Screen Rats

“Y ou dream in a language I can’t understand,” Arthur (John Magaro) tells Nora (Greta Lee) when commenting on how she only sleep talks in Korean. The two are nested in…

E very few years or so , an article pops up lamenting that there are no real movie stars anymore. I go back and forth on whether or not I agree – certainly an uptick…

T he incredible composer, pianist, and environmental activist Ryuichi Sakamoto passed away earlier this year, on 28 March, 2023. Filmed over a week in September 2022, …

T he liminal space of the motorway service station doesn’t garner much attention in the media. These buildings exist out of necessity rather than desire, allowing driv…

S hattered Glass depicts a time ancient enough that, when my colleagues and I watched it, we marvelled at the notion of a magazine writer getting their own office. It …

I n a 2016 interview with Vanity Fair, Jennifer Garner was asked about her marriage to Ben Affleck, which ended the previous year. “He’s just a complicated guy,” Garne…

R yusuke Hamaguchi’s Evil Does Not Exist opens beneath a canopy of trees, stripped bare by winter. We glide forward with our gaze fixed upwards at their branches, grey…

A title card quoting William Friedkin preceded the Venice premiere of his final film, playing just a few weeks after his passing aged 87. “All of the films I have made…

D avid Fincher is among our best chroniclers of morally grey – or indeed morally bankrupt – individuals, from Fight Club through to Gone Girl . In one fashion or anoth…

O f the many pop culture assets that Bertrand Bonello’s The Beast calls to mind, perhaps the most obvious is Michel Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, abo…

I n August perennial provocateur Harmony Korine announced the formation of his new multi-media company ‘EDGLRD’, described as “a design collective; it’s a creative fac…