David Jenkins
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LWLies editor.
I was scared to read this because I just thought the likelihood of it being as good as (or even better than) My Phantoms was so remote. And yet…
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I must know, if you "write" a "novel" using AI, is that also accepting that you should also forego payment? As an editor, I'd be like, okay, 65k words… shall we say that's worth… 2 quid?
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Fabulous news.
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Little White Lies
5 days ago
The banality of watching someone else playing video games is channeled into this celeb-packed animation sequel that plays like an extended product advertorial. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie review:
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The Super Mario Galaxy Movie review – even worse than the first one
The banality of watching someone else playing video games is channeled into this celeb-packed animation sequel that plays like an extended product…
https://lwlies.com/reviews/the-super-mario-galaxy-movie-review
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Out on MUBI this week and pretty much unmissable. Consider showing this to the kids rather than schlepping them along to Mario Galaxy.
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My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow review – an epic,…
Julia Loktev offers a chilling portrait of life in Russia as totalitarian screws were being turned, but also provides a sense of hope in presenting the…
https://lwlies.com/reviews/my-undesirable-friends-part-i-last-air-in-moscow
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Tore The Super Mario Galaxy Movie a new one.
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The Super Mario Galaxy Movie review – even worse than the first one
The banality of watching someone else playing video games is channeled into this celeb-packed animation sequel that plays like an extended product…
https://lwlies.com/reviews/the-super-mario-galaxy-movie-review
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The Drama: mostly good!!
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The Drama review – a very modern shotgun wedding
Zendaya and Robert Pattinson's impending marriage is put in jeopardy by a late-stage revelation in Kristoffer Borgli's prickly romantic dramedy.
https://lwlies.com/reviews/the-drama
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Greatest magazine column of all time must be Select’s Our Absinth Friends.
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Bob Dylan's Patreon feels like he's being Stan Lee'd by some unscrupulous family members who want their pool retiled.
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Little White Lies
6 days ago
As the queen of evocative dance pop releases her ninth studio album, it’s a good time to reflect on how her music has become a phenomenon within queer media. The Queer Cinematic Magic of Robyn:
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The Queer Cinematic Magic of Robyn
As the queen of evocative dance pop releases her ninth studio album, it's a good time to reflect on how her music has become a phenomenon within queer…
https://lwlies.com/in-praise-of/the-queer-cinematic-magic-of-robyn
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ROSE OF NEVADA preview tour
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Was sent an old print interview I did with Frederick Wiseman, and this opener (which coulda gone either way), yielded some nice lil zings…
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Little White Lies
18 days ago
Announcing… the new print edition of Little White Lies, inspired by the cinema of Jim Jarmusch, with special focus on his wonderful new film, Father Mother Sister Brother, which is out in the UK on 10 April. The cover is by Berlin-based illustrator Yannik Saal.
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Little White Lies
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…
@clarisseloughrey.bsky.social
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@daveyjenkins.bsky.social
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@jakecole.bsky.social
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@carolaverygrant.bsky.social
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@judysquirrels.bsky.social
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. Illustrations by Reena Wu, Simone Goder, Racheal Bruce, Stephanie Monohan, Michelle Urra and Bertal Vallo.
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19 days ago
Reviewed ARCO for
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:
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Recall going on a school trip around age 14/15 and we ended up in this rec room with loads of board games and a pool table. Also had a jukebox, and everyone pooled their money so we could play Prince’s Sexy MF back-to-back for two hrs. Teachers getting more and more livid every time it came on.
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Weeping with joy as I managed to pick up a ex-Record Store Day copy of one of my favourite albums of all time, Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci’s Barafundle.
