Screen Rats

O llie Laker is no stranger to heights. The Bristol-based rope access and rigging expert helps camera operators to reach new vantage points in the forest canopy on nat…

F ilm and food are intricately linked. If you think of Matilda, you think of Bruce Bogtrotter’s chocolate cake. If you think of Pulp Fiction, the Big Kahuna burger mig…

P erformance anxiety is the main baddie in the lightly eccentric family musical Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile, based on Bernard Waber’s beloved children’s book first published…

H ere we go again. All Quiet on the Western Front ’22 is the first German-language adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque’s classic war novel, not a remake of the 1930 Hol…

W hen a familiar actor switches to directing, there is the temptation to look for parallels with the films of directors they’ve worked with, particularly when there ha…

M ercury Pictures Presents is a sweeping historical novel rich in the details and textures of a Los Angeles that played host to a bounty of European émigrés. Despite t…

A dapted from Miriam Toews’ 2018 novel – itself based on the real-life happenings of the Manitoba Colony of Bolivia in 2011 – Sarah Polley’s Women Talking surveys a gr…

J ames Morosini’s debut feature, I Love My Dad, is personal to a fault. The opening title card insists to viewers that “this actually happened to [him]” and, whilst th…

M arcel Proust gets a couple of mentions in A Cooler Climate, James Ivory ’s memoir-film fondly reflecting on his salad days spent in Afghanistan during 1960. The 94-y…

A rtists tend to face the constant scourge of being asked by journalists to list their influences. What was your influence behind that scene? Did you reference this in…

W hen people talk about Irish animation studio Cartoon Saloon’s traditionalism, they’re not just talking about the exquisite 2D animation which has become their hallma…