Screen Rats

I t’s the job of a critic, in my humble opinion, to meet every film on its own terms, and evaluate it accordingly. While some dedicated keyboard warriors may claim cri…

R obin Hardy’s 1973 folk horror flick The Wicker Man has become legendary for many things: its unbearable building of tension, fearlessly strange content, eerie soundt…

I f you’ve ever watched that clip of Aragorn opening the doors in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and found it altered your brain chemistry, you’re definitely n…

I t was in the pages of the then-young Cahiers Du Cinéma magazine that a tight-knit group of French movie dorks (Truffaut, Rivette, Godard et al) first proffered Auteu…

T he scientist Stephen Jay Gould once wrote, “I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people …

T here’s been a lot of nervous chatter lately about the prospect of artists and artisans being usurped by the scourge of Artificial Intelligence. And rightly so, as th…

B est known for his complex, melodic film scores, the work of composer and musician Emile Mosseri has lifted the drama of a number of films into something almost spiri…

W ho has the right to play steward to someone else’s story? It’s an unavoidable question in the conversation surrounding War Pony, a slice-of-life work of neorealism s…

E ighteen years and ninety-eight editions since The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou graced the cover of our very first issue, the stars have aligned once again, just in…

F or anyone old enough to remember the early 2000s BBC drama Cutting It, you’ll know that the only thing more dangerous than the sharp end of a pair of salon scissors …

F ew actresses have defined the vibrancy of the ’90s indie film scene quite like Parker Posey. In cult classics of the decade like Dazed and Confused, Kicking and Scre…