Screen Rats

E arlier this year, three ex-military officers presented testimony to U.S. Congress detailing sightings of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (“UAPs”, as UFOs are now ca…

T he concept of trauma has us in a cultural headlock. Nowadays you can’t watch a reality competition without being confronted by someone’s heartbreaking backstory, as …

C onviction is something the British writer/director Carol Morley possesses in abundance – certainly on the evidence of her wild filmography. Determined to use film to…

D avid Fincher is among our best chroniclers of morally grey – or indeed morally bankrupt – individuals, from Fight Club through to Gone Girl . In one fashion or anoth…

I f you were on the internet in 2017, you probably knew about Cat Person. The New Yorker short story by Kristen Roupenian set the internet ablaze, praised for its sea…

W hile at a press screening of Emma Tammi’s Five Nights at Freddy’s, during one of the many, many scenes of Josh Hutcherson slumped over looking very glum, I noticed a…

“I f I’ma be sad, I’ma do it with pizzazz,” sings Canadian rapper Akintoye in his viral TikTok song ‘ Pizzazz ’. Fans of the cult filmmaker (and likewise Canadian) Guy…

I n a delicious example of nominative determinism, British horror powerhouse Hammer Film Productions was recently acquired by theatre producer John Gore. He will overs…

O n a 1996 episode of Siskel and Ebert, Roger Ebert’s praise of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg is helmed by the film’s refusal to provide a happy ending: it’s a film about…

“R ock had a sizable dick,” says Joe Carberry, a former lover of Rock Hudson. “He tried to put that thing up my ass and I couldn’t do it!” Frankly, these are the detai…

I n the 1975 musical A Chorus Line, auditionee Sheila says that she started dancing after seeing The Red Shoes as a girl before singing that “everything was beautiful …

W hen it comes to the climate apocalypse, we’ve already passed about 20 predicted deadlines for the “point of no return”. And maybe we are. Could plans for the future …

K illers of the Flower Moon, Martin Scorsese’s sorrowful epic of twisted love, genocide, and the evildoing of white America, hits cinemas this weekend to overwhelming …