Screen Rats

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 shopping list. A Momen…

I t’s been a hot minute since there’s been any UK sightings of films by the talented Italian director Emanuele Crialese. Certainly the last memorable one was way back …

I n a world where blood is being squeezed out of every IP stone, Disney Land’s Haunted Mansion ride being turned into a second live-action film barely raises an eyebro…

B ette Gordon grew up watching New York City in black-and-white movies. When she moved there in the late ’70s, she was a visual artist and filmmaker at one of the wors…

E na Sendijarević’s penchant for the idiosyncratic and absurd continues with her second feature, a thoroughly enjoyable period piece that deals with complex colonial d…

H otel Mirage is an all-inclusive resort on an unnamed Greek island that provides the backdrop to Sofia Exarchou’s second feature. Day in, day out, a group of hardwork…

S ince her 2012 debut Augustine, French filmmaker Alice Winocour has proven she’s able to turn her hand to seemingly any genre, from the home invasion thriller Disorde…

G uy Ritchie’s debut feature, 1998’s Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, opens not with the former child star (Dexter Fletcher), nor with the stunt-cast footballer-tu…

First-time filmmaker D Smith imbues her feature debut with a vibrant, immediate energy that feels incredibly unique. Clocking in at a tight 70 minutes, Kokomo City cen…

I was 21 years old when I first saw Little Women . It was six days after I broke up with my then-girlfriend, and four days after I had rebound sex in a parking garage…

I t starts out as an ordinary day for Mia, a journalist and translator who works at a radio station in Paris. She takes her motorcycle to work; she meets her husband V…