Screen Rats

T he lights go down and the audience succumbs to the auditorium’s quiet. Activity settles in anticipation as the familiar title card ‘Our Feature Presentation’ appears…

A dding melodrama to the seemingly endless list of genres he can turn his hand to, Todd Haynes creates a thorny, completely compelling feature from Samy Burch’s acerbi…

W ithin the VHS-infused neon haze of Amanda Kramer’s Give Me Pity! resides an unhinged, ghostly presence hungry for spectacle. Its haunting is incessant as it intercep…

S cene: One sweaty summer in 1950s New Orleans, a tearful, brittle Southern Belle faces accusations of promiscuity from a suitor. He’s discovered this genteel teacher …

A lready this decade Kristoffer Borgli has established himself as a satirist of the branded self. His calling card short Former Cult Member Hears Music for the First T…

T here are few cinematic imaginations as delightfully surreal, as full of wonder, and as critically divisive as the one belonging to filmmaker Tarsem Singh Dhandwar. O…

A young Buddhist monk and a wizened old man are soaring through the forest, running on air as if weightless. The old man’s white hair and robes stream behind him as h…

W hen David Fincher brought Chuck Palahniuk’s landmark cult novel Fight Club to the big screen in 1999, he created a monster. Brad Pitt’s Tyler Durden became an inspir…

T he first thing my coach did when I stepped into the boxing ring was readjust my position. The second thing he did was tell me that if he ever had to move me about, I…

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…

T his is a film which plays into our societal fixation with and trust of technology as an apparatus that could be more trustworthy than the signals generated by our ow…