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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 8h
Tom Cruise hams it up as an oil-drilling oligarch in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s overstuffed satire. Digger review: lwlies.com/reviews/digger
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Digger review – a satire with no meaningful target
Tom Cruise hams it up as an oil-drilling oligarch in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s overstuffed satire.
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 28/09/2026
Molly Manners’s witty coming-of-age tale follows two schoolgirls who turn falling in love with their Geography teacher into a summer project. Extra Geography review: lwlies.com/reviews/extr...
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Extra Geography review – a delightfully heightened take on girlhood
Molly Manners’s witty coming-of-age tale follows two ambitious schoolgirls who turn falling in love with their Geography teacher into a summer project.
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 28/09/2026
Suzannah Mirghani spins a tender coming-of-age story from Sudanese cotton, reclaiming a country too often seen only through tragedy. Cotton Queen review: lwlies.com/reviews/cott...
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Cotton Queen review – reclaims the crown for Sudanese girls
Suzannah Mirghani spins a tender coming-of-age story from Sudanese cotton, reclaiming a country too often seen only through tragedy.
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 24/09/2026
Charles Melton on getting jacked up and fighting fit for his enigmatic role in Her Private Hell. In conversation with Charles Melton: lwlies.com/in-conversat...
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Charles Melton: ‘It was like a waking dream’
Charles Melton on getting jacked up and fighting fit for his enigmatic role in Her Private Hell.
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 24/09/2026
With Crazy Lips and Gore From Outer Space resurfacing, we speak to J‑Horror pioneer Takashige Ichise about the unruly side of Japan’s Y2K horror boom and the films that slipped through the cracks. lwlies.com/in-conversat...
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The forgotten hybrids of Japan’s Y2K horror boom
With Crazy Lips and Gore From Outer Space resurfacing, we speak to J-Horror pioneer Takashige Ichise about the unruly side of Japan’s Y2K horror boom and…
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 23/09/2026
Horror heroine Sophie Thatcher talks music, madness and surrendering to the strange world of Nicolas Winding Refn’s Her Private Hell. In conversation with Sophie Thatcher: lwlies.com/in-conversat...
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Sophie Thatcher: ‘It felt like the most I’d ever been seen’
Horror heroine Sophie Thatcher talks music, madness and surrendering to the strange world of Nicolas Winding Refn’s Her Private Hell.
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 23/09/2026
Cult auteur Nicolas Winding Refn on his return to cinema – and from the dead – with a neon-hued fable about a father-daughter relationship from hell. In conversation with Nicolas Winding Refn: lwlies.com/in-conversat...
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Nicolas Winding Refn: ‘I’d been given a gift to start over again’
Nicolas Winding Refn on his return to the cinema – and from the dead – with a neon-hued fable about a father-daughter relationship from hell.
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 23/09/2026
Irrepressible and unique, Nicolas Winding Refn returns for some big-screen shenanigans in this pristine, slowcore cyberpunk fable that offers a masterclass in atmosphere and worldbuilding. Her Private Hell review: lwlies.com/reviews/her-...
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Her Private Hell review – a phantasmagoria bathed in neon
Irrepressible and unique, Nicolas Winding Refn returns for some big-screen shenanigans in this pristine, slowcore cyberpunk fable that offers a…
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 23/09/2026
Jane Austen’s classic romance finds fresh life in Georgia Oakley’s moodier, more naturalistic adaptation. Sense and Sensibility review: lwlies.com/reviews/sens...
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Sense and Sensibility review – a wildly beautiful successor
Jane Austen’s classic romance finds fresh life in Georgia Oakley’s moodier, more naturalistic adaptation.
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 21/09/2026
Na Hong-jin returns with the most expensive Korean film ever made, a rip-snorting creature feature with eccentricity and action to burn. Hope review: lwlies.com/reviews/hope
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Hope review – a rip-snorting creature feature
Na Hong-jin returns with the most expensive Korean film ever made, a rip-snorting creature feature with eccentricity and action to burn.
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 21/09/2026
In his first film in 14 years, Ross McElwee comes to terms with the death of his son Adrian, and what good documentary is in the face of heartbreak. Remake review: lwlies.com/reviews/remake
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Remake review – a remarkable tribute
In his first film in 14 years, Ross McElwee comes to terms with the death of his son Adrian, and what good documentary is in the face of heartbreak.
