Screen Rats

A s the title of Manuela Martelli’s directorial debut suggests, the year is 1976, and Chile is suffocating under the nightmare that is Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship.…

L éa Mysius’ bewitching second feature, The Five Devils, explores the frightening fallout of a family’s past as it collides with the present. It sees pensive, eight-ye…

T his auspicious and enigmatic second feature from French filmmaker Léa Mysius unfurls like an ethereal remix of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining in its fantasy-flecked e…

A fiery crowd-pleaser premiering at this year’s SXSW, Eva Longoria’s feature directorial debut Flamin’ Hot adds even more spice to the heated rags-to-riches story of …

W hen Shin Kamen Rider was officially announced as Hideaki Anno’s next live-action feature in 2021, it was a dream come true for the acclaimed director. As he put it a…

I n its own dryly ironic way, the title of French writer/director Rebecca Zlotowski’s fifth feature has the power to strike fear into the heart. It suggests a horror m…

With the premiers of Bottoms and I Used to Be Funny at this year’s SXSW, Rachel Sennott has taken the festival by storm with her comedic ingenuity and dramatic versat…

W hen Godzilla vs. Megalon was released in the US in the summer of 1976, Vincent Canby noted Godzilla’s personality change in his New York Times review: “The dragon ha…

I n a 2007 Patton Oswalt stand-up special, one of the comedian’s bits involves a horror film that he has recently discovered. “I’m not making this up. Go IMDb this. T…

C harles Foster Kane complained that he couldn’t buy a bag of peanuts without someone writing a song about him; Quentin Tarantino lives with a less adulatory version …

T here’s a lot of “Googling” and “Thesaurus.com-ing” in Shazam! Fury of the Gods, so I decided to rhetorically Google the phrase, “What’s the name for something that, …