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First sensible thing this mf has said while in office…
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Josh Slater-Williams
22 days ago
Joined
@leilalatif.bsky.social
and
@kambole.bsky.social
to discuss RESURRECTION, EVERYBODY TO KENMURE STREET and STALKER on this week's Truth & Movies, with bonus Oscar "predictions"
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Resurrection | Everyone to Kenmure Street | Stalker (1979) | Truth & Movies: A Little White Lies Podcast
https://shows.acast.com/truthandmovies/episodes/resurrection-everyone-to-kenmure-street-stalker-1979
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Little White Lies
24 days ago
Sandy Powell's work in costume design is both a visual feast and also a treatise on the period film itself, reminding us that the past can only offer so much of itself, and the rest must be filled with dreams
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Celebrating the Splendour, Anarchy and Creative Genius of Sandy Powell
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s reimaging of James Whale’s 1935 classic The Bride of Frankenstein marks 40 years in the singular career of costume designer Sandy…
https://lwlies.com/deep-cuts/sandy-powell
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kambole campbell
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wrote about da Looney Tunes for
@lwlies.com
’s new(ish) Big Shorts column! with a lot of great input from director of recent feature The Day The Earth Blew Up, Peter Browngardt:
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The Elastic Worlds of the Looney Tunes
With insights from The Day The Earth Blew Up director Peter Browngardt, we salute the mad, mad, mad, mad worlds of Bugs, Daffy and co.
https://lwlies.com/big-s/looney-tunes-shorts
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If you ever see the term "big swing" in a film review, that means the film is bad in an interesting way.
about 1 month ago
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Got an email from Netflix titled "We've Added Something You Might Like". Intrigued, I opened the email to discover they have added The Boss Baby (2017) to their platform.
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Katherine McLaughlin
about 1 month ago
I spoke to Amanda Seyfried
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about The Testament of Ann Lee
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Amanda Seyfried: ‘This movie has changed me’
The star of The Testament of Ann Lee expounds on the joys of giving yourself over to cinema.
https://lwlies.com/interviews/amanda-seyfried-the-testament-of-ann-lee
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Excited for Paramount to give us a stream of starless, prestige versions of Daily Wire productions, each one crashing and burning harder than the last…
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Three euphoric films on this week's episode, plus a big up to Abel Ferrara's new memoir, Scene.
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No doubt at all that Labour will now lean further and harder into their swing right rather than a light capitulation towards what they think is the progressive cause, but is actually the reason people voted for them in the first place.
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A perfect album. Shoulda been a million-seller…
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claire biddles
about 1 month ago
just seen that my
@lwlies.com
interview with daniel blumberg about THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE is now online as well as in the magazine :) have a read please
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Daniel Blumberg: ‘The ingredients were there to make something…
Meeting the compositional maestro behind the complex web of sounds and rhythms in Mona Fastvold’s The Testament of Ann Lee.
https://lwlies.com/interviews/daniel-blumberg-the-testament-of-ann-lee
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Omg it’s happening!
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Little White Lies
about 1 month ago
"I’m always searching for the perfect choreography between the camera and the performer" – The maker of The Testament of Ann Lee on creating a radical biography that’s forged in ecstatic song. In conversation with Mona Fastvold:
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Mona Fastvold: ‘I’m always searching for the perfect choreography…
The maker of The Testament of Ann Lee on creating a radical biography that’s forged in ecstatic song.
https://lwlies.com/interviews/mona-fastvold-the-testament-of-ann-lee
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Sucks we’re getting a Cliff Booth spin-off movie when the world is clearly hankering for a Cyril Woodcock spin-off movie.
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Little White Lies
about 1 month ago
Cal McMau’s visceral feature debut, set in a men’s prison, provides a useful lens for considering how pop culture informs our understanding of policing and justice.
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What Wasteman shows us about the reality of prisons and the potential…
Cal McMau’s visceral feature debut, set in a men's prison, provides a useful lens for considering how pop culture informs our understanding of policing…
https://lwlies.com/this-just-in/wasteman-policing-prisons
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MidCenturyCinema
about 2 months ago
Frederick Wiseman appreciations:
@daveyjenkins.bsky.social
:
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@alissawilkinson.bsky.social
:
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/m...
