Screen Rats

B ergman Island is a new film by the French writer-director Mia Hansen-Løve, which explores the relationship between two filmmakers – Vicky Krieps’ Chris and Tim Roth’…

F ew films show so much disdain for men as Bergman Island. Set on the Swedish island of Fårö where Ingmar Bergman lived, Mia Hansen-Løve uses the framework of a coupl…

L éonor Serraille loves headstrong, emotional women. The French director burst onto the Cannes scene when, in 2017, she won the Camera d’Or [the prize for the best fir…

T here are few cinematic joys that match the arrival of a new film by Kelly Reichardt, a director who, across a career of eight features and numerous shorts, has devel…

W hen it was announced that the Spanish filmmaker Albert Serra was set to premiere his new feature, Pacifiction, in the Cannes competition, the instant and obvious rea…

W hen I was younger I remember hearing that a broken bone heals back stronger than before. When school friends would inevitably turn up in casts after injuring themsel…

D eep in Hirokazu Koreeda’s typically gentle yet piercing new-normal family drama Broker, one character listens to Aimee Mann’s hushed ballad “Wise Up.” Like any red-b…

Kanye West says Kim Kardashian is 'still my wife' amid Pete Davidson dating rumors Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson continue to fuel rumors of a romance; me…

N o one does tacky opulence quite like Baz Luhrmann. He and Elvis Presley – the King of rock ’n’ roll and the bedazzled jumpsuit – is surely a match made in garish hea…

T here’s something about the cinema of Claire Denis that’s so immediate and primal that it’s hard to imagine her wanting to mount a lavish English-language period feat…

W ith the narrative density of a Russian doorstop novel and the searing interpersonal insights of a psychology textbook, Saeed Roustaee’s astonishing, nearly-three-hou…

I t starts out as an ordinary day for Mia, a journalist and translator who works at a radio station in Paris. She takes her motorcycle to work; she meets her husband V…

'RHOBH' star Dorit Kemsley 'grateful' she and kids weren't harmed in robbery, says castmate Garcelle Beauvais The LAPD confirmed to Fox News the…

Josie Canseco suffers a wardrobe malfunction while celebrating her 25th birthday Model Josie Canseco had all eyes on her while celebrating her 25th birthday at Deli…

Brigitte Bardot fined by French court for calling La Reunion islanders ‘degenerate savages’ This isn’t the first time that the actress-turned-animal rights activist…

Armorer demonstrates how to identify a dummy round Dummy rounds on film and TV sets generally look identical to real ones, experts say. A visual inspection isn’t en…

Ray Liotta reveals why Frank Sinatra’s daughters mailed him a horse head Nancy and Tina Sinatra sent Liotta a message inspired by the famous scene in "The Godf…

I n a grim version of the future where humans have evolved past the point of being able to feel pain, surgery is the new sex. Performance artists cut themselves open f…

F ew things stifle creativity like suburbia, and teenage cartoonist Robert (Daniel Zolghadri) can’t stand it any longer. Eschewing his parents’ expectations he go to c…

B ig-budget biopics about musical icons are all the rage these days: think Elvis, Aretha, Elton and Queen, to name but a few. We’ve already had someone play David Bowi…

A feature-length outing for the Belcher family – of Fox’s Bob’s Burgers animated sitcom fame – has been a long time coming. The Bob’s Burgers Movie was announced back…

A quote from Chinese philosopher Confucius looms over the central duo of Park Chan-wook’s Decision to Leave: “The wise man admires water, the kind man admires mountai…

“D o you think an actress needs to be an exhibitionist?” asks a theatre director to an auditionee at the beginning of Forever Young, a film that could have ended in th…

T he French writer Annie Ernaux is having a moment: 2021’s Golden Lion winner Happening was adapted from her book recounting her illegal abortion in 1963. Many of Ern…