Screen Rats

A t the 1982 Cannes Film Festival , the German filmmaker Wim Wenders sat down with a group of fellow directors in a hotel room and asked them a searching question: “Is…

N icolas Cage is the perfect actor for the age of the meme. His long career and expressive performance style have made him a mainstay of internet culture, arguably sin…

B elgian director Laura Wandel won the Sutherland Award at the 2021 London Film Festival, awarded to the best debut feature in competition, which Wandel received for U…

T here is no moral equivalence between a pro-choice and pro-life stance. It’s sanity versus insanity. So says Audrey Diwan’s consummately hard-hitting drama Happening,…

I n a world with Hayao Miyazaki largely inactive and American animation for the most part in the toilet, the wily and wonderful creations from Ireland’s premier produ…

T he presence of children on screen is a precarious thing. Filmmakers take a great risk when dealing with kids, inviting the potential for saccharine precociousness or…

Sandra Lee returns to a post-Andrew Cuomo New York for swanky gala Celebrity chef Sandra Lee returned to New York for a ritzy gala a day before it was announced tha…

I n the English-speaking world, the average kid’s strongest familiarity with the Japanese tradition of SFX-driven live-action known as  tokusatsu  would probably be Po…

Y ou always get a sense there’s a bit of professional jealousy when it comes to the annual announcement of the Cannes Film Festival line-up . The first big missive com…

Marília Mendonça, Brazilian singer and Latin Grammy winner, dead at 26 in plane crash "Graveto" singer Marília Mendonça died in a plane crash Friday on he…

Aaron Rodgers' fiancée Shailene Woodley shares cryptic message after he reveals he's unvaccinated Shailene Woodley posted and seemingly deleted a cryptic me…