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Introducing…
LWLies issue 111, dedicated to the meta-musical marvel that is Mona Fastvold’s The Testament of Ann Lee.
Cover art by Aleksandra Czudżak
Introducing…
LWLies issue 111, dedicated to the meta-musical marvel that is Mona Fastvold’s The Testament of Ann Lee.
Cover art by Aleksandra Czudżak
From Star Wars canon expansion to the conclusion of a university-set sitcom and Vince Gilligan’s highly anticipated return to the small screen, here are our TV highlights from this year: lwlies.com/top-ranking/...
The 10 best TV shows of 2025
From Star Wars canon expansion to the conclusion of a university-set sitcom and Vince Gilligan's highly anticipated return to the small screen, here are…
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December 24, 2025 at 11:09 AM
From Star Wars canon expansion to the conclusion of a university-set sitcom and Vince Gilligan’s highly anticipated return to the small screen, here are our TV highlights from this year: lwlies.com/top-ranking/...
Norway’s favourite son on how to follow-up a global hit – with another wistful, intuitive and thought film about melancholy in Sentimental Value.
In conversation with Joachim Trier: lwlies.com/interviews/j...
In conversation with Joachim Trier: lwlies.com/interviews/j...
Joachim Trier: ‘I cling to life’
Norway’s favourite son on how to follow-up a global hit – with another wistful, intuitive and thought film about melancholy in Sentimental Value.
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December 22, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Norway’s favourite son on how to follow-up a global hit – with another wistful, intuitive and thought film about melancholy in Sentimental Value.
In conversation with Joachim Trier: lwlies.com/interviews/j...
In conversation with Joachim Trier: lwlies.com/interviews/j...
With stormy seas ahead in the world of cinema, we celebrate the good and the great from another spectacular year for the medium.
Here's annual top 30 films of the year list: lwlies.com/top-ranking/...
Here's annual top 30 films of the year list: lwlies.com/top-ranking/...
The 30 best films of 2025
With stormy seas ahead in the world of cinema, we celebrate the good and the great from another spectacular year for the medium.
lwlies.com
December 20, 2025 at 9:39 AM
With stormy seas ahead in the world of cinema, we celebrate the good and the great from another spectacular year for the medium.
Here's annual top 30 films of the year list: lwlies.com/top-ranking/...
Here's annual top 30 films of the year list: lwlies.com/top-ranking/...
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I'm in this issue with blu-ray capsules on:
📀 SPLENDID OUTING (soo-yong kim, 1978)
📀 THE DEAD (john huston, 1987)
📀 CITY ON FIRE (ringo lam, 1987)
📀 OVER YOUR DEAD BODY (takashi miike, 2014)
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📀 SPLENDID OUTING (soo-yong kim, 1978)
📀 THE DEAD (john huston, 1987)
📀 CITY ON FIRE (ringo lam, 1987)
📀 OVER YOUR DEAD BODY (takashi miike, 2014)
subscribe: lwlies.com/magazine
💃 Hold everything!!! 💃
Introducing…
LWLies issue 111, dedicated to the meta-musical marvel that is Mona Fastvold’s The Testament of Ann Lee.
Cover art by Aleksandra Czudżak
Introducing…
LWLies issue 111, dedicated to the meta-musical marvel that is Mona Fastvold’s The Testament of Ann Lee.
Cover art by Aleksandra Czudżak
December 18, 2025 at 10:38 AM
I'm in this issue with blu-ray capsules on:
📀 SPLENDID OUTING (soo-yong kim, 1978)
📀 THE DEAD (john huston, 1987)
📀 CITY ON FIRE (ringo lam, 1987)
📀 OVER YOUR DEAD BODY (takashi miike, 2014)
subscribe: lwlies.com/magazine
📀 SPLENDID OUTING (soo-yong kim, 1978)
📀 THE DEAD (john huston, 1987)
📀 CITY ON FIRE (ringo lam, 1987)
📀 OVER YOUR DEAD BODY (takashi miike, 2014)
subscribe: lwlies.com/magazine
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Coming of age with Rob Reiner
Sophie Monks Kaufman’s ripped-from-the-heart piece recalls the life-changing moment she encountered Stand By Me and celebrates the late director’s singularly empathetic and humorous touch.
lwlies.com/opinion/comi...