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 17/09/2026
Saoirse Ronan excels as a burnt-out primary school teacher in this unhinged satire that’s as funny as it is unsettling. Bad Apples review: lwlies.com/reviews/bad-...
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Bad Apples review – twisted black comedy
Saoirse Ronan stars as a burnt-out teacher in this gleefully unhinged satire on a jolted system that’s as funny as it is unsettling.
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 17/09/2026
Garth Jennings mines a treasure trove of archive footage in this joyous concert film, bringing Pulp’s magic to the big screen. Pulp: What Do You Do for an Encore? review: lwlies.com/reviews/pulp
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Pulp: What Do You Do for an Encore? review – will leave a huge smile…
Garth Jennings mines a treasure trove of archive footage in this joyous concert film, bringing Pulp’s magic to the big screen.
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 17/09/2026
Lance Hammer’s long-awaited follow-up to Ballast is a harrowing yet vital tale of dementia, family and the limits of consent. Queen at Sea review: lwlies.com/reviews/quee...
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Queen at Sea review – a harrowing vision of the future
Lance Hammer's long-awaited follow-up to Ballast is a harrowing yet vital tale of dementia, family and the limits of consent.
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 17/09/2026
Bad Bunny video director Stillz makes a startling feature debut with this found-footage odyssey through Medellín’s hillside comunas. Barrio Triste review: lwlies.com/reviews/barr...
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Barrio Triste review – a haunting requiem for the lost boys
Bad Bunny video director Stillz makes a startling feature debut with this found-footage odyssey through Medellín’s hillside comunas.
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 17/09/2026
A light, amusing run-out for Shaun and co, this time battling a Bigfoot-like monster who’s laying siege to their sleepy English village. Shaun the Sheep review: lwlies.com/reviews/shau...
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Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom review – little sheep of…
A light, amusing run-out for Shaun and co, this time battling a Bigfoot-like monster who’s laying siege to their sleepy English village.
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 17/09/2026
A new high bar has been set for video game adaptations in Zach Cregger’s unabashedly nasty take on the beloved, long-running zombie franchise. Resident Evil review: lwlies.com/reviews/resi...
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Resident Evil review – an absolute blast
A new high bar has been set for video game adaptations in Zach Cregger's unabashedly nasty take on the beloved, long-running zombie franchise.
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 16/09/2026
🧵 Toronto International Film Festival 2026: Review Master Thread 🧵 lwlies.com/toronto-film... #TIFF26
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 15/09/2026
Zack Snyder's The Last Photograph: Morally vile, intellectually void, badly made and interminably dull. First-look review from #TIFF26
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The Last Photograph – first-look review
The passion project that Zack Snyder has spent the last two decades developing is an unforgivably dreadful, turgid slog.
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 15/09/2026
Sterling Point is less scary than Widow’s Bay, and far less fraught than Furious, but each of these shows is not pretending to be something they aren’t, and viewers are responding accordingly. Maybe we want TV to feel like TV after all, writes @frazbelina.bsky.social
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Widow’s Bay, Furious, and Sterling Point: How TV fell in love with…
With TV’s biggest night of the year just behind us, we take a look at a new crop of series embracing the medium for what it does best.
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Emma Fraser @frazbelina.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It is great to see TV shows like Widow's Bay, Sterling Point, and Furious that actually feel like they are embracing the medium they are made for. So, it is a real treat that I got to dig into how these shows are doing this for @lwlies.com lwlies.com/small-screen...
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Widow’s Bay, Furious, and Sterling Point: How TV fell in love with…
With TV’s biggest night of the year just behind us, we take a look at a new crop of series embracing the medium for what it does best.
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Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com · 12/09/2026
Wrapped Venice competition with one of its great surprises, Marco Bechis’ tight dictatorship thriller BACK TO BUENOS AIRES. Here’s me for @lwlies.com: lwlies.com/venice-film-...
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Back to Buenos Aires – first-look review
Marcho Bechis' tense drama documents a man's return to a country where he endured brutal treatment in order to testify against the perpatrators.
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Matt Thrift @matt-thrift.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Have the fondest memories of time spent with Jeremy. What were meant to be short chats at his Hanway St, and later Notting Hill, offices ended up lasting hours, as he walked and talked me through his vast archives. Boy, could that man tell a story. A warm, generous titan, and a devastating loss.
