Little White Lies

11/10/2024

Introducing : the Bird issue 🦅
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Franz Rogowski illustrated by graces the cover of our latest print edition, a deep-dive into the world of Andrea Arnold and her scintillating latest – head to lwlies.com for a detailed breakdown of the issue’s contents 🩷
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20/09/2024

Don’t miss one of 2024’s most tender, honest and brilliantly witty films – His Three Daughters is now available to stream on Netflix.

13/09/2024

Amy Adams is on great form in Marielle Heller's adaptation of Rachel Yoder's novel about a new mother who is alarmed discover she is turning into a dog.

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Amy Adams is on great form in Marielle Heller's adaptation of Rachel Yoder's novel about a new mother who is alarmed discover she is turning into a dog.

13/09/2024

In the cinema of Pedro Almodóvar, gender proves more fluid and arbitrary than in much of contemporary cinema

In the cinema of Pedro Almodóvar, gender proves more fluid and arbitrary than in much of contemporary cinema.

11/09/2024

Charli XCX’s cultural phenomenon speaks to a cinematic canon of reckless, ruthless movies – putting women and girls front and centre.

What is brat cinema? – read now on lwlies.com

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11/09/2024

Charli XCX's cultural phenomenon speaks to a cinematic canon of reckless, ruthless movies – putting women and girls front and centre

Charli XCX's cultural phenomenon speaks to a cinematic canon of reckless, ruthless movies – putting women and girls front and centre.

09/09/2024

John Crowley delivers a millennial cancer weepie with two game leads in Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield

John Crowley delivers a millennial cancer weepie with two game leads in Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield.

05/09/2024

The Brutalist towers across the Venice line-up this year, tragic and wry and gorgeous and disturbing – any number of hyperbolic terms might apply to the beast that Brady Corbet has created

Adrien Brody is phenomonal in Brady Corbet's sublime three-and-a-half hour drama, as a Jewish architect arrives in post-war America to a hostile new world.

05/09/2024

Joker: Folie à Deux dares to ask: what if a clown was sad, but also wanted to sing?

Todd Phillips recruits Lady Gaga to his circus act as Joaquin Phoenix reprises his role as the crime-committing clown about town in this shockingly amateur musical effort.

29/08/2024

With Blink Twice out in cinemas, get stuck in our 104th issue celebrating Zoë Kravitz’s killer thriller 🐍

Includes interviews with writer/director Zoë Kravitz and stars Naomi Ackie, Adria Arjona plus an essay on Channing Tatum’s filmography 🌺

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06/08/2024

Introducing : The Blink Twice issue 🌺🐍
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We’re delighted to have .sola’s vibrant portrait of Naomi Ackie gracing the cover of our new issue celebrating Zoë Kravitz’s directorial debut 🌴
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Inside, exclusive interviews with:



And producer Bruce Cohen
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Head to lwlies.com for a more in-depth look at what’s in store and order your copy via the link in bio
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opens in cinemas on 23 August

28/06/2024

It’s a Kinds of Kindness extravaganza week on the LWLies website 💛❤️💙

Back in May at the Cannes Film Festival, spent a day with the stacked cast and crew – check out her interviews with Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe, Hong Chau, Margaret Qualley, Mamoudou Athie, plus Yorgos Lanthimos and co-writer Efthimis Filippou!

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26/06/2024

“In most films, the title screen is the first character you see.”

In our latest video essay, Monotype’s Marie Boulanger explains why movie fonts matter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd-sMaix1hA

26/06/2024

Kinds of Kindness is a rare example of an anthology film in which all the constituent parts work like gangbusters

Yorgos Lanthimos returns with his merry band to explore – in triptych form – all the funny and sick ways in which we entrap ourselves inside psychological prisons of our own making.

24/06/2024

Movie fonts matter. A well-considered typeface can help to establish the style and tone of a film, and even impact our viewing experience. Head over to our YouTube channel to get the full story (🔗 in bio)

20/06/2024

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20/06/2024

Two decades on from an unlikely cultural phenomenon, the star of Jarred Hess's lo-fi cult classic talks Moon Boots, Jamiroquai and doing his own stunts

Two decades on from an unlikely cultural phenomenon, the star of Jarred Hess's lo-fi cult classic talks Moon Boots, Jamiroquai and doing his own stunts.

17/06/2024

As Sam Mendes gears up to make his behemoth Beatles biopic, the director of 1994 early-Beatles drama Backbeat reflects on the story of Stuart Sutcliffe – the Beatle who wasn't

As Sam Mendes gears up to make his behemoth Beatles biopic, the director of 1994 early-Beatles drama Backbeat reflects on the story of Stuart Sutcliffe – the Beatle who wasn't.

06/06/2024

Announcing LWLies 103: The issue! 🥤📹👕🥩🥪
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Featuring exclusive interviews with Yorgos Lanthimos, Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe, Hong Chau, and Efthimis Filippou.
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16/05/2024

Megalopolis is the folly to end all follies – and it rules!

Ignore the haters – this is the kaleidoscopic, enriching, Wellsian vision of a grand old master with nothing to lose.

15/05/2024

It's been nine long years – worth it, baby!

George Miller fires up his war rig and roars across the Australian outback once more, this time telling the origin story of the fearsome Imperator Furiosa.

14/05/2024

Discover the Japanese fishing town that inspired Studio Ghibli’s Ponyo

On a visit to the Edo-period town of Tomonoura, Adam Marshall explores the real – and imagined – backdrop to one of Hayao Miyazaki’s most beloved films.