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Hannah Strong

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digital editor @ Little White Lies magazine, future corpse. extremely online and incredibly anxious. wrote SOFIA COPPOLA: FOREVER YOUNG, COLORS OF WES ANDERSON oct 2025. YORGOS LANTHIMOS: THE MODERN PROMETHEUS due 2026. 🤠 https://linktr.ee/hannahstrong

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Hannah Strong @hannahstrong.co.uk · Nov 13

For my new followers – hi! 🤠 I'm Hannah, I mostly write about movies, directors and actors. I'm the Digital Editor at @lwlies.bsky.social, and wrote a book on Sofia Coppola in 2022. My next two books are out in 2025 and 2026 via Quarto and Abrams. There's more info on my website! hannahstrong.co.uk

Hannah Strong – film critic & journalist

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Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social · 10h

Was completely on purpose

Ghoulian Singleton 🎃 @juliansingleton.bsky.social · 13h

Threw on the new Criterion of NIGHTMARE ALLEY 2021 and forgot that the reappearance of Richard Jenkins and Mary Steenburgen makes this the Catalina Wine Mixer of Guillermo Del Toro's oeuvre.

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Hannah Strong @hannahstrong.co.uk · 16h

And yet many people seem to have convinced themselves otherwise!

Hannah Strong @hannahstrong.co.uk · 16h

"Um you use spellcheck" yeah I do and it fucking sucks and I wish it was the old way where it was just a digital dictionary because currently I end up fighting with a useless piece of AI that's trying to tell me things that are WRONG because it learned from TEXT THAT IS WRONG

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Hannah Strong @hannahstrong.co.uk · 16h

A lot of """"creatives"""" have seemingly accepted generative AI as part of art and filmmaking and I'm hear to say you're all big stinky phonies and I hate you

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Robert King @robertking.bsky.social · 19h

For what it’s worth:

Speaking as a showrunner with two writers rooms going on now, this article from Ankler is insane. I don’t know who the insider is, but the reporter should call bullshit. This is a GPT press release.

The Ankler @theankler.com · 1d

The “GPT-5 pass” has gone from curiosity to mandate. Scripts, trailers, pitch decks are all being filtered through an AI model that remembers every draft and forgets what originality looks like. @erikbarmack.bsky.social on Hollywood’s uneasy reset:
theankler.com/p/run-it-thr...

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Hannah Strong @hannahstrong.co.uk · 1d

i said what i said

Hannah Strong @hannahstrong.co.uk · 1d

OH MY GOD WHO CARES IF IT WAS HIS WORST BOX OFFICE OPENING ALL HIS OTHER FILMS WERE HOT FUCKING TRASH

IGN @ign.com · 1d

Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson has issued a statement after The Smashing Machine became the Hollywood star's worst box office opening ever.

'You Can't Control Box Office Results' — Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson Responds to The Smashing Machine's Disappointing Launch

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Hannah Strong @hannahstrong.co.uk · 2d

idk how i'm even surprised at how evil labour are anymore

Rachel Charlton-Dailey @rachelcdailey.bsky.social · 2d

Labour is trying to prove mental health and neurodivergent conditions are over-diagnosed so it can cut DWP benefits further- and they’ve hired the dr who ruined people with ME's lives to do it. Me for @thecanaryuk.bsky.social www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

Labour is trying to prove mental health is over-diagnosed so it can cut DWP benefits further

Wes Streeting's new review into mental health and neurodivergency will be vice chaired by “the most hated doctor in Britain”, Simon Wessely

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Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 2d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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Hannah Strong @hannahstrong.co.uk · 2d

hearing in the group chat the NYFF cut of resurrection was different to the cannes cut....excited to find out what this means for LFF

Hannah Strong @hannahstrong.co.uk · 2d

Been stood in the post office queue for 25 mins and the guy behind me is coughing up a lung without covering his mouth. Some people deserve jail

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Hannah Strong @hannahstrong.co.uk · Jul 23

So cool to see only male critics quoted about the new Lynne Ramsay, which is directly about post partum psychosis

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 2d

“I left my wife, Nicole Kidman, because I was sick of her, Nicole Kidman, needing me to have sex with her, Nicole Kidman” do you hear yourself man

Tweet from Daily Mail Celebrity @DailyMailCeleb
How Nicole Kidman's 'bottomless need for sexual attention' led to the end of her marriage to country music star Keith Urban: Nashville insiders open up to
ALISON BOSHOFF

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Hannah Strong @hannahstrong.co.uk · 2d

you do! in theory grand as no more keenos queuing 2 hours in advance but in reality a pain in the arse

Hannah Strong @hannahstrong.co.uk · 2d

if LFF are accrediting about 1000 press, at £50 a pop, with maybe 20% of those being comped, that means they're making about 41.6k from press accreditations

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Hannah Strong @hannahstrong.co.uk · 2d

then again there were 644 seats available for wake up dead man and they've also all gone........who ARE all these people

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Hannah Strong @hannahstrong.co.uk · 2d

kind of insane to me that two separate lff press screenings for the same film, with a combined total of 510 seats, can be completely sold out online lmao

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Hannah Strong @hannahstrong.co.uk · 3d

Feel so vulnerable doing my japanese duolingo on the packed train bc everyone can see when i fuck up 😔

Hannah Strong @hannahstrong.co.uk · 3d

I'm so glad people are vibing with Resurrection at NYFF after Cannes paid it DIRT

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 4d

I have been saying for a few years now that people really need to take a seriously long look at the center of that venn diagram where the circles are marked "AI Culture" and "Disregard For/Violation Of Consent." The whole "AI Actress" situation is more of why.

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 4d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Hannah Strong @hannahstrong.co.uk · 4d

'I'm Thinking Of Redownloading Hinge' has a similar cadance to 'I'm Thinking Of Ending Things'

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Hannah Strong @hannahstrong.co.uk · 5d

I get it's a ratfuck for indie filmmakers but also. Didn't Saint Laurent pay for his last film

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Hannah Strong @hannahstrong.co.uk · 5d

Didn't Saint Laurent pay for his last film

Cinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.org · 9d

Bilge Ebiri asks Jim Jarmusch a question we've always wondered about when it comes to indie filmmakers: “How do you pay the bills?”

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Hannah Strong @hannahstrong.co.uk · 5d

Yeah I might be ruining my lungs but why must I also get rained on