Screen Rats

I n the 2013 dark comedy Everyone’s Going to Die, writer/director collective Jones set out their stall early. Melanie (Nora Tschirner) wakes up dazed and blurry-eyed f…

A fter nearly 40 years of iteration, perhaps the most immediately striking thing about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is how gangly the Ninja Turtles now …

A t the outset, it felt like the cinemas of Pakistan were just as excited for Barbenheimer as the local movie-goer community. Local theaters were offering two-for-one…

O n Thursday 20th July the stars Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer walked out of their London premier. The American actors’ union SAG-AFTRA had voted to strike, and so …

U nlike most forms of popular music, heavy metal has a definitive origin story that both fans and scholars can agree on: in the beginning, there was Black Sabbath. Of …

I n the realm of contemporary culture few can be said to effectively evoke the image of the effortlessly cool girl that has become synonymous with the name Jane Birkin…

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…

T he week before the 34th edition of Festival international du cinéma de Marseille (FIDM), there is trouble in the air. Since the death of 17-year-old Nahel Merzouk a…

T here’s something very moving about watching a film and being able to see dust motes float in the air. Or the reddened, mottled skin on the back of an actor’s neck. O…

I f you don’t know what you want to do with your life by the time you’ve left your teens, you might get the feeling that you’re somehow falling behind. Despite the fac…

T he writer, critic, cultural historian, hiking enthusiast and all-round intrepid man of letters Mark Cousins does himself a disservice by minimising his own redoubtab…

I t’s a great shame that throughout the Barbie press cycle, seemingly no one has asked Greta Gerwig about Marcel Proust. The multihyphenate is an avowed fan – there’s …

I n early June, Studio Ghibli announced that animation legend Hayao Miyazaki’s most recent – and apparently, final – film How Do You Live? (retitled The Boy and the He…