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 12/09/2026
Sad to hear about the death of maverick British super producer Jeremy Thomas, responsible for The Shout, The Last Emperor, Naked Lunch, Crash, Sexy Beast, The Dreamers, Thirteen Assassins, Only Lovers Left Alive and many more auteur-driven classics. RIP
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 11/09/2026
Nicolas Winding Refn, live and in person, will be joining us THIS EVENING for a preview of his neon-lit headfuck, Her Private Hell, at Curzon Soho in London. Last few tickets remaining, grab 'em while you can! www.curzon.com/films/her-pr...
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 10/09/2026
🎬 Join us at Curzon Soho tomorrow at 9pm for a preview screening of HER PRIVATE HELL (+extended live intro by Nicolas Winding Refn) 🎟️ Tickets: www.curzon.com/ticketing/se...
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 11/09/2026
Anna Paquin’s brooding performance as a teen growing up in a period of grief and heavily-enforced American patriotism is a perfect microcosm of the nation’s tragedy and accountability. Girlhood in Post‑9/​11 Cinema: Margaret at 15
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Girlhood in Post-9/11 Cinema: Margaret at 15
Anna Paquin's brooding performance as a teen growing up in a period of grief and heavily-enforced American patriotism is a perfect microcosm of the…
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 10/09/2026
🎬 Join us at Curzon Soho tomorrow at 9pm for a preview screening of HER PRIVATE HELL (+extended live intro by Nicolas Winding Refn) 🎟️ Tickets: www.curzon.com/ticketing/se...
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Filmscalpel @filmscalpel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
In 1979, a PG version of Saturday Night Fever hit theaters. @leighsinger.bsky.social dug up this oddity for @lwlies.com and compares it to the original, more mature version. A strong video essay on the power of (re-)editing.
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The alternate Saturday Night Fever you (probably) haven’t seen
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 04/09/2026
LWLies Presents an early preview screening of our latest cover film, HER PRIVATE HELL, next Friday 9.15pm at Curzon Soho... ...with NICOLAS WINDING REFN in attendance! Snag your tickets via @curzon.com: www.curzon.com/films/her-pr...
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Jonah Jeng @jonahjeng.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Ahead of the new RESIDENT EVIL, I revisited the original live-action series for @lwlies.com, examining how it crafts a fascinating posthuman vision by incorporating a video game logic into its narrative and filmmaking. lwlies.com/in-praise-of...
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The Posthumanism of Resident Evil
The original live-action series made mutation and posthuman possibility its playground, and Milla Jovovich a queer icon of reinvention. Ahead of Zach…
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 08/09/2026
A sequel to Practical Magic may sound like a nice idea but, in practice, this is a chore. Practical Magic 2 review: lwlies.com/reviews/prac...
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Practical Magic 2 review – lacking in magic in just about every sense
Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman return as the Owens sisters in an uninspired sequel that conjures little magic.
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 08/09/2026
Ahead of Zach Cregger's Resident Evil remake, @jonahjeng.bsky.social revisits the original live-action series to explore its most enduring qualities
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The Posthumanism of Resident Evil
The original live-action series made mutation and posthuman possibility its playground, and Milla Jovovich a queer icon of reinvention. Ahead of Zach…
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 07/09/2026
Anthony Maras serves up another dramatic re-enactment, this time of the fraught deliberations behind the decision to launch D‑Day. Pressure review: lwlies.com/reviews/pres...
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Pressure review – another war movie for the classroom
Anthony Maras serves up another dramatic re-enactment, this time of the fraught deliberations behind the decision to launch D-Day.
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 07/09/2026
Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano deliver a glossy, good-natured portrait of family dysfunction in 1980s France. Just an Illusion review: lwlies.com/reviews/just...
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Just an Illusion review – an unabashedly feelgood family affair
Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano deliver a glossy, good-natured portrait of family dysfunction in 1980s France.
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Tony Paley @tpaleyfilm.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Thirty-two Nicolas Winding Refn-endorsed B movies in current HER PRIVATE HELL issue of @lwlies.com. A number of these to be found on MUBI and well worth tracking down …
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 06/09/2026
Theo Rollason's wonderful tribute to Derek Jarman is a pure cinematic joy lwlies.com/venice-film-...
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Queer Edward II – first-look review
Theo Rollason's debut feature is a spirited, jubilant portrait of a filmmaking legend at the height of his powers.