Philip Concannon:
www.bfi.org.uk/features/fre...
@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social
:
www.rogerebert.com/tributes/fre...
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The Eye of a Camera: Frederick Wiseman (1930-2026) | Tributes | Roger Ebert
A legendary documentarian is gone.
https://www.rogerebert.com/tributes/frederick-wiseman-1930-2026
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RIP Frederick Wiseman. I wrote a little remembrance for
@lwlies.com
about how I discovered his films, how my long journey commenced, and why I love the work so, so much.
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RIP Frederick Wiseman – In remembrance of the American dean of…
Our homage to one of the great filmmakers of the modern age who leaves behind him a corpus of worked unmatched in the world of film and art.
https://lwlies.com/in-praise-of/rip-frederick-wiseman
about 2 months ago
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Duvall - acting legend, but also top director. The Apostle - amazing, but also this little-seen masterpiece
about 2 months ago
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Billie
about 2 months ago
Instead of reading the Epstein files and freaking yourself out you could read my lates for
@lwlies.com
on how sexual assault cinema is going beyond graphic depictions to detail the lives of those impacted by sexual violence.
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How representation of sexual assault is changing on screen
Two decades on from the beginning of the MeToo movement, more and more filmmakers are choosing to explore the lasting impact of sexual violence rather…
https://lwlies.com/this-just-in/sexual-assault-on-screen
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Little White Lies
about 2 months ago
Don’t let the excitement of the ritzy feature premieres fool you – Sundance’s brightest gems can be found in their excellent shorts programming.
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Slices of life in the Sundance shorts section
Don't let the excitement of the ritzy feature premieres fool you – Sundance's brightest gems can be found in their excellent shorts programming.
https://lwlies.com/big-s/sundance-shorts-2026
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claire biddles
about 2 months ago
i reviewed amy berg's new jeff buckley documentary for
@lwlies.com
and wrote about why it's difficult to fully capture his artistic and personal strangeness in one film – in cinemas this friday
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It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley review – a touching but incomplete…
Amy Berg's tribute to a singular artist is well-intentioned and often interesting, but doesn't quite live up to the its complex subject.
https://lwlies.com/reviews/its-never-over-jeff-buckley
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Hey new Wuthering Heights – Claire Denis did erotic dough kneading 30 years ago, and better!
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Nénette and Boni (1996) - Dough Scene
YouTube video by I, Kino
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXUyJ-98n54
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I just think this goes so hard in so many ways…
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this take is hotter than the film tbh
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about 2 months ago
some thoughts on wuthering heights
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Wuthering Heights review – pretty vacant
Emerald Fennell sets out to shock with her maximalist take on Emily Brontë's classic novel, but her grand vision lacks depth or heart.
https://lwlies.com/reviews/wuthering-heights-2
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about 2 months ago
I wrote about Gus Van Sant, the new queer cinema, and the stalking of immigrants for
@lwlies.com
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The disturbing prescience of Mala Noche
Forty years ago, Gus Van Sant’s breakout film captured the terror and violence inflicted on immigrants in the United States. Lead actor Tim Streeter…
https://lwlies.com/in-praise-of/mala-noche-gus-van-sant
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Elite podcast, incredible run… Kept me sane during covid, and I still love to scroll through past episode subjects for book token inspo.
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Is this actually the greatest Wuthering Heights adaptation?
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2 months ago
I spoke with Markiplier for
@lwlies.com
. One of the most successful YouTubers on the planet, he now finds himself an overnight box-office sensation — and disruptor In a mutually curious conversation, we explore what IRON LUNG means to film, to games, and to Markiplier
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How gaming YouTuber Markiplier became an overnight box-office…
Iron Lung has unexpectedly turned the box office upside down – what led a YouTube legend to take on Hollywood with his horror feature debut?
https://lwlies.com/this-just-in/markiplier-iron-lung
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