Screen Rats

S ometimes the slovenly industrial mechanisms of traditional film production are just not the right fit for certain projects. British filmmaker Marc Issacs, known for …

T he cinema to broadway musical and then back to cinema pipeline is big news in Hollywood, CA, right now, with a glossy, toe-tapping new version of The Color Purple co…

T he first shot of I Saw The TV Glow is quite the opening salvo. The camera creeps along a suburban street just after dusk, passing over tangled veiny chalk art, the w…

A s the wintery, back-to-work blues of January finally begins to subside, we have news of a very bright near-future, as at the end of February the Glasgow Film Festiva…

A sleek but cold skyscraper in Croydon is the primary setting for Andrew Haigh’s queer adaptation of Taichi Yamada’s 1987 novel ‘Strangers’. Screenwriter Adam (Andrew…

T he worlds of professional football and global film festivals are closer bedfellows than you might initially imagine. Lately, the idea of a film festival employing an…

G ottleib is in trouble. Since the death of his wife, Ben (Jason Schwartzman) has found himself in a place of personal and professional crisis. He’s moved back in with…

D aniel Kaluuya and Kibwe Tavares make their feature film debut with The Kitchen , a dystopian drama that follows Izi (Kane Robinson) whose focus is on getting out of …

F ilmmaker. Dream-weaver. Footwear-epicure. Whatever your impression of Werner Herzog is, this affectionate docuprofile is unlikely to drastically alter it. And that’s…

“T hey can only stop We, if We see We as I” is the mantra that rings out over The Kitchen, the last standing social housing estate in a dystopian near-future London. T…

W hen Jeymes Samuel exploded onto the scene with 2021’s bombastic all-Black western The Harder They Fall , it heralded the arrival of a fresh, intriguing perspective. …