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6 days ago | screenanarchy.com | Andrew Mack

The first day of Star Wars Celebration in Japan started off hot. Sigourney Weaver talked about her role in the upcoming The Mandalorin & Grogu movie and Sam Witwer will reprise his role as the voice of Darth Maul in a new animtated series, Star Wars: Darth Maul - Shadow Lord. The big news of the day was when Lucasfilm confirmed that Sean Levy's standalone Star Wars film will begin production this Fall, with a theatrical release date of May 28th, 2027.

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.

1 week ago | screenanarchy.com | Martin Tsai

The Shrouds is David Cronenberg's most intensely personal film, or at least he wants us to think it is. Just how intensely personal can body horror get, you might ask? Well, here we have Vincent Cassel acting as Cronenberg's proxy. Not only is the French bad boy sporting the Canadian auteur's signature slicked back grey 'do, he also gets to recite Cronenberg's spiel on atheism as tech impresario Karsh. So OK.

1 week ago | screenanarchy.com | Kyle Logan

In his review of Invention, the new film from writer/director Courtney Stephens and actor/writer Callie Hernandez, Martin Kudlac discusses the many ways it explores the lines between reality and fantasy, and how those lines are oddly similar in grief and conspiracy theories. It's a review that makes you want to see the film not only to luxuriate in a beautiful and thoughtful piece of art, but also so that you can talk about it, because there's so much to talk about.

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.