Really wanted to like this one, but just doesn't work. Didn't even have space in the review to address some of the most pitiful and thin women characters in a long time…

What about they find his identical twin?

Out today!! Support insane women!!

This feels very “back in the news” in the UK right now… youtu.be/SRRw1ERj2Gc

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...

me every time I pull off a parry in Expedition 33

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

Relay is almost really good. Case of when a film has to stick or twist, and makes the wrong choice. lwlies.com/reviews/relay

Top three Hitchcock: Vertigo Marnie I Confess

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

BFI screening an all-timer this Sunday… whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...

Still some seats for the LWL screening of Frankenstein at the Rio Cinema tomorrow! Grab £5 tix with code LITTLEWHITEFIVE and pick up a copy of our Frankenstein issue in person! riocinema.org.uk/Rio.dll/Book...

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...

This was an epic and enlivening issue to make. Proud that every illustration has been hand-crafted by human people.

Rose of Nevada is a fascinating Brexit movie, George McKay as the collective Ego (rejecting the nostalgic past) and Callum Turner as the collective Id (finding salvation in a mythical before time).

Show me one (1) person who wants this?

The original KPop Demon Hunters

With Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother (which I liked a lot!), it’s pretty funny to me that JJ thinks PG Tips is a luxury brand.

As it heads off to the printers, especially proud of this next issue of @LWLies as it has been made with minimal digital intervention, all the artwork made via practical, analog means. We celebrate illustrators and their intricate human process in the issue.

George M during his AI jury duty…

Breaking: PTA confesses that he is NOT a hardcore Steely Dan fan!

I think this might be the best ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER Q&A I’ve heard so far. Great questions from @daveyjenkins.bsky.social and some interesting insights into PTA’s research. He cites Bryan Burrough’s book DAYS OF RAGE as a key touchstone. (9 mins in) #FilmSky podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Just heard an ad for an AI publishing tool that weeds out AI plagiarism.

and so is harris dickinson's urchin, featuring frank dillane who should be everywhere imo lwlies.com/reviews/urchin

good week at the movies in the UK, benny safdie's smashing machine is wonderful lwlies.com/reviews/the-...

On a very special (and long) episode of Truth & Movies, myself and @daveyjenkins.bsky.social and Marina Ashioti travel to Amsterdam and meet Tilda Swinton, Joanna Hogg, Apichatpong Weerasethkul & Vincent van Velsen for a mega celebration of Tilda's new exhibition, Ongoing lwlies.com/podcast/spec...

The new edition of Film Stories magazine - featuring Brit drama I Swear, Roofman, Edgar Wright, Irvine Welsh and a lot of Krull - is out now. filmstories.co.uk/news/film-st...

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

Sold!

hi i'm hosting a screening of the grand budapest hotel at @princecharlescinema.com on october 2nd! come and say hi and maybe buy a book i will even sign it for you! princecharlescinema.com/film/1243115...

No surprise, this is very good. pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

Gotta say, as mid as it is, the Springsteen film is still >>> A Complete Unknown.

Everyone (rightly) praising the new PTA for its chilling timeliness, but remember when Gary Valentine got randomly bundled into a police car for no reason and was then allowed to walk free when it was determined he wasn’t a local serial killer.

In London, there’s an opportunity to see pretty much every one of PTA’s films in the cinema every single month. This film, like the others, will be making money for decades to come.

How I imagine Isaac Chotiner:

The real turning point

Wrote this piece for @lwlies.com a coupla years back in praise of Miller’s Crossing, which was my Favourite Film Of All Time from about 1993-1998. lwlies.com/in-praise-of...

Please god, no more boxing movies…

This illustration is so good you could probably tell it’s Trump’s hand even if the remote wasn’t there.

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-...

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Every time I see mention of A Big, Bold, Beautiful Journey it makes me think of…

RIP Robert Redford. Downhill Racer, for me, an absolute pip.

Top Scottish accents rh

This was a fun Monday morning task tbh…

God this was a depressing, mirthless slog… Little more than a trundled victory lap for the original film. lwlies.com/reviews/spin...

I jumped on the @studiocanal.com podcast with the great @simonbrew.bsky.social to discuss their plush new 4K re-release of Mike Nichols’ The Graduate, and make the case that it's perhaps a more interesting film about Mrs Robinson than it is about Benjamin Braddock. audioboom.com/posts/877297...

PSA: there’s a ton of Steely Dan refs in the new PTA (complimentary).