Sophie Monks Kaufman’s ripped-from-the-heart piece recalls the life-changing moment she encountered Stand By Me and celebrates the late director’s singularly empathetic and humorous touch.
lwlies.com/opinion/comi...
Coming of age with Rob Reiner
In the wake of this Hollywood titan’s sudden and tragic demise, we look back at the life and work of an artist whose life was powered by empathy and…
lwlies.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Coming of age with Rob Reiner
Sophie Monks Kaufman’s ripped-from-the-heart piece recalls the life-changing moment she encountered Stand By Me and celebrates the late director’s singularly empathetic and humorous touch.
lwlies.com/opinion/comi...
Sophie Monks Kaufman’s ripped-from-the-heart piece recalls the life-changing moment she encountered Stand By Me and celebrates the late director’s singularly empathetic and humorous touch.
lwlies.com/opinion/comi...
Coming of age with Rob Reiner
Sophie Monks Kaufman’s ripped-from-the-heart piece recalls the life-changing moment she encountered Stand By Me and celebrates the late director’s singularly empathetic and humorous touch.
lwlies.com/opinion/comi...
Sophie Monks Kaufman’s ripped-from-the-heart piece recalls the life-changing moment she encountered Stand By Me and celebrates the late director’s singularly empathetic and humorous touch.
lwlies.com/opinion/comi...
Coming of age with Rob Reiner
In the wake of this Hollywood titan’s sudden and tragic demise, we look back at the life and work of an artist whose life was powered by empathy and…
lwlies.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Coming of age with Rob Reiner
Sophie Monks Kaufman’s ripped-from-the-heart piece recalls the life-changing moment she encountered Stand By Me and celebrates the late director’s singularly empathetic and humorous touch.
lwlies.com/opinion/comi...
Sophie Monks Kaufman’s ripped-from-the-heart piece recalls the life-changing moment she encountered Stand By Me and celebrates the late director’s singularly empathetic and humorous touch.
lwlies.com/opinion/comi...
💃 Hold everything!!! 💃
Introducing…
LWLies issue 111, dedicated to the meta-musical marvel that is Mona Fastvold’s The Testament of Ann Lee.
Cover art by Aleksandra Czudżak
Introducing…
LWLies issue 111, dedicated to the meta-musical marvel that is Mona Fastvold’s The Testament of Ann Lee.
Cover art by Aleksandra Czudżak
December 17, 2025 at 12:43 PM
💃 Hold everything!!! 💃
Introducing…
LWLies issue 111, dedicated to the meta-musical marvel that is Mona Fastvold’s The Testament of Ann Lee.
Cover art by Aleksandra Czudżak
Introducing…
LWLies issue 111, dedicated to the meta-musical marvel that is Mona Fastvold’s The Testament of Ann Lee.
Cover art by Aleksandra Czudżak
We’re back on digital paradise of Pandora for this quietly radical sequel in which eye-popping action is combined with the director’s own geopolitical frustration with the world right now
Avatar: Fire and Ash review – another James Cameron must-see
We’re back on digital paradise of Pandora for this quietly radical sequel in which eye-popping action is combined with the director’s own geopolitical…
lwlies.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:55 PM
We’re back on digital paradise of Pandora for this quietly radical sequel in which eye-popping action is combined with the director’s own geopolitical frustration with the world right now
Absolutely devastating news about the passing of Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle. What an achievement to make so many people’s favourite film, but from a range of six different titles. Here on the set of the superlative and unique The Princess Bride.
December 15, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Absolutely devastating news about the passing of Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle. What an achievement to make so many people’s favourite film, but from a range of six different titles. Here on the set of the superlative and unique The Princess Bride.
Udo Kier, a unique presence who could do more in 2 mins of screen time than most actors could do in 90+. RIP
November 24, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Udo Kier, a unique presence who could do more in 2 mins of screen time than most actors could do in 90+. RIP
Musical theatre has always thrived on the ability of characters being able to convey their thoughts and/or emotions through song, but has it ever felt quite as stupid and telegraphed as this?
Read our review of Wicked: For Good:
Read our review of Wicked: For Good:
Wicked: For Good review – Chu is as much a fraud as his Wizard
Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo shine together, but Jon M Chu's second instalment of the Broadway adaptation is otherwise a bloated, unimaginative mess.
lwlies.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Musical theatre has always thrived on the ability of characters being able to convey their thoughts and/or emotions through song, but has it ever felt quite as stupid and telegraphed as this?
