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 viewing list. Gothic, …

I t’s been too long since the Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Silva has been in our midst, and he returns with a palm-sweating satirical comedy in which the most heinous, …

I n one scene, characters actually watch Roman Polanski’s byzantine saga of LA corruption on VHS while enjoying what the town paper once called “the Marilyn Monroe of …

T he prospect of this anniversary issue has been something of an obsession for a number of years now. In the world of print magazines, you’re constantly asking yourse…

T he title of Pedro Almodóvar’s 30-minute short film is a reference to Portuguese fado singer Amália Rodrigues’ ‘Estranha Forma de Vida’ – a ballad about a woman with …

T he city of Fremont in California has the largest Afghan population in the US – some 30,000 call the city home, leading to its affectionate nickname of Little Kabul. …

I n Next Goal Wins, Taika Waititi depicts Samoans the same way he depicted Hitler: as absolutely adorable. Based on Mike Brett and Steve Jamison’s 2014 documentary of …

A day in the life of a restaurateur and Frederick Wiseman’s latest film begin in the same way: at the food market. Fingers carefully peruse fresh produce as if valuab…

I n the elegantly simple board game Othello, two opponents – one placing down black counters, the other white – aim to have the most pieces on the board. Players can o…

C ar culture is neoliberal culture: The promise of personal liberty, of mobility and agency in navigating the world, means trading away the commons for competition, ev…

W ith his first fiction feature, 2019’s police-brutality drama Les Misérables, Ladj Ly won the Jury Prize at Cannes and the César for Best Film, and more or less insta…