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 06/09/2026
A new Lee Chang-dong film is always a major event, and his expertly executed relationship drama Possible Love is no exception lwlies.com/venice-film-...
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Possible Love – first-look review
Two couples from contrasting social classes brush up against each other in Lee Chang-dong's relationship drama.
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Hannah Strong @hannahstrong.co.uk · 05/09/2026
And in Andrew Haigh's A Long Winter, one of my favourite newcomers (Fred Hechinger) gives one of this year's best performances lwlies.com/telluride-fi...
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A Long Winter – first-look review
A short story by Colm Tóibín provides rich material for Andrew Haigh's melancholy family drama.
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Hannah Strong @hannahstrong.co.uk · 05/09/2026
I am not in Telluride but I did review two films - Mike Leigh's Tender Loving Care is incredibly special, particularly to someone whose mother works in social care and grandpa is in the late stages of dementia lwlies.com/telluride-fi...
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Tender Loving Care – first-look review
Mike Leigh's mooted swansong, concerning two social workers grappling with differing relationship and family woes, happens to be one of his finest films.
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Hannah Strong @hannahstrong.co.uk · 05/09/2026
i think lance oppenheim's primetime is pretty fucking great lwlies.com/venice-film-...
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Primetime – first-look review
Robert Pattinson cleanses the world of an ancient evil in Lance Oppenheim's take on the murky story of Chris Hansen and NBC's To Catch A Predator.
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 04/09/2026
LWLies Presents an early preview screening of our latest cover film, HER PRIVATE HELL, next Friday 9.15pm at Curzon Soho... ...with NICOLAS WINDING REFN in attendance! Snag your tickets via @curzon.com: www.curzon.com/films/her-pr...
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 04/09/2026
🧵 Venice Film Festival 2026: Review Master Thread 🧵 lwlies.com/venice-film-... #Venezia83
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 03/09/2026
Sarah Maldoror’s work is art and protest. A new BFI season spotlights her legacy championed by Maldoror’s daughter, Annouchka de Andrade, who has spent the last few years programming and aiding retrospectives of her mother’s work across Europe and America.
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Sarah Maldoror’s Poetry of Resistance
A BFI season curated by Annouchka de Andrade on her mother's work prompts questions about restoration, cultural memory, and the endurance of political art…
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Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com · 02/09/2026
Venice has started on a sour note this year. Here's me on Danny Boyle's misguided INK for @lwlies.com lwlies.com/venice-film-...
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Ink – first-look review
Danny Boyle's take on the rise of Rupert Murdoch and The Sun fails to spin a convincing yarn.
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 02/09/2026
At once a resplendent queer love story and a subtle examination of colonialism, every rewatch of The Handmaiden and its sumptuous staging invites us to notice even more delicious details and knotty complexities.
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Sleeping with the Enemy: The Handmaiden at 10
On the anniversary of Japan's World War II surrender and the end of colonial rule in Korea, we examine how Park Chan-wook folds political critique into…
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 02/09/2026
Kent Jones’ latest stars Willem Dafoe as a forgotten poet drawn back into New York’s art scene by a young fan. Late Fame review: lwlies.com/reviews/late...
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Late Fame review – underserved by a thin script
Kent Jones’ latest stars Willem Dafoe as a forgotten poet drawn back into New York’s art scene by a young fan.
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 02/09/2026
🚨 The 2026 BFI London Film Festival line-up has been announced
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The 2026 BFI London Film Festival line-up has been announced
A packed line-up of big names, hidden treasures and arthouse faves is making its way to the capital as the UK’s biggest film festival returns for its 70th…
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 02/09/2026
Ed Sayers’ crowdsourced documentary stitches together Super‑8 wildlife footage from 40 filmmakers across 25 countries. Super Nature review: lwlies.com/reviews/supe...
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Super Nature review – a grainy, intimate delight
Ed Sayers’ crowdsourced documentary stitches together Super-8 wildlife footage from 40 filmmakers across 25 countries.
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 01/09/2026
A shape-shifting killer stalks two closeted teenagers in Adrian Chiarella’s gripping debut, though the real terror lies in the bigotry of the small town around them. Leviticus review: lwlies.com/reviews/levi...
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Leviticus review – a tender queer horror debut
A shape-shifting killer stalks two closeted teenagers in Adrian Chiarella’s gripping debut, though the real terror lies in the bigotry of the small town…
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