Screen Rats

T here’s something deeply unsettling about the new film from Belgian director Joachim Lafosse. Beyond the fact that it explores issues of child abuse and paedophila, f…

O n-screen and behind the scenes, Hollywood has a new favourite all-powerful villain. Recent developments and implementation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) – which in…

A fter Hours reunion!! It’s been nearly 40 years since Griffin Dunne was seen puzzling over the plaster-of-Paris bagel-shaped paperweights manufactured by Rosanna Arqu…

A quartet of narrative fragments unfold in the shape of an exquisite corpse in MMXX, the loquacious latest from the great Romanian auteur Cristi Puiu. The title is th…

T he blood is red, the screens are green, the language is blue and there’s a strange, juvenile fascination with yellow liquids in Scott Waugh’s film that also happens …

I f Europe were a person, it would be in dire need of emergency medical attention. So says Romanian New Wave lynchpin Cristian Mungiu, whose quietly scathing and preci…

K atherine Hepburn didn’t do TV. “It was gospel,” veteran talk show host Dick Cavett would later recall, “her privacy was practically enforced by the military”. But in…

W hen Saving Private Ryan first screened 25 years ago, critics and war veterans alike cited it as the most realistic portrayal of war ever seen on film. This was not t…

I n 32 minutes, Pedro Almodóvar’s Strange Way of Life packs in more tenderness, eroticism and cinephile references than most feature films manage across a couple o…

V iolence is upsetting only until it becomes funny; Looney Tunes teaches us this, that going far enough over the top removes the element of realism that gives acts of …

A lready this decade Kristoffer Borgli has established himself as a satirist of the branded self. His calling card short Former Cult Member Hears Music for the First T…