I spoke with Markiplier for @lwlies.com. One of the most successful YouTubers on the planet, he now finds himself an overnight box-office sensation — and disruptor In a mutually curious conversation, we explore what IRON LUNG means to film, to games, and to Markiplier lwlies.com/this-just-in...

Send Help sees veteran director Sam Raimi returning to his horror-adjacent roots for this first work based on an original IP since 2009 indie humdinger, Drag Me to Hell, and it's an absolute hoot, writes @daveyjenkins.bsky.social Review: lwlies.com/reviews/send...

100 Nights of Hero unfolds at breakneck speed, with never a dull moment. Julia Jackman deftly interweaves her multiple narrative threads and indulges (complimentary) in woozy, dreamlike montages of image and sound, writes @lauravenning.bsky.social Review: lwlies.com/reviews/100-...

Shelter: This minor-key chase thriller aims for high seriousness, but offers nothing new or exciting to the ever-expanding Statham canon. Review: lwlies.com/reviews/shel...

Bradley Cooper’s third directorial feature about a struggling marriage through the eyes of a stand-up comedian buzzes with energy and emotion. Is This Thing On? review: lwlies.com/reviews/is-t...

for @lwlies.com, my review of Return to Silent Hill, an adaptation of Silent Hill 2 that makes some bewildering decisions but still captures its spirit better than the recent Bloober Team remake lwlies.com/reviews/retu...

The History Of Sound: its buttoned-up nature might frustrate those hoping for a more salacious story, but Oliver Hermanus and Ben Shattuck (adapting his own short story of the same name) have produced a unique and moving romance for those willing to listen. Review: lwlies.com/reviews/the-...

Hawking my wares: here's my @lwlies.com review of Claire Foy vehicle H IS FOR HAWK, now playing in cinemas lwlies.com/reviews/h-is...

Our best picture… 🥲

Received my 1st print edition of @lwlies.com since subscribing It's a lovely thing. Illustrations, art direction...etc It even has that cool weird paper smell...reminds me of plan b/careless talk costs lives mags (if anyone remembers those? RIP) #filmsky

In conversation with Park Chan-wook, who reunites with leading man Lee Byung-hun to executes a sharp, timely and blisteringly funny tale of personal greed, while pondering the lurking evil of AI. Interview: lwlies.com/interviews/p...

Across Liverpool and Manchester, a dynamic network of film clubs is occupying community spaces and encouraging a DIY approach to film curation

Come for Lee Byung-hun’s wild central performance, stay for the scathing critique of AI. Our review of Park Chan-wook’s excellent No Other Choice: lwlies.com/reviews/no-o...

New year, new movies! Here’s part one of our annual preview looking ahead to the year’s most exciting releases:

💃 Hold everything!!! 💃 Introducing… LWLies issue 111, dedicated to the meta-musical marvel that is Mona Fastvold’s The Testament of Ann Lee. Cover art by Aleksandra Czudżak

Interview: We get spiritual and philosophical with the great Chloé Zhao ahead of the release of her knockout new film, Hamnet.

One of the giants of modern European cinema has fallen. RIP Hungarian maestro, Béla Tarr. Damnation, Satantango, Werckmeister Harmonies, The Turin Horse… to have made just one of these extraordinary films would have been a life's work completed.

From Star Wars canon expansion to the conclusion of a university-set sitcom and Vince Gilligan’s highly anticipated return to the small screen, here are our TV highlights from this year: lwlies.com/top-ranking/...

Norway’s favourite son on how to follow-up a global hit – with another wistful, intuitive and thought film about melancholy in Sentimental Value. In conversation with Joachim Trier: lwlies.com/interviews/j...

With stormy seas ahead in the world of cinema, we celebrate the good and the great from another spectacular year for the medium. Here's annual top 30 films of the year list: lwlies.com/top-ranking/...

I'm in this issue with blu-ray capsules on: 📀 SPLENDID OUTING (soo-yong kim, 1978) 📀 THE DEAD (john huston, 1987) 📀 CITY ON FIRE (ringo lam, 1987) 📀 OVER YOUR DEAD BODY (takashi miike, 2014) subscribe: lwlies.com/magazine

Coming of age with Rob Reiner Sophie Monks Kaufman’s ripped-from-the-heart piece recalls the life-changing moment she encountered Stand By Me and celebrates the late director’s singularly empathetic and humorous touch. lwlies.com/opinion/comi...

