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Shelagh Rowan-Legg

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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 92% 4/5 EDIT “28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is a more than worthy follow up to last year's film, visually glorious, a great sense of ironic humour, and drops enough literal and proverbial needles to make an audience applaud and craving for more.” – ScreenAnarchy Jan 13, 2026 Full Review Keeper (2025) 53% 3.5/5 EDIT “Keeper is more in keeping (no pun intended) with Longlegs and his other films: brilliant work in cinematography, sound, pacing, and keeping its audience terrified by anticipation, while perhaps not paying quite so much attention to story.” – ScreenAnarchy Nov 14, 2025 Full Review Die My Love (2025) 74% 4/5 EDIT “Die, My Love is both Ramsay and her star Lawrence at their most angrily raw and immediate, screaming because no one has listened to them when they speak plainly. Sometimes only screaming and setting fire to the world will be enough.” – ScreenAnarchy Nov 4, 2025 Full Review Aki (2025) 4/5 EDIT “Naponse has crafted what feels, maybe not a love letter as such, but more a unique diary entry into a world that few outsiders get to see, and asks us to understand it on its own terms.” – ScreenAnarchy Sep 15, 2025 Full Review Adulthood (2025) 77% 3/5 EDIT “Starting from a great premise and having two actors who make their characters and the relationship work is the key to Adulthood's dark humour and how an audience, especially those of us with siblings and elderly parents, can relate to them. ” – ScreenAnarchy Sep 15, 2025 Full Review Honey Bunch (2025) 86% 3.5/5 EDIT “A love story with some creepy scientific experiments that challenged a couple's idea of what love is. Honey Bunch is an artichoke where each layer is a question that uncovers more questions until we get to the heart of the matter. ” – ScreenAnarchy Sep 15, 2025 Full Review Dust Bunny (2025) 85% 3.5/5 EDIT “Dust Bunny will certainly appeal to fans of Fuller's television work, given how it straddles the line between whimsy and gruesomeness. It's a highly enjoyable tale with an adorable kid and an adorable curmudgeon who learn to have each other's backs.” – ScreenAnarchy Sep 12, 2025 Full Review Mārama (2025) 100% 3.5/5 EDIT “Rich in its visual composition and lead performance, Mārama might be a little rushed, but it works the gothic tropes effectively to tell its story of colonial violence and that violence’s revenging angel, meeting it with the equal violence it has earned.” – ScreenAnarchy Sep 11, 2025 Full Review Amoeba (2025) 100% 3.5/5 EDIT “ Amoeba shows us that teenage world of strength and sensitivity, the rites of passage these girls make for themselves in a society than denies them.” – ScreenAnarchy Sep 11, 2025 Full Review Forastera (2025) 94% 4/5 EDIT “Forastera is an atypical ghost story, one that connects the generations and suggests that which might resist, a familiarity and resemblance that we could find too close might be a necessary bridge. ” – ScreenAnarchy Sep 11, 2025 Full Review Steal Away (2025) 92% 3.5/5 EDIT “Clement Virgo has crafted a strong film in Steal Away, taking time to create a believable strange land with inhabitants all too eerily uncanny, and a pair of teen girls who take a difficult route through desire to find their truth.” – ScreenAnarchy Sep 11, 2025 Full Review Hedda (2025) 89% 5/5 EDIT “A sultry and vibrant story of repression and desire, DaCosta smoothly and smartly brings Hedda into the 20th century and shows how its story of women's ambition and men's power still reflects and resonates. ” – ScreenAnarchy Sep 8, 2025 Full Review Rose of Nevada (2025) 100% 5/5 EDIT “Rose of Nevada once again shows Jenkin as a rare voice that combines artistic talent with stories of social urgency, his labour in making a film reflecting the labour that comes with community. ” – ScreenAnarchy Sep 8, 2025 Full Review Mile End Kicks (2025) 100% 3.5/5 EDIT “With a vibrant palette, a terrific soundtrack, Mile End Kicks is a worthy entry to contemporary romcoms, one that acknowledges sex, queerness, money troubles, sexism, and learning to embrace our love, our anger, and our talent.” – ScreenAnarchy Sep 5, 2025 Full Review Harvest (2024) 74% 4/5 EDIT “Harvest provides a pseudo-historical record; In what oddities we might find with those that came before we can see what we might have lost, and what we might return to, for better or worse.” – ScreenAnarchy Jul 30, 2025 Full Review Eddington (2025) 68% 3/5 EDIT “Men would rather destroy the world than go to therapy. Eddington mostly works, in which clashes between those who care and those don't, those who have media literacy and those who refuse it, lead to ruin.” – ScreenAnarchy Jul 15, 2025 Full Review Daniela Forever (2024) 65% 4/5 EDIT “Daniela Forever reads as a letter to love lost and mourned, an imagining of grief gone sideways, yet still with its moments of the uncanny, and a healthy dose of that offbeat humour that we've come to expect from Vigalondo. ” – ScreenAnarchy Jul 9, 2025 Full Review Rosa la rose, fille publique (1985) 4/5 EDIT “Rosa La Rose, fille publique feels like it was perhaps a bit unusual, of the era, in its portrayal of prostitutes and its honesty towards the lives of those on the margins and in the working classes, who find community and support in usual places. ” – ScreenAnarchy Jul 7, 2025 Full Review Eye for an Eye (2025) 92% 3/5 EDIT “Eye for an Eye is a solid entry to the 'guilty need to pay the price' canon of the genre, relishing in its sensory atmosphere, and the loneliness that comes with mourning and pain.” – ScreenAnarchy Jun 17, 2025 Full Review The Life of Chuck (2024) 80% 3/5 EDIT “The Life of Chuck doesn't say anything new. But it is a very enjoyable time at the movies, with a reminder of why we hold close those ideas and people that we do, taking it a little more into that left field of the uncanny and unexplainable. ” – ScreenAnarchy Jun 11, 2025 Full Review Sunlight (2024) 91% 3.5/5 EDIT “Sunlight brings a very unique humour to the big screen, with a story and characters that are as bizarre as they are relatable. It's a road trip of aggressive oddities, born of quiet despair, that leads to deep connection and a lot of laughter.” – ScreenAnarchy Jun 3, 2025 Full Review The Luckiest Man in America (2024) 67% 4/5 EDIT “Oliveros and Briggs have imbued The Luckiest Man in American with the oddity such a story deserves, the surreality of how a person just wins money playing in this very bizarre and nonsensical manner.” – ScreenAnarchy Apr 2, 2025 Full Review Can I Get a Witness? (2024) 67% 4/5 EDIT “With Can I Get A Witness?, piece by piece, Fleming and her cast construct this fable as a framing for how we might understand our own current turbulent times, if we can look at what might be possible. ” – ScreenAnarchy Mar 12, 2025 Full Review Disposable Humanity (2025) 4/5 EDIT “Mitchell crafts a strong story, harrowing in its history and contemporary implications, at once a kind of grassroots advocacy for forgotten voices, a study in how history is shaped and presented.” – ScreenAnarchy Mar 6, 2025 Full Review Love Hurts (2025) 18% 2.5/5 EDIT “If an action film is going to have a weak story, there needs to be enough action to make up for it, and enough comedy to fill in the blanks. Love Hurts doesn't quite deliver enough.” – ScreenAnarchy Feb 6, 2025 Full Review
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