Screen Rats

Ray Liotta reveals why Frank Sinatra’s daughters mailed him a horse head Nancy and Tina Sinatra sent Liotta a message inspired by the famous scene in "The Godf…

O ne of the things that Alfred Hitchcock ’s Psycho is famous for is the way it subverts expectations, particularly when it comes to the relationships we forge with its…

A midst an ever-concerning heatwave, a cinematic summer of seduction has made itself known to audiences. Larger films like Good Luck To You, Leo Grande have sat side …

T hose familiar with the work of filmmaker Albert Serra may approach news of another feature with some measure of trepidation, knowing of his penchant for extreme con…

T he Safdie Brothers have an affection for losers. From repeat offenders to heroin junkies to degenerate gamblers, their preferred kind seems to be those who are inexo…

W hen we think of music in horror there are plenty of touchstones; stabs of strings, ominously building drones, sing-song voices and maniacal laughter. We think of ter…

S ome of the best horror films come from mining threat out of the unthreatening. Be it a little boy in The Omen, foodie Psychologists in The Silence of The Lambs or wh…

E iffel isn’t so much a biopic of French engineer Gustave Eiffel (played here by Romain Duris), but rather a work of fiction inspired by certain historical facts. It p…

B ack at the Cannes Film Festival this past May, the uproarious class comedy Triangle of Sadness netted director Ruben Östlund an impressive second Palme d’Or, making…

S atyajit Ray is not missing from world cinema’s history books, but as an Indian and a student of the arts, it is almost comical for me to admit that I had never engag…

T here’s something wholly intoxicating and immersive to German filmmaker Helena Wittman’s awesomely-named second feature, Human Flowers of Flesh – a towering, teeterin…