David Jenkins
daveyjenkins.bsky.social
David Jenkins
@daveyjenkins.bsky.social
LWLies editor.
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Out today!! Support insane women!!
November 7, 2025 at 6:56 PM
This feels very “back in the news” in the UK right now… youtu.be/SRRw1ERj2Gc
Brass Eye paedophile blasted into space
YouTube video by Sam Kington
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November 7, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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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…
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November 6, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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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.
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November 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM
me every time I pull off a parry in Expedition 33
November 3, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Daylight savings got you down? Us too, but we’ve got a scarily good offer to lift your spirits 👻

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October 30, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Relay is almost really good. Case of when a film has to stick or twist, and makes the wrong choice.

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Relay review – Riz Ahmed shines in this slick corporate espionage…
David Mackenzie depicts the shady world of corporate whistleblowing and private fixers in this compelling Hitchcockian B-movie.
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October 29, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Top three Hitchcock:

Vertigo
Marnie
I Confess
Top three Hitchcock:

Notorious
The Lady Vanishes
North by Northwest

Give me love and light and sex and occasionally a refined Nazi with a wine cellar
Top 3 Hitchcock?

Rear Window
Shadow of a Doubt
Psycho/The Birds (tie)
This can change.

Apologies to Rebecca, Vertigo, Strangers on a Train, etc.
October 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Another stunning O’Connor performance, another Reichardt dream.

The Mastermind review: lwlies.com/reviews/the-...
The Mastermind review – another Reichardt dream
An art theft spells disaster for Josh O'Connor in Kelly Reichardt's excellent Vietnam-era heist dramedy.
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October 23, 2025 at 10:38 AM
BFI screening an all-timer this Sunday… whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...
Buy cinema tickets for Public Housing | BFI Southbank
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October 22, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Still some seats for the LWL screening of Frankenstein at the Rio Cinema tomorrow! Grab £5 tix with code LITTLEWHITEFIVE and pick up a copy of our Frankenstein issue in person! riocinema.org.uk/Rio.dll/Book...
Rio Cinema | Booking
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October 21, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Guillermo del Toro handles Mary Shelley’s canonical text with the tenderness of a butterfly, exulting in the author’s wisdom and sense of high tragedy while bringing his own steampunk spin to the material.

Review: lwlies.com/reviews/fran...
Frankenstein review – Jacob Elordi is a revelation
Guillermo del Toro handles Mary Shelley’s canonical text with the tenderness of a butterfly, exulting in the author’s wisdom and sense of high tragedy…
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October 16, 2025 at 11:23 AM
This was an epic and enlivening issue to make. Proud that every illustration has been hand-crafted by human people.
🦋 Announcing for pre-order… 🦋

Little White Lies 110 – The Frankenstein issue.

A hand-crafted shrine to @realgdt.bsky.social’s masterwork of imaginative and personalised literary adaptation.

Cover screen print by LWLies’ art director @boglio.bsky.social featuring Oscar Issac and Jacob Elordi.
October 15, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Rose of Nevada is a fascinating Brexit movie, George McKay as the collective Ego (rejecting the nostalgic past) and Callum Turner as the collective Id (finding salvation in a mythical before time).
October 15, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Show me one (1) person who wants this?
October 14, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The original KPop Demon Hunters
October 11, 2025 at 12:19 PM
With Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother (which I liked a lot!), it’s pretty funny to me that JJ thinks PG Tips is a luxury brand.
October 9, 2025 at 10:30 AM
As it heads off to the printers, especially proud of this next issue of @LWLies as it has been made with minimal digital intervention, all the artwork made via practical, analog means. We celebrate illustrators and their intricate human process in the issue.
October 9, 2025 at 8:15 AM
George M during his AI jury duty…
October 9, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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Breaking: PTA confesses that he is NOT a hardcore Steely Dan fan!
I think this might be the best ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER Q&A I’ve heard so far. Great questions from @daveyjenkins.bsky.social and some interesting insights into PTA’s research. He cites Bryan Burrough’s book DAYS OF RAGE as a key touchstone. (9 mins in) #FilmSky

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October 6, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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I think this might be the best ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER Q&A I’ve heard so far. Great questions from @daveyjenkins.bsky.social and some interesting insights into PTA’s research. He cites Bryan Burrough’s book DAYS OF RAGE as a key touchstone. (9 mins in) #FilmSky

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One Battle After Another + Paul Thomas Anderson | Magnolia (1999) | Licorice Pizza (2021)
Podcast Episode · Truth & Movies: A Little White Lies Podcast · 26/09/2025 · 1h 22m
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October 6, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Just heard an ad for an AI publishing tool that weeds out AI plagiarism.
October 4, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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and so is harris dickinson's urchin, featuring frank dillane who should be everywhere imo lwlies.com/reviews/urchin
Urchin review – a sharp, empathetic study of life on the fringes
Harris Dickinson proves there's no end to his talents with his feature debut about a homeless Londoner who keeps running into trouble.
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October 3, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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good week at the movies in the UK, benny safdie's smashing machine is wonderful lwlies.com/reviews/the-...
The Smashing Machine review – a moving portrait of masculinity in flux
Benny Safdie delivers a knock-out with Dwayne Johnson starring as UFC pioneer Mark Kerr.
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October 3, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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On a very special (and long) episode of Truth & Movies, myself and @daveyjenkins.bsky.social and Marina Ashioti travel to Amsterdam and meet Tilda Swinton, Joanna Hogg, Apichatpong Weerasethkul & Vincent van Velsen for a mega celebration of Tilda's new exhibition, Ongoing lwlies.com/podcast/spec...
Special Episode: Tilda Swinton – Ongoing at the Eye Filmmuseum,…
On this very special episode of Truth & Movies, the LWLies team head over to Amsterdam to experience the opening of a new exhibition at the Eye…
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October 2, 2025 at 6:29 PM