Screen Rats

R eleasing a documentary profile on a towering cultural figure to mark 50 years since their death feels perfunctory, and more often than not, yields predictable result…

P aul Mescal is undoubtedly the man of the hour in cinema. Fresh from his Academy Award-nominated performance in Aftersun and still reeling from the success of Normal…

C inemas are full of lonely people. They occupy both seats and screens – the stories we return to often focus on the daunting quest to find someone as strange as you w…

F or the queer community, Pride Month can often feel oversaturated with rainbows slapped on every product imaginable and lip service promising change that never comes.…

T he cinema landscape for the current millennium is noticeably more infantile than the one that preceded it. Sexless good guys are stalwart and true, the bad guys are …

N ew Wes, new merch. Just in time for Asteroid City to blast off in the UK and Ireland on 23 June, fans will be able to admire a range of original artwork of Wes Ande…

W hen the unbelievably named Reality Winner printed out a classified intelligence report revealing Russian interference in the 2016 US election from her National Secur…

S tephen King’s 1975 short story The Boogeyman blurs the psychological and the supernatural. Unfolding entirely within the confines of a psychiatrist’s office, it purp…

W e all know how it goes down… The Cannes press corps spend ten days collating, speculating and algorithmically predicting in the hope that they can offer the inside t…

I n Which Side Are You On? , his 1984 documentary on the miners’ strike, Ken Loach focuses on the public spaces, the clubs and halls, where the miners and their famil…

L ike the other two legendary 1933 backstage musicals from Warner Bros (42nd Street and Footlight Parade) Gold Diggers of 1933 is a charmed convergence of individual t…