Screen Rats

I t does not take long to find out why Johnnie To’s feature is called Running Out Of Time. For it begins with a man, Cheung Wah (Andy Lau), walking determinedly up a …

P rior to the release of their 2007 concert film/arthouse documentary hybrid Mirior Noir, Arcade Fire’s Win Butler gave an interview to Pitchfork where he admitted hi…

N ext week, the selection committee at the Venice Film Festival will pull back the curtain on their picks for this year’s program, but as anyone attuned to the festiva…

I n Jordan Peele’s latest masterpiece, we meet OJ and Emerald Haywood, a brother and sister duo played respectively by Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer, as they take on …

A rtists think they know everything, teenagers think they know everything, and when the two overlap, the levels of self-destructive self-assurance can be catastrophic.…

“L ife’s tragedy begins with the bond between parent and child.” That epigraph, found at the opening of Yasujirō Ozu’s first talkie, The Only Son (1936), could easily …

K nown for his satirical novels that both stressed and parodied the inequalities rife in modern society, author Kurt Vonnegut released 14 novels, three short story col…

D aisy Edgar-Jones is having the sort of meteoric rise that is normally confined to the final act of a Disney film. The British actress first peered out from behind a …

J ust as Norway’s Joachim Trier recently completed his Oslo trilogy with The Worst Person in the World , Jonas Carpignano has wrapped up his own Calabrian triptych wi…

I f you want to see a heavyweight world champ fighting in a piddling featherweight bout, look no further than Fernando León de Aranoa’s The Good Boss, in which Javier …

T he spa city of Karlovy Vary in the Czech Republic, with its romantic Bohemian architecture and hot thermal springs, is a striking place to host a film festival. Its …