Screen Rats

I f you were on the internet in 2017, you probably at least heard about Cat Person. The New Yorker short story by Kristen Roupenian set the internet ablaze, praised f…

T o say he’s 6’4 with the bone structure and physique of a Rodin statue, Alexander Skarsgård plays a loser exceptionally well. We’ve seen glimpses of this talent in Th…

“W atching him is like watching a raccoon rummage through garbage cans. What is he gonna do now? Why look at anything else, while this is going on?” This was John C Re…

O nce he was American theatre’s leading light, now he’s Steven Spielberg’s valued collaborator, though Tony Kushner says, ‘I still think of myself as a playwright rath…

W ith the Sundance Film Festival currently in full swing, the cinema world is oriented around Park City, Utah, for the moment. But with the next major date on the cale…

T he Washington Post’s Philip L. Graham has been widely credited with declaring journalism “the first rough draft of history,” though as first drafts go, it’s especial…

In a new series, we’re celebrating the films we loved that aren’t likely to dominate the awards race. Over the new few weeks, our writers make passionate arguments for…

W hen it comes to cinemagoing, the island of Cyprus has long been dominated by multiplex juggernauts and big budget commercial motion pictures. Independent cinemas hav…

L ucio (Juan Minjín) is unsettled from the off in Diego Lerman’s The Substitute: his new Buenos Aires flat is sparsely furnished; the class he has just become substitu…

A fter a visit to the infamous beach in M Night Shyamalan’s Old and a trip to Fårö in Mia Hansen-Løve’s Bergman Island , Vicky Krieps this time searches for fulfilmen…

T he definitive Stanley Kowalski will always be Marlon Brando in Elia Kazan’s 1951 film. A not unrelated fact: this is the sexiest a man has ever looked in the history…