Screen Rats

B ased on Samuel D Hunter’s play of the same name, The Whale depicts the final week in the life of a morbidly obese man who has developed an eating disorder in the yea…

F or all the arguing about the future of brick-and-mortar cinemas, it’s easy to lose sight of the fact that people do indeed like the act of going to the movies — it’s…

W riting can be a lonely pursuit, and authors must often rely on those closest to them for support and feedback as they attempt to navigate the process of constructing…

C harlotte Regan has long been a promising talent on the shorts and music video circuit, with her film Standby nominated for a BAFTA in 2017. She makes the leap to fea…

F or a long time sci-fi films have depicted the possibility of an alien invasion of earth as something terrifying. Buildings will crumble, humans will be subjugated, a…

W hen Andrea Riseborough ‘s name was called alongside her fellow Best Actress nominees at this past Tuesday’s Academy Award announcement ceremony, much of the chatter …

I n his 1920s-set Babylon , Damien Chazelle reprises La La Land ’s fascination with Hollywood. La La Land played homage to a bygone chapter of Hollywood history with i…

W illiam Oldroyd’s searing 2016 period drama Lady Macbeth was a thorny tale of female repression and desire that made a star out of its leading lady Florence Pugh – i…

W atching films all-day, every day at a film festival can mean they all blur into a carousel of images until – suddenly – one cuts through and you’re in a daze outside…

I n the cut throat world of corporate trading, there’s little room for sentimentality. Young lovers Luke (Alden Ehrenreich) and Emily (Phoebe Dynevor) seem cognisant o…

T he day has finally come: Hollywood has allowed Gerard Butler to play a Scotsman again. He’s so giddy about it, in fact, that within the first 10 minutes of Plane – J…

S ince he broke out in 2019 with his impressive supporting role in Joe Talbot’s The Last Black Man in San Francisco , Jonathan Majors has become one of the most captiv…

“I gotta say, it sounds like I was born in the wrong time.” Uttered by human lie detector Charlie Cox, these lines might as well refer the actor who plays her: the th…

A t the beginning of January, a porter (Samuel Finzi) and an Old Man (Iossif Surchadziev) while away their time eating walnuts and doing a crossword as they await the …

Z oe (Mamma Mia darling Lily James), a documentary film-maker, is looking for her next project and is met with a wave of unenthusiasm from her investors. Suddenly, her…

E ntertainment reporters may throw around the phrase “festival season” because it sometimes helps us spin a narrative out of twelve months, but film festivals are real…

T he pandemic seems to have been a period of introspection for some of our most revered filmmakers with the cine-memoir becoming a recurring theme. James Gray chose t…

W hen Maya (Hannah John-Kamen) learns that she is pregnant, her husband Jamie (Douglas Booth) purchases a celebratory bottle of alcohol-free Prosecco from the corner s…

2 022 was an exceptionally tricky year for Oscar prognostication, with a larger-than-usual number of maybes and only a scant handful of locks jockeying for the ten spo…