Read our review of Wicked: For Good:
Read our review of Wicked: For Good:
The Ice Tower is as fragile and delicate as a snowflake, as disorientating and mysterious as adolescence, and as dark as a winter’s night – @antbit.projectedfigures.com
Read our ❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️ review:
Read our ❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️ review:
The Ice Tower review – a fairy tale frío-noir that will give you…
Lucile Hadžihalilović's mesmerising riff on the famous Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale is a true triumph of imagination.
lwlies.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM
The Ice Tower is as fragile and delicate as a snowflake, as disorientating and mysterious as adolescence, and as dark as a winter’s night – @antbit.projectedfigures.com
Read our ❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️ review:
Read our ❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️ review:
As Mathieu Kassovitz’s cult thriller turns 30, its pertinence and influence continue to reverberate across our own uncertain times
Rage and defiance in les banlieues – La Haine at 30
As Mathieu Kassovitz’s cult thriller turns 30, its pertinence and influence continue to reverberate across our own uncertain times.
lwlies.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
As Mathieu Kassovitz’s cult thriller turns 30, its pertinence and influence continue to reverberate across our own uncertain times
Portishead’s Geoff Barrow teams with comic book writer Rob Williams to pen a tightly-wound, unexpected rave-era thriller that delivers the goods.
Game review: lwlies.com/reviews/game
Game review: lwlies.com/reviews/game
Game review – a taut, lean and claustrophobic homegrown thriller
Portishead’s Geoff Barrow teams with comic book writer Rob Williams to pen a tightly-wound, unexpected rave-era thriller that delivers the goods.
lwlies.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Portishead’s Geoff Barrow teams with comic book writer Rob Williams to pen a tightly-wound, unexpected rave-era thriller that delivers the goods.
Game review: lwlies.com/reviews/game
Game review: lwlies.com/reviews/game
It pains us to say that The Running Man is a bit of a bust, imagination and edge both missing in action.
lwlies.com/reviews/the-...
lwlies.com/reviews/the-...
The Running Man review – brings very little new to the death sports…
Edgar Wright’s slick new adaptation of the dystopian Stephen King novel fails to tackle some of the key issues of our age.
lwlies.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:55 PM
It pains us to say that The Running Man is a bit of a bust, imagination and edge both missing in action.
lwlies.com/reviews/the-...
lwlies.com/reviews/the-...
Thom Eberhardt’s counter-culture classic from 1984 is a poem to doomed youth.
lwlies.com/in-praise-of...
lwlies.com/in-praise-of...
What Night of the Comet Taught Me About the End of the World
Thom Eberhardt’s counter-culture classic from 1984 is a poem to doomed youth.
lwlies.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Thom Eberhardt’s counter-culture classic from 1984 is a poem to doomed youth.
lwlies.com/in-praise-of...
lwlies.com/in-praise-of...
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Thrilled to write even more about BUGONIA, this time over at @lwlies.com where I look at the film as a synthesis of the various strains of Stanley Kubrick running through the work of Yorgos Lanthimos. (Many thnaks to @daveyjenkins.bsky.social for helping focus the idea!) lwlies.com/this-just-in...
Yorgos Lanthimos, Bugonia, and the Long Shadow of Stanley Kubrick
Kubrickian echoes reverberate throughout the Greek filmmaker's oeuvre. With Bugonia, those connections are shaped into a singular package that transcends…
lwlies.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Thrilled to write even more about BUGONIA, this time over at @lwlies.com where I look at the film as a synthesis of the various strains of Stanley Kubrick running through the work of Yorgos Lanthimos. (Many thnaks to @daveyjenkins.bsky.social for helping focus the idea!) lwlies.com/this-just-in...
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interviewed one of my absolute favourite filmmakers in the world, lynne ramsay, about die my love. she is extremely lovely, quite shy, and a total genius, imo lwlies.com/interviews/l...
Lynne Ramsay: ‘I love pushing people as far as I can’
One of Britain’s most iconic and beloved directors on her striking new film, Die My Love, and why she is drawn to extreme material.
lwlies.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM
interviewed one of my absolute favourite filmmakers in the world, lynne ramsay, about die my love. she is extremely lovely, quite shy, and a total genius, imo lwlies.com/interviews/l...
