Screen Rats

T he production of a film can take years and years, so it’s hard to predict the climate into which a long gestated story will be birthed. So, this, the year that saw R…

A man should never be forced to underplay the final moments of his life. The news of sudden illness surely deserve the highest level of drama and despair, as time begi…

A lthough the late Angela Lansbury played a huge variety of roles over the course of her long career, she was perhaps most associated with benign characters, thanks to…

I f you’ve ever found yourself wishing you could live in the pastel wonderlands of Wes Anderson’s work, you might want to book a stay at 100 Shoreditch – specifically…

O n Tuesday night earlier this week, Jules Bass passed away at a retirement home in Rye, New York, at the age of eighty-seven. An upstart ad-man who sold America on t…

P rognosticators have been telling of the rom-com’s imminent demise for some 30 years now, murmuring sagely that the genre just isn’t what it used to be, and studios …

I t’s been 13 years since Henry Selick’s eggy, blue-haired young protagonist tunnelled into an alternate dimension of button-eyed kin and mango milkshakes in Coraline …

From various, vaguely outrageous public appearances at film festivals across the globe, it would probably be sound to deduce that filmmaker Ruben Östlund is not a shy …

F ew who watch Gary Oldman’s impressive directorial debut Nil by Mouth are likely to forget it. The tough, relentless domestic drama came as an electric shock in a per…

I f there is a problem in society, you will most likely find Ruben Östlund in the panic room cackling at it. It’s a little futile to ask him about whether anything is …

T years ago this Halloween, the BBC accidentally beamed a live seance into television sets across the UK, causing supernatural chaos in households up and down the cou…

A woman (Georgina Campbell) goes to an Airbnb she’s reserved, only to find another visitor already there, its owner having double-booked the property through a differ…

T he romcom is dying — why? There are societal and economic factors to consider, pertaining to the collapse of mid-budget studio filmmaking and the according shift in …

M rs. Harris Goes to Paris promises a delightfully flamboyant performance from Isabelle Huppert as its villain in the latest of the esteemed French actor’s rare Anglop…

I rving Pichel and Ernest P. Schoedsack’s The Most Dangerous Game opens, appropriately enough, with an entrance – a huge wooden door, on which there is a carving of a …

T wo Irish actors at the top of their game, Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell have worked with directors including The Coen Brothers, Yorgos Lanthimos, Michael Mann an…