Screen Rats

W ithin the pristine white walls of the Serpentine Gallery set in the manicured serenity of Hyde Park, there is another London – one that was left to burn. In a 24 min…

I t’s six years since the Guardians of the Galaxy had their last formal outing (there was a 40-minute holiday special that aired on Disney+ in November 2022, but to pa…

W hen Stu (Ed Helms) wakes up in a Bangkok bathroom in The Hangover Part II , he has a sore head not just because of his stinking hangover but also because of the trib…

T here are so many different modes of survival depending on all matter of circumstances including class, race, sexual orientation and gender. In Lola Quivoron’s daring…

I f you take a peek at Priya Kansara’s acting CV, you’ll currently only see a couple of credits: three short films; small roles in two Netflix series; and now, the lea…

W ithout unduly denigrating the achievements of Richard Wayne Penniman, – or, the artist formerly known as Little Richard – there was a perception that he was a one-of…

“I ’m not a girl, I’m a woman,” are the stabbing words spoken by Dalva (Zelda Samson), a 12-year-old who wears heavy makeup, scrapes her hair into a bun and dresses in…

N ida Manzoor, taking bites of a sugar-dusted cookie in a swanky Soho hotel, politely fudges the F-word. The only time she goes the full F-U-C-K is when scolding herse…

J ames Bond has fought megalomaniacs across the world, but rarely has he battled his most dangerous enemy – himself. Forty years ago, the thirteenth Bond adventure (an…

‘P olite society’ is a turn of phrase that came to prominence in the late 1700s, epitomising haughty upper-class judgement that deemed certain behaviour to be unbecomi…

I n an interview with Stephen Colbert to promote Renfield , Nicolas Cage listed his top five Nic Cage films : Pig , Mandy , Bringing Out the Dead , Bad Lieutenant , an…

1 953 was a landmark year for science fiction cinema. Universal stunned audiences with 3D thrills in It Came from Outer Space, Warner Bros. released the hugely influen…

I n 1975, when Junya Sato’s The Bullet Train (Shinkansen daibakuha) was released, Japan’s Shinkansen , or ‘new main line’ – the world’s first high-speed train system –…

M ade over the course of 7 years, adapting Takehide Hori’s short film of the same name, Junk Head is a grimy, Švankmajer-esque spelunking into an absurd world where fu…