Screen Rats

I f you can hear a faint rumbling out in the middle distance, that’s likely the sound of movies amassing on the horizon ready for their festival season premiers. Altho…

J ustin Kurzel is quickly becoming the foremost cinematic chronicler of Australian true crime. Having kicked off his directing career in 2011 with Snowtown, recalling …

I ’m sorry but this is not a Minions movie. Who is the correct person to direct my ire/a lawsuit against for this matter? By my strict calculations, the film Minions: …

Paulina Porizkova reveals why her marriage to Cars frontman Ric Ocasek ended while stripping down to lingerie Paulina Porizkova detailed the breakdown of her marria…

I t’s been four years since Lars Von Trier last bestowed new work upon us with The House That Jack Built , and much like the antihero leading that film, he’s spent th…

“P etition for the canonisation of Lady Di?” lies Amelie, as she knocks on doors in her Technicolor world, far from the sun-bleached corner shop window of this documen…

W hen Gillian Robespierre’s Obvious Child was released in 2014, it set a new standard for the portrayal of abortion in media. Many previous films that dealt with the …

O n my last day in Cluj, the historic capital of Transylvania, I went into a cafe to order a cold brew. Behind the counter stood a girl from Ukraine. She told me that …

V iewers like to throw around the term “films” willy-nilly, but the fact of the matter is that most movies we watch would be more accurately described as videos. Wheth…

C ontent in her spinsterhood, a delusional romanticist and the number one fan of romance novelist Paul Sheldon, Kathy Bates invites the audience to underestimate her a…

W im Wenders is in London accompanying new restorations of a number of his classic movies, in collaboration with Curzon for a season called Kino Dreams. Although he st…

I n 1973 the United States Supreme Court made a ruling that protected abortion as a constitutional right in America. The landmark case, known as Roe v. Wade , was bro…

C rikey, is that the time? As we reach the over-half-way mark of 2022, it’s a good time to look forward to the films yet to come in our cinematic calendar – both the b…