love the movie. That is all. Matt Johnson's Nirvana the Band the Show the Movie won the Audience Award in the Midnighter section. I'm sure that anyone who saw the movie, as our own J Hurtado did, will not be surprised either.