Screen Rats

A mong his many crimes, Joss Whedon is responsible for a seismic change in the style of dialogue favoured in modern fantasy film and television. The quippy, “so, that…

T his new comedy-drama film inspired by the popular Gameboy thumbworm, Tetris, is not a digitally-animated family adventure about how a plucky gang of geometric blocks…

I t’s been nearly a decade and a half since Edgar Wright ‘s adaptation of the Scott Pilgrim graphic novel series first came to theaters, but the fandom has only grown …

N ewlyweds Suze ( Andrea Riseborough ) and Arthur (Harry Melling) are an ostensibly straight, beatnik couple living in a bizarre, fever dream version of a 1950s Lower …

I n the 1960s, in plywood model towns reminiscent of children’s play sets, American soldiers practised riot control. These “riotsvilles” replicated the average Main St…

A black sheep boy returns to the family nest and causes all manner of emotional ballyhoo in Saela Davis and Anna Rose Holmer’s atmospheric psychodrama, God’s Creature…

S ummer traditionally heralds the arrival of blockbuster season, but with it comes a counterpoint a little closer to the arthouse. While the superhero escapades and pl…

T he practice of constructing languages harks back to the 12th century, but thanks to J.R.R. Tolkien’s fictional languages in the world of Middle-earth, many people to…

W ith the cinematic stock of Japanese author Haruki Murakami at an all-time high following the Oscar glory enjoyed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car , we now have a…

W hile he’s a household name in the USA, quarterback Tom Brady hasn’t quite announced himself on the global stage, which is probably a lot to do with the fact that Ame…

T hose unfortunate souls masochistic enough to follow the doings of film critics professional and amateur on Twitter may have noticed a peculiar uptick in viewing micr…

C hilean filmmaker Francisca Alegría heeds the call for environmental consciousness and action in her beguiling new feature The Cow Who Sang A Song Into The Future, a …

P art of the great joy of cinema is that it seemingly has no limits – great films have the capacity to transport us to entirely different worlds, challenge our percept…

N o-one knew what planet she was flung in from when they first clapped eyes on Adèle Exarchopoulos. For me, like a lot of critics I imagine, it was the 2013 Cannes pre…

I f there’s any doubt that John Wick: Chapter 4 could be more audacious than its storied predecessors, that’s wiped away almost immediately in the film’s first scene; …

I f you already own sunglasses, go and put them on now. If you don’t, then go and buy some. That’s because LWLies issue 98 is one of the most brightly coloured issues …

S pring Breakers crash-landed onto a confused world. In 2013, Girls Gone Wild had just gone bankrupt, the malignant force of Donald Trump was still several years away,…