Screen Rats

M any franchise creators claim to have envisioned a series of lucrative sequels as part of the plan all along but that was never the case for Jurassic Park. The summer…

T he title of writer/director Andrew Gaynord’s feature debut is a tad deceiving. Not all of Pete’s (Tom Stourton) friends hate him, but the uni mates who gather for h…

I t has been 11 long years since the Italian filmmaker Michelangelo Frammartino graced us with his wonderful, goat-filled doc-fiction hybrid, Le Quattro Volte, but the…

M uch like the dreadlocked intergalactic hunter at its center, the Predator franchise just cannot be killed, no matter how many attempted reboots must fizzle out along…

I t would be reductive, though not untrue, to say that Lucile Hadžihalilović enjoys disturbing her audience. Her first two features, Innocence and Evolution , are slo…

I n Lucile Hadžihalilović’s Earwig, images of cruelty and tenderness circle one another. Adapted from the novel by Brian Catling, Aalbert (Paul Hilton) is the caretake…

“Y ou are all in good health, but you cannot imagine the supreme happiness an epileptic feels in the moments before a fit. I would give perhaps my whole life in exchan…

O ften referred to as the father of British documentary filmmaking, John Grierson is definitely a well known name. The same cannot necessarily be said for his sisters,…

S omething I’ve always loved about horror movies was their female protagonists. Although many still reduced women to future victims, characters such as Halloween’s Lau…

B ergman Island is a new film by the French writer-director Mia Hansen-Løve, which explores the relationship between two filmmakers – Vicky Krieps’ Chris and Tim Roth’…

F ew films show so much disdain for men as Bergman Island. Set on the Swedish island of Fårö where Ingmar Bergman lived, Mia Hansen-Løve uses the framework of a coupl…