Screen Rats

S ometimes the slovenly industrial mechanisms of traditional film production are just not the right fit for certain projects. British filmmaker Marc Issacs, known for …

T he cinema to broadway musical and then back to cinema pipeline is big news in Hollywood, CA, right now, with a glossy, toe-tapping new version of The Color Purple co…

T he first shot of I Saw The TV Glow is quite the opening salvo. The camera creeps along a suburban street just after dusk, passing over tangled veiny chalk art, the w…

A s the wintery, back-to-work blues of January finally begins to subside, we have news of a very bright near-future, as at the end of February the Glasgow Film Festiva…

A sleek but cold skyscraper in Croydon is the primary setting for Andrew Haigh’s queer adaptation of Taichi Yamada’s 1987 novel ‘Strangers’. Screenwriter Adam (Andrew…

T he worlds of professional football and global film festivals are closer bedfellows than you might initially imagine. Lately, the idea of a film festival employing an…

G ottleib is in trouble. Since the death of his wife, Ben (Jason Schwartzman) has found himself in a place of personal and professional crisis. He’s moved back in with…

D aniel Kaluuya and Kibwe Tavares make their feature film debut with The Kitchen , a dystopian drama that follows Izi (Kane Robinson) whose focus is on getting out of …

F ilmmaker. Dream-weaver. Footwear-epicure. Whatever your impression of Werner Herzog is, this affectionate docuprofile is unlikely to drastically alter it. And that’s…

“T hey can only stop We, if We see We as I” is the mantra that rings out over The Kitchen, the last standing social housing estate in a dystopian near-future London. T…

W hen Jeymes Samuel exploded onto the scene with 2021’s bombastic all-Black western The Harder They Fall , it heralded the arrival of a fresh, intriguing perspective. …

F or the last decade, it seemed that Alexander Payne had lost his touch. After the critical success of Nebraska in 2013, the American director fell short with 2017’s …

S artre wrote that “Hell is other people” but I’ll be more specific: Hell is teenage girls. Whether you’ve been one, raised one, or merely survived an education among …

L eaning into his reputation as the director behind films that exist purely for your dad to fall asleep watching in his favourite armchair, George Clooney’s latest out…

A few minutes into David Ayer’s The Beekeeper, there’s a charming exchange between gruff retired secret agent Adam Clay (Jason Statham) and his landlady, sweet old la…

W e all know that social media is the main reason why public discourse has lost any sense of courtesy and diplomacy in the modern age. What Nicole Newnham’s documentar…

T ower Bridge. The chime of a bell. We see the back of a brunette woman’s head against a leaden sky, her hair tightly tucked in a bun. Then, her cobalt blue gown flaps…

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. Lord of …

Y orgos Lanthimos’ canonisation as an exciting new voice in modern cinema was almost instantaneous when, back in 2009, his ingenious and provocative third feature, Dog…