Coming of age with Rob Reiner Sophie Monks Kaufman’s ripped-from-the-heart piece recalls the life-changing moment she encountered Stand By Me and celebrates the late director’s singularly empathetic and humorous touch. lwlies.com/opinion/comi...

💃 Hold everything!!! 💃 Introducing… LWLies issue 111, dedicated to the meta-musical marvel that is Mona Fastvold’s The Testament of Ann Lee. Cover art by Aleksandra Czudżak

We’re back on digital paradise of Pandora for this quietly radical sequel in which eye-popping action is combined with the director’s own geopolitical frustration with the world right now

Absolutely devastating news about the passing of Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle. What an achievement to make so many people’s favourite film, but from a range of six different titles. Here on the set of the superlative and unique The Princess Bride.

Udo Kier, a unique presence who could do more in 2 mins of screen time than most actors could do in 90+. RIP

Musical theatre has always thrived on the ability of characters being able to convey their thoughts and/or emotions through song, but has it ever felt quite as stupid and telegraphed as this? Read our review of Wicked: For Good:

The Ice Tower is as fragile and delicate as a snowflake, as disorientating and mysterious as adolescence, and as dark as a winter’s night – @antbit.projectedfigures.com Read our ❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️ review:

As Mathieu Kassovitz’s cult thriller turns 30, its pertinence and influence continue to reverberate across our own uncertain times

Portishead’s Geoff Barrow teams with comic book writer Rob Williams to pen a tightly-wound, unexpected rave-era thriller that delivers the goods. Game review: lwlies.com/reviews/game

It pains us to say that The Running Man is a bit of a bust, imagination and edge both missing in action. lwlies.com/reviews/the-...

Thom Eberhardt’s counter-culture classic from 1984 is a poem to doomed youth. lwlies.com/in-praise-of...

For @lwlies.com I reviewed Dan Trachtenberg's Predator: Badlands lwlies.com/reviews/pred...

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Thrilled to write even more about BUGONIA, this time over at @lwlies.com where I look at the film as a synthesis of the various strains of Stanley Kubrick running through the work of Yorgos Lanthimos. (Many thnaks to @daveyjenkins.bsky.social for helping focus the idea!) lwlies.com/this-just-in...

interviewed one of my absolute favourite filmmakers in the world, lynne ramsay, about die my love. she is extremely lovely, quite shy, and a total genius, imo lwlies.com/interviews/l...

"The cinema of Lynne Ramsay is cinema of the senses, raw and delicate and alive, like holding a butterfly cupped between your palms and feeling its wings beat against your skin. Jennifer Lawrence completely understands this, inhibiting Grace with a total lack of vanity." Die My Love review:

There are some moments of pure magic in Ronan Day-Lewis’s directorial debut, but a tone of perpetual glumness doesn’t make for a fun time at the movies. Our review of Anemone: lwlies.com/reviews/anem...

Reclaiming the trash filmmaker and trans icon from an era that couldn’t comprehend his shape-shifting forms of self-identification. Ed Wood Jr and the pain of pronouns: lwlies.com/in-praise-of...

With Frankenstein landing on Netflix this week, here's @hannahstrong.co.uk in conversation with @realgdt.bsky.social on the creation of the film he has always wanted to make. 🖤🥀 lwlies.com/interviews/g...

I wrote this! I interviewed Steve Box and Aardman co-founder Peter Lord! We discuss: - crafting the famous dogfight - DreamWorks’ impact on the film - UK vs US filmmaking Give it a read!

Twenty years ago Aardman created a monster. A carrot-gobbling monster that baffled its American investors…

Horror is suffering from explanation fatigue. My review of Shelby Oaks is live on @lwlies.com lwlies.com/reviews/shel...

Daylight savings got you down? Us too, but we’ve got a scarily good offer to lift your spirits 👻 For the next 48 hours, get 20% off on a subscription to LWLies magazine: lwlies.imbmsubscriptions.com/creature20

Another feather in the cap for Lanthimos, Plemons and Stone. Our review of Bugonia: lwlies.com/reviews/bugo...

LWLies 61: The Crimson Peak issue. Sept/Oct 2015 Cover by @danmumforddraws.bsky.social

Got to cover this year's Toronto Palestine Film Festival for the coolest movie mag @lwlies.com. It was everything you'd want in a festival: films, talks, community. Deeply moving all around. Read about it here: lwlies.com/journeys/ins...

Another stunning O’Connor performance, another Reichardt dream. The Mastermind review: lwlies.com/reviews/the-...

On shelves now! Our print ode to one of 2025’s best films: Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein. But it you’re not sold on cover alone, let’s take a little look at the innards…