A Sporting Chance: Mental health and masculinity at the movies

By Ryan Finnigan

After finding unexpected catharsis in a documentary about snooker legend Ronnie O'Sullivan, Ryan Finnigan reflects on the intersection of mental health and masculinity in the world of sporting cinema.

Three’s Company: Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist on Challengers

By David Jenkins

The trio at the heart of Luca Guadagnino's racy tennis drama tell all about summer camp, short shorts, and their formative Guadagnino experiences.

LWLies 102: the Challengers issue – Out now!

By Little White Lies

Join our fully-illustrated celebration of Luca Guadagnino’s sparkling sports romcom.

Features

How music supervisor became the hottest job in Hollywood

By Carly Mattox

With some insights from the people curating the perfect soundtracks, we take a look at how a relatively new role in filmmaking has become essential to creating a memorable music moment in movies.

A Sporting Chance: Mental health and masculinity at the movies

By Ryan Finnigan

After finding unexpected catharsis in a documentary about snooker legend Ronnie O'Sullivan, Ryan Finnigan reflects on the intersection of mental health and masculinity in the world of sporting cinema.

Rose Glass: ‘Like every director, there’s a god complex somewhere’

By Hannah Strong

The director of the storming after hours classic-in-the-making, Love Lies Bleeding, on the strange worlds of crime and bodybuilding.

Building community through creativity, Queer East Film Festival comes of age

By Cici Peng

Guest curator Cici Peng reflects on the remarkably programming on offer at the fifth edition, offering a mixture of screenings and immersive events that shift ideas of what a festival can be.

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Reviews

The Idea of You review – a sultry unexpectedly entertaining romance

By Hannah Strong

Anne Hathaway plays a 40-year-old single mother who embarks on a torrid love affair with a 24-year-old pop star in Michael Showalter's schmaltzy but not without charm rom-com.

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The Fall Guy review – good stunts, appalling script

By Hannah Strong

In David Leitch's bombastic salute to the Hollywood stunt industry, Ryan Gosling becomes inadvertently embroiled in a nefarious plot while trying to regain the trust of his former lover.

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Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry review – a perfect lead performance

By David Jenkins

A happily single Georgian woman is forced to reconsider her life of solitude when she falls in love in Elene Naveriani's bittersweet romantic dramedy.

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Love Lies Bleeding review – hot, dirty, fast, combustible

By Hannah Strong

Kristen Stewart and Katy O'Brien are on fire as star-crossed lovers who get into a sweaty mess in Rose Glass's lurid '80s throwback thriller.

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Nezouh review – compassionate but needlessly convoluted

By Hamza Shehryar

Soudade Kaadan’s second feature is truistic yet forceful in examining the complexities of human suffering and confinement through a teenage girl stuck in the thick of the Syrian civil war.

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The American Society of Magical Negroes review – an undercooked, frustrating satire

By Hamza Shehryar

Less Harry Potter and more American Fiction, this politically charged satire is more banal than it first seems.

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