Screen Rats

A rtists think they know everything, teenagers think they know everything, and when the two overlap, the levels of self-destructive self-assurance can be catastrophic.…

“L ife’s tragedy begins with the bond between parent and child.” That epigraph, found at the opening of Yasujirō Ozu’s first talkie, The Only Son (1936), could easily …

K nown for his satirical novels that both stressed and parodied the inequalities rife in modern society, author Kurt Vonnegut released 14 novels, three short story col…

D aisy Edgar-Jones is having the sort of meteoric rise that is normally confined to the final act of a Disney film. The British actress first peered out from behind a …

J ust as Norway’s Joachim Trier recently completed his Oslo trilogy with The Worst Person in the World , Jonas Carpignano has wrapped up his own Calabrian triptych wi…

I f you want to see a heavyweight world champ fighting in a piddling featherweight bout, look no further than Fernando León de Aranoa’s The Good Boss, in which Javier …

T he spa city of Karlovy Vary in the Czech Republic, with its romantic Bohemian architecture and hot thermal springs, is a striking place to host a film festival. Its …

A fter four long years away from our screens, Ryan Gosling finally returns as a CIA operative who finds himself – you guessed it! – betrayed by the government after he…

“W hen you’re free to be, you can be magnificent”. This is the mantra guiding the transgender, luminous and wholly transfixing Donna Personna. Most known for being par…

T o be filed under “based on a true story”: twin sisters Jennifer and June Gibbons moved with their family to Haverfordwest, Wales in 1974, while they were still in th…

W e’re living in a golden age of musician biopics, at least in the sense that there sure are a lot of them. Whether the likes of Rocketman , Bohemian Rhapsody , or cur…