Screen Rats

28 Days Later, the apocalyptic zombie film which gave Cillian Murphy his breakout role, opens and closes with two near-identical scenes. Both moments find Jim, played…

B ruce Lee died on July 20 1973 and Enter the Dragon premiered in Los Angeles a month later.  The contrast was startling, the irony evident: on screen, Lee looked more…

T he vast, reflexive irony of the internet has fallen on Greta Gerwig’s Barbie like a hungry zombie on a fresh hunk o’ human. What a camp, metaphysical feast! She appe…

L ike many people my age my cinephilia started online and has mostly stayed there. If in the cinema you can escape amongst strangers, in more atomised times you can on…

“H ell is a teenage girl” is a statement that the group of devout young Christian women in Anita Rocha da Silveira’s highly stylised second feature would no doubt take…

D efined by the British Dyslexia Association , “dyslexia is a learning difficulty that primarily affects the skills involved in accurate and fluent word reading and sp…

I t’s an instant extra star when Oasis mastermind Noel Gallagher turns up in a documentary as a talking head. He’s not the focus here, in Anton Corbijn’s film charting…

V era (Asta Kamma August) and André (Herbert Nordrum) seemingly have it made. They’re business partners and a couple, with their eyes firmly on the prize when it comes…

I t’s almost 20 years since Disney acquired Pixar from Steve Jobs – in which time the company have produced some of their best-loved films, including Ratatouille, Up, …

T he city of Fremont in California has the largest Afghan population in the US – some 30,000 call the city home, leading to its affectionate nickname of Little Kabul. …

E than Hunt (Tom Cruise) has a difficult choice to make. Not over whether to accept what might be his toughest and most perilous mission yet, but rather – in a surpris…