Screen Rats

T he city of Fremont in California has the largest Afghan population in the US – some 30,000 call the city home, leading to its affectionate nickname of Little Kabul. …

E than Hunt (Tom Cruise) has a difficult choice to make. Not over whether to accept what might be his toughest and most perilous mission yet, but rather – in a surpris…

Anton Bitel provides a look at six titles heading to streaming and physical media releases this month that you should add to the top of your shopping list. The Bla…

S hamira Raphaëla originally set out to make a film about the aspirations of four teenagers living in Rotterdam’s De Peperklip social housing complex – a striking arch…

N otably fond of deadpan dada and off-the-wall gore, director Quentin Dupieux (Rubber, Deerskin ) delivers these by the bucketload in loony Super Sentai pisstake, Smok…

I n Vincent Sherman’s 1950 noir The Damned Don’t Cry, Joan Crawford plays a housewife trapped in a loveless marriage, when the tragic death of her young son becomes an…

A rizona-based author Alan Dean Foster has been turning movies into novels since the early 70s. Today, he has an extensive portfolio of film novelizations under his b…

“T en years ago I heard Lubomyr Melnyk perform for the first time. Playing 40 notes a second, the 74-year-old pianist conjures transcendental landscapes and imagistic …

L éonor Serraille loves headstrong, emotional women. The French director burst onto the Cannes scene when, in 2017, she won the Camera d’Or (the prize for the best fir…

“See the child,” Cormac McCarthy instructs us in the first line of his novel ‘Blood Meridian’. Similarly, in the opening scene of 2013’s The Counselor, McCarthy – thro…

A few years back, Darius Marder’s Sound of Metal depicted the difficult adjustment of a drummer to life without hearing, leaving behind an artistic field so dependen…