Screen Rats

I n the UK, LGBTQ+ hate crimes have been steadily rising over the past five years. Incidents against trans people have increased to 186% and 112% on the basis of sexu…

C hristmastime is often filled with grand expectations and fraught with unrealised desires which makes it the perfect setting for a film about inescapable, twisted fam…

M y first encounter with the work of Aki Kaurismäki was on an awkward date. Which, if you’ve seen any of the filmmaker’s work, is very on brand. It was a press screeni…

W hen you see guys with droopy jaws, immaculate greased side-partings, slightly ill-fitting leather jackets, and a flask of unidentified hooch in their breast pocket, …

U sually when you’re watching a film by the Mexican filmmaker Amat Escalante, you’re constantly asking the question: “I wonder when this character is going to die, and…

T he Eternal Daughter opens on a shot of mist drifting across a wooded section of road. A white taxi cab, fog lights on, glides like a ghost out of the mist towards us…

N ot far into Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, Scott Pilgrim, well, takes off. In this new, looser adaptation, created and written by Bryan Lee O’Malley and BenDavid Grabinski…

Anton Bitel provides a look at six titles heading to streaming and physical media releases this month that you should add to the top of your viewing list.   Ghost…

T he International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) is one of the largest events of its kind, bringing together filmmakers, industry experts, journalists and film…

“O f course I loved Felix,” Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan) admits readily, staring down the camera lens. “But was I  in love  with him?” He scoffs and shakes his head. T…

W hen the first trailer for Ridley Scott’s long-awaited Napoleon biopic dropped in July, various historians had a lot to say about how Sir Rid seemed to be portraying …

G ood filmmaking is all about knowing when to stop. Yes, there are cool camera moves and killer line readings and blissful moments of high drama, but if at the end of …

T he lights go down and the audience succumbs to the auditorium’s quiet. Activity settles in anticipation as the familiar title card ‘Our Feature Presentation’ appears…