The Secret Splendors of Black Emanuelle

New box set and a special AFS screening set to reappraise the Italian sexploitation series

"...[just] presume they're just rip-offs of the French Emmanuelle films, and they're completely different."..."

June 9, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Top 10 Festival Films of 2021 You Haven't Seen Yet

From retro horror to COVID survival, the best of the fests

"...that snazzy UK region-free release Blu-ray from Third Window Films . 6) Offseason..."

Jan. 7, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Review: Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror

Encyclopedic and engrossing wander into the wilderness

"...heads will undoubtedly give cineastes a long list of films that they may never even have heard of, especially..."

Sept. 28, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Nabs Latest Derrickson-Cargill-Hawke Horror Collab The Black Phone

Keira Knightley dark comedy Silent Night to close fest

"...and Matthew Goode; UK horror A Banquet, from IFC Films; and Norwegian supernatural drama The Innocents, which premiered at..."

Sept. 9, 2021 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Finding the Roots of Folk Horror in Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched

Kier-La Janisse searches for the origins of a genre

"...the subgenre of folk horror. The term describes horror films, mostly from the United Kingdom, that explore insular communities..."

March 12, 2021 Screens Feature by Jenny Nulf

Alamo Drafthouse Goes Into the VOD Business

Alamo on Demand to offer curated selection of films

"...to launch the platform: "We love people to see films in the cinema first and foremost, but the reality..."

May 7, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

It's Knives Out For Rian Johnson at Fantastic Fest

The Last Jedi director's latest to close fest

"...artist Mickey Reece returns with Climate of the Hunter; Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz, who divided audiences with the..."

Aug. 20, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Catches Taika Waititi's JoJo Rabbit

Thor: Ragnarok director's film to open 2019 celebration of the strange

"...has hopped up and dropped its first wave of films, with the headline news that JoJo Rabbit, the latest..."

July 30, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

ATX Film News: What Kat Candler Did Next

Fear the Walking Dead returns, The Son sets, and more

"...as the organization already has similar arrangements with Arrow Films, Severin Films and Vinegar Syndrome...."

May 10, 2019 Screens Column by Richard Whittaker

Wes Anderson Brings Isle of Dogs to SXSW

Plus Midnighters bring the gore, and Alita party

"...be the top to its tail as closing night films, and it's bringing a whole pack of shorts, VR..."

Feb. 7, 2018 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Streets of Fire

A rock & roll fable hits Blu-ray, plus more new releases

"...new franchise, the film was drenched in insanity. Sane films don't tarp the entirety of the Universal Studios New..."

June 18, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Future Shock! The Story of 2000 AD

New documentary on the influential and rule-breaking comic

"...the documentary finally gets a U.S. home release from Severin Films. Producer Sean Hogan talked with the Chronicle after..."

May 30, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Arrow to the Brain

Three titles from the American Genre Film Archive's new partner

"...a new theatrical deal with three retro-distro houses: Arrow Films, Vinegar Syndrome, and Severin...."

Jan. 22, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Film Flam: Neon, Blue Starlite, and Kiss

Movie news, Tim League, and Gene Simmons (not dueting, sadly)

"...Tim League isn't satisfied with just having his Drafthouse Films distribution company. He's put up a new shingle, Neon,..."

Jan. 20, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

American Genre Film Archive Expands

Local film preservationists add Severin, Arrow, Vinegar Syndrome

"...genre home release specialists – Vinegar Syndrome, Arrow, and Severin – to put their incredible collections back where they..."

Jan. 18, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Steve Davis' Top 10 Films of 2015

"...Best Original Screenplay Goodnight Mommy (Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala), Inside Out (Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley,..."

Jan. 1, 2016 Screens Feature by Steve Davis

Goodnight Mommy

Nine-year-old twins suspect that someone is impersonating their mother

"...Directed by: Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz. Starring: Susanne Wuest, Elias Schwarz,..."

Sept. 11, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

DVD Watch: Snitch

Director Ric Roman Waugh makes the Rock into an everyman

"...he's trying to get back to the cerebral action films of the 1970s. He said, "Those movies, they were..."

June 11, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Brand on the Run

Synergy is the name of the game at Drafthouse Films, the distribution arm of the Alamo empire

"...of Klown, the latest release from his fledgling Drafthouse Films. The next day, he will be sending reviewers on..."

Aug. 31, 2012 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Drafthouse Films Acquires New Film

SXSW hit 'The FP' to be distributed in 2012

"...Drafthouse Films, the year-old distribution arm of Alamo Drafthouse, announced today..."

Aug. 1, 2011 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Bloody Beautiful Illusions

Alejandro Jodorowsky, surrealism's topo sangre, on Truth, Beauty, and the Internet

"...digitally remastered, Jodorowsky-authorized, double-disc DVD/Blu-ray release from cult boutiquers Severin Films. It's been a lengthy and labyrinthine crawl into..."

Jan. 14, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

When Bad Movies Attack

James Nguyen's underground oddity Birdemic cries fowl

"...the case with Birdemic, which was "discovered" by then-Troma Films associate Evan Husney, who caught the film at a..."

July 2, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Shortbus

John Cameron Mitchell's sophomore film effort asserts – with great gusto and even a brass band – our universal right to sexual happiness.

"...the boi who’ll come between them. And then there’s Severin (Beamish), a professional domme, and Rob (Barker), the voyeur..."

Oct. 13, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Postmarks

Readers sound off on a variety of touchy subjects: politicos, abandoned kittens, even the brachiation of apes.

"...racist content, and then turn around and make brand-spanking-new films for the year 2001 with close-up zooms on black..."

June 15, 2001 Column

Postmarks

The environment, the alleged marijuana, the traffic, Ventura's highway, and more.

"...racist content, and then turn around and make brand-spanking-new films for the year 2001 with close-up zooms on black..."

June 8, 2001 Column

Postmarks

Yoga and Starbucks. Karaoke and republicans. Squirrel rifles and Al Gore. Together for the first time in this week's letters to the editor!

"...to crash down on you, Marc, but perhaps horror films just aren't your cup of tea...."

Sept. 8, 2000 Column

No False Moves

Bill Paxton

"...Paxton -- the almost painfully nice guy in such films as Twister, Apollo 13, and the great One False..."

March 7, 1997 Screens Feature by Patrick Taggart