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Only buying games on vinyl from now on.

Daughter (7): Dad there’s this Beatles song I love but I don’t know what it’s called. Can you play it? Me: Sure. How does it go? Daughter: [sings] “Strawberry Fields Forever!” Me: Yes, I think I know that one.

my latest @lwlies.com letter is about why i still love renting dvds – featuring my beloved cinema paradiso postal subscription service, the importance of controlled chaos when choosing what to watch, and my backstory as a teen video shop employee. read and subscribe! mailchi.mp/tcolondon/th...

How Jack Hazan’s 1973 intimate portrait of the late David Hockney at work, play, and through emotional turmoil, anticipated how we consume images of celebrities today. In praise of A Bigger Splash: lwlies.com/in-praise-of...

Practical Magic 2 is directed by Susanne Bier.

Climate activists should try and work out how often 🥵 is sent via messaging apps this week.

Rewatched Spielberg's Tintin, and it's so weird that Tintin, voiced by Jamie Bell, looks exactly like Spaced-era Simon Pegg, while Pegg voices one of the Thompson twins.

On Truth & Movies this week, we discuss Toy Story 5 and speak to Pixar’s Thomas Jordan, get into Rohan Kanawade’s tender queer romance Cactus Pears, and revisit the cult animated classic The Brave Little Toaster (1987). Listen here:

Maybe Sir Kier can do some pro bono work for all the pensioners he had locked up.

Available now for pre-order… LWLies 113, on the future of Hollywood. Physical media 4eva

“One of the key pleasures of Andrew Stanton’s Toy Story 5 is that Cusack is given the starring role as shit-kicking cowgirl Jessie who, in this film, is finally allowed to step out from the shadows as merely a sassy female analogue to Tom Hanks’ goofy deputy, Woody,“ writes @daveyjenkins.bsky.social

Announcing… The new print edition of Little White Lies is here. Issue 113 is an illustrated exploration into the future of Hollywood, available now for pre-order. The cover art is by Nottinghamshire-based illustrator Nick Taylor.

My Toy Story 5 review is an homage to the great Joan Cusack. lwlies.com/reviews/toy-...

I’ve paused it at the half-way mark to make a quick cup of tea, but Red Dragon (2002) is spectacularly awful.

One of the funniest scenes in a Michael Mann film (there aren’t many to chose from!) is in Manhunter when William Petersen is on a plane sat next to a young girl. He is clutching a folder full of gory crime scene photographs. He falls asleep and then splays the pictures all over his tray-table.

Dylan, on life in your 80’s, is incredible. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/o...

"When I'm 18, I’m going to vote for the party who limited my access to social media during my teen years."

If hagsploitation wasn’t bad enough, a new spate of male-directed horror films is displaying a worrying reliance on anti-abortion rhetoric.

On Truth & Movies this week, we discuss Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day. We then take a look at some of his previous looks at alien encounters in The War Of The Worlds, Close Encounters Of The Third Kind and E.T. Joining host Leila Latif are Billie Walker and David Jenkins.

Cool interview with Scott Z Burns – he lays out his vision for a sequel to Contagion!

Have a definite feeling that conspiracy nuts are gonna love Disclosure Day. Has big "the Moon landings were faked" energy to it, perhaps unintentionally.

Steven Spielberg returns to the extra-terrestrial territory which launched his career, but the results fail to light up the screen. @hannahstrong.co.uk reviews Disclosure Day:

i am upset lwlies.com/reviews/disc...

I loved this so much I drew it

I enjoyed Erupcja. It’s out in cinemas this week. My review 💕

I choose to believe that people like Scorsese would only be doing stuff like this (advocating for trash tech at gunpoint) because the traditional revenue watering holes are drying up. My guy just wants to make pictures…

Yes, I can’t wait to get 4 x Michaels on the same day.

I wrote about fanzines for my latest @lwlies.com letter!! feat. a selection of my very fav film zines, and a plea to make your own fanzine and experience true joy and human connection: mailchi.mp/tcolondon/lw...

Across five seasons, the personal and professional relationship of Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) and Ava Daniels (Hannah Einbinder) has been the beating heart of Hacks.

it is weird to announce this but today is my last day at little white lies UNTIL OCTOBER because i'm on a sabbatical to write my jackass book!!!! however this also means i am available for other work because i need money to live lol so please consider hiring me for things

feels apt that the only people who will handle these are drug dealers and tax dodgers.

the worst critics say Disclosure Day is good! www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

we beat our cannes record this year at LWLies covering a remarkable 58 films across the festival – not bad for two staffers and our fantastic freelancers. I'd like to shout out a review from each of em

Fjord was the worst film I saw in Cannes this year. It just won the Palme d’Or. 🥲

Satuday's @theguardian.com cartoon #transrights #EHRC #LGBTQ

Manuela Martelli’s second feature sees a young Chilean girl unravel a chilly mystery when a young skier’s goes missing at her grandparents’ ski resort. The Meltdown – @hannahstrong.co.uk's first-look review from #Cannes2026:

I've been bad at posting my cannes reviews so here is another of the worst film i've seen here lwlies.com/cannes-film-...

Me and @hannahstrong.co.uk chop it up with a game of Cannes tombola, covering a bunch of the big movies + official gelato rankings!

The murderous antagonist in Nicolas Winding Refn’s new film, Her Private Hell, is called The Leather Man, and I would die for him.

I feel like a disappointed parent lwlies.com/cannes-film-...

Usually love Cristian Mungiu, but his mean-spirited and absurd new film, Fjord, is (so far) my bomb of the 2026 Cannes festival… lwlies.com/cannes-film-...

Our collected coverage from Cannes. Lotsa good stuff!

Elite list. Lolly, Brookner, Frog Hospital…

In the new Marie Kreuzer film Gentle Monster, Lea Seydoux plays a popstar whose apparently popular schtick is neo-classical solo piano covers of Charles & Eddie.

The new Hamaguchi is everything. lwlies.com/cannes-film-...

Paweł Pawlikowski’s striking miniature on author Thomas Mann’s return to Germany after the war in 1949 hums with emotion and insight. #Cannes2026

Just saw the new restoration of Ken Russell’s The Devils in Cannes. I must confess I loved it. Phenomenal intro by @kermodemovie.bsky.social and Russell’s widow, Lisi.