Little White Lies

04/08/2025

Our 108th issue spotted across some of our favourite stockists!

You can find our magazine stocked everywhere from film museums in the Netherlands, newsagents in Lower Manhattan, kiosks in Paris to concept stores in Manchester 🛍️

🔗 Explore our global list of stockists at lwlies.com/stockists

03/08/2025

This week on Truth & Movies, we discuss Bring Her Back and speak to its delightful directors Danny and Michael Philippou, the spoof returns in The Naked Gun, and finally, for film club we revisit the original Naked Gun

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01/08/2025

Bangers only in review this week!

Liam Neeson is fully locked into the sweet spot between unearned confidence and bone-deep idiocy where comedy flourishes, and as his femme fatale/right-hand gal, a resurgent Pamela Anderson reveals unforeseen reserves of brilliant comic acumen…

…Between the cute gags in Claude Barras’ latest animation, there’s also an interest in observation through a contentedness with noticing the patterns of the natural world…

…And the Philippou brothers’ follow-up to their A24 box office smash hit (Talk To Me) evokes classic J‑horror through its creeping dread, water symbolism and visuals of circles.

🔗 Read our critics’ full takes on this week’s releases at lwlies.com/reviews

27/07/2025

On Truth & Movies this week, we discuss The Fanastic Four: First Steps and spoke to its star Ralph Ineson. We then review the latest Hong Sang-Soo film, What Does That Nature Say To You

Finally, for film club, revisit The Green Ray

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24/07/2025

Through its use of colour, costume and décor, Luca Guadagnino’s sumptuous drama turns stylish interiors and silent glances into metaphors for longing

Having developed the film with Guadagnino for 11 years, Tilda Swinton gives herself over to a sexual awakening that leaves her character, Emma,…

23/07/2025

Michelangelo Antonioni’s Milanese marital drama uses sleek, geometric compositions to reflect the modernist couple and the city at its centre

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

22/07/2025

Paolo Sorrentino’s Fellini-esque journey through modern-day Rome transforms the Eternal City into a living, breathing character of unparalleled grandeur

N ot once during Paolo Sorrentino’s sprawling urban symphony, The Great Beauty , does Jep Gambardella (Toni Servillo) ever hop in a car. The Great Beauty…

21/07/2025

Through its visionary cinematography and costume design, Federico Fellini’s 1963 film masterfully blurs the lines between memory, reality and fantasy

For the insouciant elegance of Guido, a trim black suit is the uniform of choice. Guido dons Neapolitan-style tailoring in the form of this silk suit –…

20/07/2025

In review this week:

The wildcard energy that made Tim Robinson’s sketch series a cult classic is threaded through Andrew DeYoung’s offbeat comedy…

…Caleb Landry Jones, Harry Melling and Arinzé Kene’s performances provide strong emotional heft to Athina Rachel Tsangari’s latest…

…“Rihanna is Smurfette”…

…And the legacy sequel to Jim Gillespie’s 1997 slasher is fatally cramped by the limitations of the IP sandbox it’s playing in.

🔗 Read our critics’ full takes on this week’s releases at lwlies.com/reviews

15/07/2025

From surreal odysseys to sexual awakenings, the swimming pool has long been depicted as a site of transformation, nostalgia and fluid identity.

🏊 Long Hot Summer: The Mythos of the Pool on Screen – read the full article on lwlies.com

✍️ Eleanor Brady

15/07/2025

In conversation with the industrious and passionate Greek filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari, who speaks to us about her subtly apocalyptic new work, Harvest

Read the full interview on lwlies.com or grab a copy of our latest issue via our online shop (link in bio)

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13/07/2025

On Truth & Movies this week, we discuss James Gunn’s Superman reboot and talk to Alex Ross Perry about his experimental music documentary Pavements

Finally, for film club, we revisit Superman’s first on-screen appearance in 1951’s Superman And The Mole Men

Joining host are and AA Dowd

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