Screen Rats

T here’s something strange and beguiling about the work of artist Egon Schiele, who studied under Gustav Klimt and became a key figure of the Expressionist movement of…

W hat do Elvis Presley, Mamie Till, and Weinstein scandal reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey have in common? All have recently received the Hollywood biopic treatm…

D eep in Hirokazu Koreeda’s typically gentle yet piercing new normal family drama Broker, one character listens to Aimee Mann’s hushed ballad ‘Wise Up’. Like any red-b…

“Y ou dream in a language I can’t understand,” Arthur (John Magaro) tells Nora (Greta Lee) when commenting on how she only sleep talks in Korean. The two are nested in…

W ith Franz Rogowski having established himself as one of the most singular and distinctive European acting talents gracing the silver screen today, it’s no surprise t…

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 fo…

M ost actors have a moment in their career where they need to make a public display of the fact that there’s more than a single string to their bow when it comes to th…

“D o you ever yearn?” a pensieve Kramer asks George in an episode of Seinfeld. George reluctantly responds, “Yearn? Do I yearn?”, and Kramer leans closer – “I yearn. O…

P resent-day cinephiles revisiting films from the ’70s often find themselves bemoaning today’s dearth of Guys with Faces, the class of actor with a hardscrabble backgr…

T he fast paced world we live in today thrives on the constant movement of people. Our attention is relentlessly being fed into the stream of new information provided …

N aples’ violent crime syndicate the Camorra casts a large shadow in the city’s literature – and Mario Martone’s Nostalgia, based on a 2016 novel by Ermanno Rea, is fu…