Screen Rats

M any have tried to censor John Waters. Many have tried to silence John Waters. Many have tried to, if you will, “cancel” John Waters. For every person who is aghast a…

O n July 15, 1974, a Sarasota television network reporter named Christine Chubbuck began her live broadcast by saying “In keeping with Channel 40’s policy of bringing …

W ith yesterday’s tectonic announcement of the Venice Film Festival program comes a wave of aftershocks in the form of teasers meant to drum up excitement for the tit…

S ince 2004, the Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival (GAIFF) has been celebrating cinema from a region at the crossroads of cultures. Many countries in …

R obin Williams displays a remarkable emotional range with seemingly little effort as the lead character in George Roy Hill’s 1982 dramedy The World According to Garp.…

N o rest for the wicked, and there aren’t many directors as committed to the cause of wickedness as Guillermo del Toro . The genre-cinema veteran gave us his fiendish …

N othing says Iranian New Wave like cramped road trips, mesmerising wide shots, long takes, a leisurely pace, child actors and deceptively low narrative stakes that es…

A s the son of one of Iran’s most beloved filmmakers, releasing your first film into the world must be a daunting experience. Yet with Hit the Road, a Cannes Quinzaine…

W hile cinephiles the globe over sweat their way through a miserable planetary heat wave, the thought of fall’s arrival is on everyone’s mind, both for reasons of decl…

O ne of the great things about the 1960s/1970s era of Hollywood filmmaking is that studios did not fear the concept trailer. Those instances where you’re not just serv…

P latforms such as TikTok and Instagram provide an outlet for people who want to film themselves doing daredevil stunts. Swipe: guy cracks his nuts on a bannister afte…

I t does not take long to find out why Johnnie To’s feature is called Running Out Of Time. For it begins with a man, Cheung Wah (Andy Lau), walking determinedly up a …

P rior to the release of their 2007 concert film/arthouse documentary hybrid Mirior Noir, Arcade Fire’s Win Butler gave an interview to Pitchfork where he admitted hi…

N ext week, the selection committee at the Venice Film Festival will pull back the curtain on their picks for this year’s program, but as anyone attuned to the festiva…

I n Jordan Peele’s latest masterpiece, we meet OJ and Emerald Haywood, a brother and sister duo played respectively by Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer, as they take on …