Screen Rats

C opious amounts of blood, heated exchanges, a dramatic close call and a well-intentioned yet often clueless male partner are the standard elements of a birth scene in…

T he new romance-cum-road-movie Bones & All represents a significant plank in the evolving oeuvre of Luca Guadagnino , both as the Italian filmmaker’s daring effor…

L ike Green Book, Peter Farrelly’s The Greatest Beer Run Ever is based on a true friendship, centring on John “Chickie” Donohue (Zac Efron) of uptown Manhattan, who ov…

T hree Finnish girls on the cusp of young adulthood have their lives intersect over three consecutive Fridays. Dividing a film about contemporary girlhood in this way …

A t a secluded manor house, an avant-garde sonic catering collective begin a new residency at the behest of prim benefactor Jan Stevens ( Gwendoline Christie ). This u…

G oing into this year’s Toronto International Film Festival – the first in three years to be held primarily in-person – Weird: The Al Yankovic Story was the film that …

I t feels like every other scary movie these days eventually comes around to being About Trauma , but Parker Finn’s debut feature Smile is the only one that really mea…

W ith its surreal sketches, risqué cultural commentary and cheerily low productions values, Eurotrash was the late-night talkshow du jour in the 1990s, pulling in a …

W hen you’re a film critic, people always ask, “What is your favourite film?”, and ever since 2013 I answer very quickly and easily: Don Hertzfeldt’s It’s Such A Beaut…

B eing a teenage girl is never easy, and while the current crop of 14-year-olds might have to contend with TikTok and homework, spare a thought for the young women of …

W ith the digital era breeding countless cases of impressionable boys falling down the rabbit hole of radicalisation at the hands of the Joe Rogans, Jordan Petersons, …