Screen Rats

P aired with The Novelist’s Film which premiered earlier this year, Hong Sang-soo’s latest Walk Up is another boutique noir that explores his recurrent themes of arti…

W ith The Woman King, director Gina Prince-Bythewood masterfully helms the epic woman led action film she has been building toward over her 20 year career. It focuses …

A nything is possible, as we’ve learned from this year in movies; Todd Field , David Cronenberg , David O. Russell , and Sarah Polley all emerged from long hiatuses w…

A seminal work in more ways than one, the 1908 novel Josefine Mutzenbacher or the Story of a Viennese Whore, as Told by Herself catalogues a smorgasbord of explicit s…

T he key to good cooking is balance. A meal with no salt is bland, add too much and it’s ruined. Recreating a restaurant on screen needs that same balance: chaotic but…

T he Terrence Malick rumour mill was set spinning in 2019, as Mark Rylance was poised to begin shooting the director’s then-titled passion project The Last Planet. “Te…

P atricio Guzmán’s introspective narration lingers over drone-mapped footage of the Andes, one of the world’s longest cordilleras (mountain ranges) as the shadow of t…

T he tricky part of making a good pandemic movie is that the experiential components of the past two-and-a-half years — mostly, an oscillation between wall-climbing te…

L uca Guadagnino is having what Hollywood insiders call “a moment,” which is what you say when more than one thing happens to a famous person at a single time. The It…

T he year is 1973, and it’s a strange time to be living in America. The country is on the precipice of a huge cultural shift, in part owing to the tumultuous events of…

I n 1967, Bonnie and Clyde lit the fuse for a Hollywood revolution, confounding the critical establishment, attracting droves of wide-eyed audiences who’d never seen a…