Screen Rats

M ere weeks separated the world premiere of Jafar Panahi’s latest film No Bears from his latest arrest over accusations of propaganda against the Iranian state. The fi…

T he general premise of Darren Aronofsky ‘s new film The Whale has been known for a while, the news that Brendan Fraser would portray a six-hundred-pound shut-in the …

After an entirely virtual affair in 2020 and a hybrid event in 2021, the 35th European Film Awards ceremony will take place as an in-person celebration of filmmaking o…

“I t’s a cold, dead film about cold, dead people” is how Bret Easton Ellis described The Canyons at a press conference during the 70th Venice International Film Festiv…

“D o not despair; one of the thieves was saved. Do not presume; one of the thieves was damned.” These are the words that open John Michael McDonagh’s 2014 film Calvar…

S hot in sumptuous and hazy 16mm film, Haitian-Canadian filmmaker Miryam Charles’ debut feature attempts a fluid journey in time and space – across Haiti, Connecticut …

S o far, 2022 has been a disappointing year for horror. Every highly anticipated horror that has been lauded as ‘female-led’ has ended up rife with horror’s most misog…

M ost of us associate the word ‘horror’ with a cinematic genre: The Exorcist, The Ring, Paranormal Activity, Halloween, Friday the 13th andThe Texas Chainsaw Massacre …

A dapted from Emma Donoghue’s 2016 novel ‘The Wonder’, Sebastián Lelio’s ominous new film follows Lib (Florence Pugh), an English nurse hired to watch over 11-year-old…

I n Something in the Dirt, the fifth feature from Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, we hear wind chimes before we see anything. These chimes hang outside a somewhat di…

I n the mesmerising, tech-saturated Burundi conjured by co-directors/life partners Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman for their unclassifiable, often mystifying film Nep…