Screen Rats

Neil Jordan’s 1992 The Crying Game is a film that was almost not made at all. “ At the time nobody wanted to back it,” said Jordan in an interview with the Irish Times…

G rowing up in the early 2000s, the live-action Scooby-Doo movie was a regular Saturday night video rental in my house – 20 years since its release, the film evokes …

E mma Thompson plays to her formidable strengths as Nancy, a caustic but kind RE teacher, recently widowed, who has lived a sexually-unfulfilled existence. She has nev…

N inja Thyberg has spent years studying the production and impact of the adult film industry. After completing a short film about the porn industry which received accl…

“Y ou ladies are dangerous. This is America.” The speaker is landlord Mr Albertson (Jim Backus), surprised, as he evicts Melba Stokes (Cloris Leachman) and her mother …

J F Lawton’s screenplay ‘3,000’, about the plight of a young cocaine-addicted sex worker in a financially wiped-out America, was the kernel that became Pretty Woman. W…

F rom its very opening, Pleasure denies its viewers dominance: the kind inherent to pornographic consumption, as the black screen vibrates with moans, growling and aff…

C hoose one film to represent the essence of golden-age Hollywood, and George Cukor’s A Star is Born could well be a contender. There’s the glamour of starpacked, floo…

U do Kier steps into the spotlight of an empty theatre in the opening moments of Swan Song, his all-white outfit and chunk rings glistening as he professes: “I’m back.…

I t has been more than ten years since Michelangelo Frammartino’s philosophical and metaphysical pastoral reverie Le quattro volte debuted to critical acclaim. Now, th…

Kanye West says Kim Kardashian is 'still my wife' amid Pete Davidson dating rumors Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson continue to fuel rumors of a romance; me…