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…

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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.