Screen Rats

T he Boy and the Heron may or may not be Hayao Miyazaki’s last film. The 82-year-old Studio Ghibli head previously announced his retirement after completing Princess M…

T he duality of memory is a concept that human beings have been forced to grapple with ever since our brains first functioned with even the slightest indication of coh…

E very bartender knows that the hardest part of the job is controlling the room. But The Royal Hotel, the Australian Outback outpost in the new film by Kitty Green wou…

S tepping into the household of healthcare worker Dita (Anamaria Marinca) can be a little disorienting at first. Nameless people bust in and out of rooms in loud, over…

B ill and Turner Ross have been steadily making a name for themselves on the American independent film circuit for some time now, but it’s fair to say that their break…

T he term “outsider art” refers to a category of work which has been created outside of the conventional art world. Outsider artists are often self-taught, and so ther…

I n her book ‘Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories’, the scholar Elizabeth Freeman introduces a capacious concept she calls “temporal drag”. It’s the “grav…

I n the slums of Wakaliga within the Ugandan capital of Kampala lies a cradle of grassroots action cinema and the first makeshift brick in the foundations of the Ugand…

P ublished in August 2020, barely three months after the murder of George Floyd by the Minneapolis police, Isabel Wilkerson’s ‘Caste: The Origin of Our Discontents’ fo…

I t’s been a busy year for Sofia Coppola. In between shooting her Priscilla Presley biopic and a tribute to Suntory whisky with her good pal Keanu Reeves, she’s also…

“H ome of Da Best of Da Best Movies”, full of “supa action”, the films emerging from Wakaliwood – the action movies made by Ramon Film Productions out of Wakaliga, th…