"The cinema of Lynne Ramsay is cinema of the senses, raw and delicate and alive, like holding a butterfly cupped between your palms and feeling its wings beat against your skin. Jennifer Lawrence completely understands this, inhibiting Grace with a total lack of vanity."
Die My Love review:
Die My Love review:
Die My Love review – Lynne Ramsay articulates the inarticulate
Lynne Ramsay finds a kindred spirit in Jennifer Lawrence, joining forces for a blistering portrait of a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
lwlies.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:37 AM
"The cinema of Lynne Ramsay is cinema of the senses, raw and delicate and alive, like holding a butterfly cupped between your palms and feeling its wings beat against your skin. Jennifer Lawrence completely understands this, inhibiting Grace with a total lack of vanity."
Die My Love review:
Die My Love review:
There are some moments of pure magic in Ronan Day-Lewis’s directorial debut, but a tone of perpetual glumness doesn’t make for a fun time at the movies.
Our review of Anemone: lwlies.com/reviews/anem...
Our review of Anemone: lwlies.com/reviews/anem...
Anemone review – Daniel Day-Lewis’s return to the screen is a dour…
There are some moments of pure magic in Ronan Day-Lewis’s directorial debut, but a tone of perpetual glumness doesn’t make for a fun time at the movies.
lwlies.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:23 PM
There are some moments of pure magic in Ronan Day-Lewis’s directorial debut, but a tone of perpetual glumness doesn’t make for a fun time at the movies.
Our review of Anemone: lwlies.com/reviews/anem...
Our review of Anemone: lwlies.com/reviews/anem...
Reclaiming the trash filmmaker and trans icon from an era that couldn’t comprehend his shape-shifting forms of self-identification.
Ed Wood Jr and the pain of pronouns: lwlies.com/in-praise-of...
Ed Wood Jr and the pain of pronouns: lwlies.com/in-praise-of...
Ed Wood Jr and the pain of pronouns
Reclaiming the trash filmmaker and trans icon from an era that couldn’t comprehend his shape-shifting forms of self-identification.
lwlies.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Reclaiming the trash filmmaker and trans icon from an era that couldn’t comprehend his shape-shifting forms of self-identification.
Ed Wood Jr and the pain of pronouns: lwlies.com/in-praise-of...
Ed Wood Jr and the pain of pronouns: lwlies.com/in-praise-of...
With Frankenstein landing on Netflix this week, here's @hannahstrong.co.uk in conversation with @realgdt.bsky.social on the creation of the film he
has always wanted to make.
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has always wanted to make.
🖤🥀 lwlies.com/interviews/g...
Guillermo del Toro: ‘The world breaks your heart, but you carry on’
Going face to face writer/director Guillermo del Toro to find out what it’s like to finally create the film he has always wanted to make.
lwlies.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:38 PM
With Frankenstein landing on Netflix this week, here's @hannahstrong.co.uk in conversation with @realgdt.bsky.social on the creation of the film he
has always wanted to make.
🖤🥀 lwlies.com/interviews/g...
has always wanted to make.
🖤🥀 lwlies.com/interviews/g...
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I wrote this!
I interviewed Steve Box and Aardman co-founder Peter Lord!
We discuss:
- crafting the famous dogfight
- DreamWorks’ impact on the film
- UK vs US filmmaking
Give it a read!
I interviewed Steve Box and Aardman co-founder Peter Lord!
We discuss:
- crafting the famous dogfight
- DreamWorks’ impact on the film
- UK vs US filmmaking
Give it a read!
Twenty years ago Aardman created a monster. A carrot-gobbling monster that baffled its American investors…
The wild, wacky tale of Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Twenty years ago Aardman created a monster. A carrot-gobbling monster that baffled its American investors...
lwlies.com
October 30, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I wrote this!
I interviewed Steve Box and Aardman co-founder Peter Lord!
We discuss:
- crafting the famous dogfight
- DreamWorks’ impact on the film
- UK vs US filmmaking
Give it a read!
I interviewed Steve Box and Aardman co-founder Peter Lord!
We discuss:
- crafting the famous dogfight
- DreamWorks’ impact on the film
- UK vs US filmmaking
Give it a read!