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/...

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/...

The thing that Terminator 2 gets really wrong is that Miles Bennett Dyson is a nice guy.

Tired: Avatar Inspired: Ishtar

It's true. I rewatched Problem Child (1990) recently and it looked like Man With A Frickin’ Movie Camera compared to a lot of drab modern studio fare.

Weird flex after their whole thing about getting children's hospitals to scrub all their Donald Duck murals…

There's a sense with Marty Supreme that it's asking the question, would The Colour of Money be worth watching if Paul Newman wasn't in it.

Great piece this

Still my favourite Cattet/Forzani movie.

Seven-yr-old daughter just came in the room, looked up at me wide-eyed and said, "Daddy, do you think one day I might win the FIFA Peace Prize?"

Is the optimistic read on the current shitshow that cinemas suddenly have the space/impetus to diversify programming, lower ticket prices, draw from a much wider pool of storytelling and lean into the things that make cinemagoing unique (ie proper projection, events, repertory, etc)?

So you come at Paul Dano after dropping a top 20 that reads like a TUBI autoplay marathon… oookkkaaayy……

The Marty Supreme notices drop and I still ain't seen it.

There’s a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated short that plays ahead of the new Spongebob movie and it’s vastly superior to the main attraction.

Totally forgot… s/o to the Rich Hall cameo in The Running Man.

How do you pronounce Nuzzi? Is it like Nutsy?

Reading that Yes had to rush their album Fragile out to the shops cos Wakeman had spent too much on keyboards.

CALLING ALL LONDON HEADS! On Thurs 12/18 catch a special UK preview screening of "Revelations of Divine Love" at @thenickelcinema.bsky.social in Clerkenwell! Followed by a Q&A with yours truly! Tickets & info ticketlab.app/event/36337#/

This reminds me that the exact moment I knew The Running Man was bad was the product placement for Liquid Death (which is like 10 mins into the film).

Excellent audience question at a screening of The Testament of Ann Lee. To Amanda Seyfried: if Ann Lee [18th century founder of the Shakers] were alive today, what would her fashion sense be like?

It would be nice if Benny Safdie stood outside the cinema with a sandwich board for Marty Supreme. Josh really shoulda done it for Smashing Machine.

youtu.be/maWvb1e5OJ4 “Oh no!”

Reading my daughter Wind in the Willows and thinking it might be the greatest novel ever.

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

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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...