Screen Rats

W hen Marilyn Monroe died on 4 August, 1962, her legacy was writ in water. The bulk of her estate passed to her beloved acting coach Lee Strasberg who passed soon afte…

“G uests are aways welcome in our town,” police chief Giuseppe (Claudio Bigagli) tells Anna (Agnieszka Żulewska) some way into Aga Woszczyńska’s Silent Land (Cicha Zie…

T he State Funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II screened at 130 Vue and Curzon cinemas across the UK, categorised as a 300-minute documentary. The posthumous inte…

W hen someone goes on a lovely vacation with their family in a film directed by M. Night Shyamalan , it can mean only certain doom. Just last summer, he turned an afte…

A ctor Antonia Campbell-Hughes’ writing and directorial debut presents an ambitious portrait of male emotional repression and the unsettling ways those emotions can su…

T he holiday resort has proven to be an extremely reliable source of inspiration for filmmakers who seek to explore family dynamics in a pressure cooker environment, e…

I f the future’s going to be a dystopia, it won’t be all doom and gloom — barring some major alteration in the laws of nature, for instance, the standard forecast of r…

A s the title of Manuela Martelli’s directorial debut suggests, the year is 1976, and Chile is suffocating under the nightmare that is Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship.…

I n an early scene in Road to Perdition, 12-year-old Michael (Tyler Hoechlin) is asked by mob boss John Rooney (Paul Newman) to retrieve his jacket from his study. On …

T he short form is the primary cinematic blueprint and foundation for emerging filmmakers to make their first steps in the industry and hone their directing skills bef…

A detective travels to a wind-swept mountainside village surrounded by sensuously waving grass to investigate a murder, and gradually falls for the dead guy’s femme f…