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Her family is part of the Penan people – nomadic hunter-gatherers who are one of the hundreds of indigenous groups on the island – and Barras follows…

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From the very opening scene, which shows grainy VHS footage of a gross occult ceremony to the suspicious behaviour of foster mum Laura (Sally Hawkins)…

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A good comedy must be funny; this shouldn’t be a debatable statement, and yet it would seem that as of late, too many studio efforts in the genre are…

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The queer optimism of My Beautiful Laundrette | Little White Lies

What surprised me most about the film, which I’d assumed centred around Daniel Day-Lewis’ Johnny Burfoot – who a friend understandably claims as one of…

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These are minor quibbles in the bigger picture: for some reason they’ve put together a legacy sequel to Jim Gillespie's 1997 slasher underdog, I Know What…

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Harvest + Harry Melling | Friendship | I Love… | Little White Lies

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The Fantastic Four: First Steps + Ralph Ineson |… | Little White Lies

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We started, in 2011, with the pop singer-songwriter Katy Perry stepping into the pearly-white high-heels of that most coveted role in the world of…

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The 2025 Venice line-up is insanely stacked | Little White Lies

Competition La Grazia (Paolo Sorrentino) The Wizard of the Kremlin (Olivier Assayas) Jay Kelly (Noah Baumbach) The Voice of Hind Rajab (Kaouther Ben…

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The Bad Guys 2 review – an absolute hoot | Little White Lies

As, on a purely vibes-based deduction, it’s not a film that too many people were either hankering for or expecting. The surprising news, then, is that…

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The Fantastic Four: First Steps review – hard not… | Little White Lies

Just as the production design begins to lift First Steps out of Marvel Studios anonymity, Michael Giacchino’s score also feels full of character –…

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Marcello Mastroianni: A Life Lived Beautifully | Little White Lies

Wrapping up our La Dolce Vita partnership with Disaronno for their 500-year anniversary*, we commissioned ace video editor and regular LWLies contributor…

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Friendship review – The Wario to I Love You Man's… | Little White Lies

The protagonist of Andrew DeYoung’s Friendship is one such case: Craig Waterman (Tim Robinson) is a marketing executive with a beautiful wife (Kate Mara),…

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Athina Rachel Tsangari: 'It’s about how easily… | Little White Lies

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A report from the bleeding edge of non-fiction… | Little White Lies

The Creative Nonfiction Film Weekend celebrated its second incarnation this year at the Rio Cinema in Dalston, having decamped from the Genesis in Mile…

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In her seminal 1979 essay collection ‘The White Album’, Californian writer Joan Didion sought to summarise her relationship with water and its many forms,…

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Walter knows the lands like the back of his hand, having lived there his whole life, but not always among the peasants who work the land. Once the direct…

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Superman | Pavements + Alex Ross Perry | Superman… | Little White Lies

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You almost can’t quite believe that someone hadn’t had this idea before: a well-to-do creative couple living in a cosy Madrid apartment decide that they…

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For those that don’t know going in (like me), Pavement – or “The Slacker Rolling Stones of the 90s” as a talking head describes them – are one of the…

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Rather than a dour, trauma-based origin story, his Superman kicks off with the Man of Steel (played by David Corenswet) already an established figure,…

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Till Tech Do Us Part: Romance in the age of… | Little White Lies

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Inside The Arzner, the UK’s first dedicated… | Little White Lies

As the UK’s first LGBTQ-focused cinema, The Arzner provides a dedicated space for queer representation on screen, a dark screening room in which greater…

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My Soapy IP Summer: Beach Read vs Airport Novel… | Little White Lies

Both the beach read and the airport novel have their time and place. However, despite their shared qualities on the page, there seems to be a clear split…

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I myself constantly try and not remember the childhood streets I walked down a child in Khartoum, of eating fatoor at my grandmother’s home and of the…

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But the film was a hit, and the cinema of basketball has been coming at a steady clip ever since. The sport has been especially prevalent at the cinema in…

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The Existential Chic of La Notte | Little White Lies

Marcello Mastroianni plays Giovanni, a successful novelist, apparently implacable, coolly kitted out in a black suit and tie. The film starts when they…

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If it’s a vague stab at shaking up the biopic formula it doesn’t work; in practice it’s needlessly confusing, and that the romance between reserved,…

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David Cronenberg: 'You don’t want to bore people… | Little White Lies

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Jurassic World Rebirth | The Shrouds + David… | Little White Lies

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This icy psychodrama of deep familial discord plays out on the powdery-hot sands of the Spanish coast (although the film was shot in Greece) and sees the…

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These moving, character-focused recent films share one thing: they were cast by Lucy Pardee. Demystifying the casting process, Pardee notes that finding…

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Time in the Flesh: A Queer East Correspondence | Little White Lies

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Rather than a triumphant replay of the old hits, Jurassic World: Rebirth is a bit more like Malibu Stacy with a new hat. Veteran screenwriter David Koepp,…

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Stans review – mostly the same old thing | Little White Lies

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Time in the Flesh: A Queer East Correspondence | Little White Lies

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