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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…

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Poppy star charisma drives this ripped-from-the-headlines comedy-drama from the usual morose writer/​director, Derek Cianfrance. Roofman review: lwlies.com/reviews/roof...

Guillermo del Toro handles Mary Shelley’s canonical text with the tenderness of a butterfly, exulting in the author’s wisdom and sense of high tragedy while bringing his own steampunk spin to the material. Review: lwlies.com/reviews/fran...

🦋 Announcing for pre-order… 🦋 Little White Lies 110 – The Frankenstein issue. A hand-crafted shrine to @realgdt.bsky.social’s masterwork of imaginative and personalised literary adaptation. Cover screen print by LWLies’ art director @boglio.bsky.social featuring Oscar Issac and Jacob Elordi.

Had the absolute time of my life interviewing The Absolute Lads (Guillermo del Toro, Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi) for this truly stunning issue!!!! It's going to blow your minds!!!

🦋 Announcing for pre-order… 🦋 Little White Lies 110 – The Frankenstein issue. A hand-crafted shrine to @realgdt.bsky.social’s masterwork of imaginative and personalised literary adaptation. Cover screen print by LWLies’ art director @boglio.bsky.social featuring Oscar Issac and Jacob Elordi.

We’ve partnered with our good friends at Rarewaves.com to give our readers a 10% discount on all their items! Get 10% off everything when you spend £20 or more at Rarewaves​.com with code RWLWLies10 lwlies.com/partnership/...

in TRON: ARES, Jared Leto is somehow less convincing at looking human than the deaged Jeff Bridges replica from Legacy. Vibes not enough to carry the rest of the film, which is confused at best! reviewed for @lwlies.com: lwlies.com/reviews/tron

RIP to inspirational movie poster legend, Drew Struzan. Everything he put his pen to ended up being some canonical representation of a movie we now love. Often, the posters are more famous than the movies themselves. Poster auteurism! We love these unused Struzan designs for Back to the Future.

Harris Dickinson proves there’s no end to his talents with his feature debut about a homeless Londoner who keeps running into trouble. Our review of Urchin: lwlies.com/reviews/urchin

The franchise that nobody asked for receives a largely forgettable sequel full of unnecessary lore. The Strangers: Chapter 2 review: lwlies.com/reviews/the-...

The French electronic duo were the musical backbone behind Sofia Coppola’s startling debut. A 25th anniversary reissue saw them reconstructing much of their work from scratch. 🔓 Unlock the full piece by joining Club LWLies and supporting our independent journalism with as little as £3pcm.

At the Bergamo Food Film Fest, a thoughtful ensemble of shorts and off-screen culinary events gave audiences a lot to sink their teeth into

As good a time as any to reshare my PTA / Pynchon piece for @lwlies.com from a few years back… lwlies.com/in-praise-of...

PTA has made a film that is a very rare beast indeed: one that is incredibly fun without ever once straining to be – read @daveyjenkins.bsky.social's review: lwlies.com/reviews/one-...

Review: One Battle After Another is a pure shot of PTA’s alchemical craft and one of 2025’s best. Top marks awarded from @daveyjenkins.bsky.social lwlies.com/reviews/one-...

Happyend strikes a remarkable balance between social satire and adolescent drama, finding points of alignment between the humour of everyday teen life and the absurdity of the bureaucracies that shape it. Our review: lwlies.com/reviews/happ...

The French electronic duo were the musical backbone behind Sofia Coppola’s startling debut. A 25th anniversary reissue saw them reconstructing much of their work from scratch. 🔓 Unlock the full piece by joining Club LWLies and supporting our independent journalism with as little as £3pcm.

Coming next week to the Little White Lies podcast...an interview with our day one 🥰

Our friends at Cinema For Gaza have announced their next fundraiser for Palestine, and it's a corker... www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

The iconic Brit metal trio come out of retirement for one final star-studded gig. Frankly, they shouldn’t have bothered.

The director of The Hunger Games pivots towards gnarly allegory in this violent Stephen King adaptation about a hike to the death

You already know about the gala films at London Film Festival this year (and we highly recommend a bunch of 'em!) but there's plenty of hidden gems in the rest of the programme – here's a little thread of titles to grab tickets for... ⬇️ 🎬

i know everyone's focused on tiff now but venice blew by without any time to breath so i wanted to share my reviews again as i'm proud of what i achieved in just over a week! first my review of bugonia, which i think is up there with lanthimos' best work lwlies.com/venice-film-...

David Michôd’s biopic of pioneering boxer Christy Martin is a serviceable showcase for Sydney Sweeney #TIFF50

Julia Jackman's 100 Nights of Hero closes out Venice Critic's Week for another year, and it's a total delight lwlies.com/venice-film-...

The line-up for the 2025 BFI London Film Festival has been announced, and we've got a lil' list of recommendations for you if you're having a hard time picking…

Ross McElwee's Remake, confronting the death of the filmmaker's son, is a heartbreaking eulogy and an examination of a life lived in public lwlies.com/venice-film-...

Not even the usually charismatic Oscar Isaac can save Julian Schnabel's diabolical In The Hand of Dante lwlies.com/venice-film-...

Gus Van Sant's Dead Man's Wire, based on the shocking true story of Tony Kiritsis, is entertaining but doesn't add much to the crime thriller as a whole lwlies.com/venice-film-...

Recounting the horrific murder of five-year-old Hind Rajab by the IDF in Gaze last year, Kaouther Ben Hania's The Voice of Hind Rajab is an immensely powerful cry for the genocide of the Palestinian people to be recognised lwlies.com/venice-film-...

Benny Safdie's solo feature debut The Smashing Machine features a stellar turn from Dwayne Johnson, but it's so much better than an awards bait biopic. @hannahstrong.co.uk out of Venice: lwlies.com/venice-film-...

The Testament of Ann Lee feels more a technical wonder than a spiritual one. First-look review from #Venezia82: lwlies.com/venice-film-...

If you like your Tilda fully Swintoned may I suggest you pick up this rather excellent latest edition of @lwlies.com