Posts by Christina Newland

Queer Times: How Thessaloniki International Doc Festival are celebrating LGBTQ+ Cinema

By Christina Newland

A report from the 2024 TIDF sees art, empathy, a bit of violence and a hopeful vision for the future of Greek cinema.

Tarsem Singh: ‘I went bankrupt making The Fall, and I’d go bankrupt another ten times to do it’

By Christina Newland

The visionary Indian director behind modern cult favourite The Fall reflects on the film finding its audience after 17 years, and the production of Dear Jassi – his first feature film in almost a decade.

Martin Scorsese: ‘What is it about us as human beings that allows for us to be so compartmentalised?’

By Christina Newland

Speaking at the global press conference for Killers of the Flower Moon, Martin Scorsese provides insights into his research process and use of music, as well as discovering Lily Gladstone via Kelly Reichardt's Certain Women.

Franco Nero Strikes Again

By Christina Newland

The screen icon talks Tarantino, the delayed Django Lives!, and the time he got naked for John Huston.

Muscle is a fearless exercise in deconstructing on-screen masculinity

By Christina Newland

Gerard Johnson’s genre-defying latest tosses class, sexuality and body image into a pungent stew.

My Comfort Blanket Movie: Goodfellas

By Christina Newland

Christina Newland takes solace in Martin Scorsese’s brutally violent, blackly comic mob classic.

De Niro and Pacino on The Irishman and the gangsterization of US politics

By Christina Newland

Face to face with two of the greatest actors of their generation, together in Martin Scorsese’s magisterial mob drama.

The Vietnam War movie they wanted you to forget

By Christina Newland

Ignored by the media and undermined by Nixon, Winter Soldier remains a vital snapshot of the counterculture era.

Have film audiences fallen out of love with the western?

By Christina Newland

The poor box office performance of The Sisters Brothers and films like it suggests interest in this quintessential American film genre is on the wane.

Cradle of Champions

By Christina Newland

Community spirit and the sense of personal empowerment found in amateur boxing is the subject of this moving doc.

review LWLies Recommends

The true story of Montgomery Clift, as told by his youngest nephew

By Christina Newland

Making Montgomery Clift explodes the myths surrounding the Hollywood star and queer icon.

Robert Redford: ‘I’ve always loved the idea of the outlaw’

By Christina Newland

They say you should never meet your heroes, but that’s just wrong. LWLies receives a valedictory audience with Hollywood royalty.

Yardie

By Christina Newland

Idris Elba makes his directorial debut with a partial adaptation of Victor Headley’s cult 1992 novel.

review

A Prayer Before Dawn

By Christina Newland

Joe Cole plays a boxer who gets banged up abroad in this harrowing and poetic prison drama.

review LWLies Recommends

Jeune Femme

By Christina Newland

Laetitia Dosch delivers a star turn in this charming Parisian drama from writer/director Léonor Serraille.

review LWLies Recommends

Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story

By Christina Newland

The success and scandal of one of cinema’s first glamour girls is laid bare in this vivid documentary portrait.

review LWLies Recommends

A brief history of female masturbation in the movies

By Christina Newland

Inspired by The Shape of Water, we survey the various ways female self-pleasure has been portrayed.

In praise of Daisies

By Christina Newland

Don’t miss this explosion of feminist merry-making in Věra Chytilová’s 1966 classic, screening with ICA and MUBI.

Strong Island

By Christina Newland

Filmmaker Yance Ford provides an impassioned and highly personal critique of the US judicial system in this vital doc.

review LWLies Recommends

How feminist programming is forging a progressive future for women in cinema

By Christina Newland

At Bristol’s Cinema Rediscovered, female-driven stories came to the fore in thrilling fashion.

Five things to see at Cinema Rediscovered 2017

By Christina Newland

Jean-Luc Godard’s radical ’60s comedy La Chinoise is among the highlights of this year’s festival.

River’s Edge and the troubling psychosis of ’80s youth

By Christina Newland

This Keanu Reeves-starring drama is a poignant tale of teenage apathy.

Ian McShane: ‘Masculinity has become more complicated over the last 20 years’

By Christina Newland

The veteran screen star talks Jawbone, bad superhero movies and how ‘tough guy’ acting has evolved.

Clash

By Christina Newland

Egyptian director Mohamed Diab counts the cost of the Tahrir Square protests in this compelling human drama.

review LWLies Recommends

Christine

By Christina Newland

Rebecca Hall brings her A-game in this tragic, quietly stunning portrait of female depression.

review LWLies Recommends

What will Hollywood cinema look like in the Trump era?

By Christina Newland

Movies have always reflected social attitudes and trends – and that could prove especially vital over the next four years.

La La Land

By Christina Newland

Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling are a match made in old-school movie heaven in this dazzling musical.

review LWLies Recommends

The Clan

By Christina Newland

The usually reliable Pablo Trapero stutters with this inert crime thriller about the infamous Puccio family.

review

Why 2012 is the greatest blockbuster of the 21st century

By Christina Newland

Laying siege to Earth’s most beloved locations, this is Roland Emmerich’s most perfect replica of the disaster flicks of the 1970s.

The Keeping Room

By Christina Newland

Brit Marling leads a band of sisters in arms in this gritty American Civil War drama.

review

How Shane captured the shifting mood of postwar America

By Christina Newland

Alan Ladd’s mysterious stranger in town fundamentally changed the way audiences believed in heroes.

How cinema is challenging popular representations of the gypsy community

By Christina Newland

A new screening programme asks vital questions about how Britain’s travellers are depicted on screen.

Loving

By Christina Newland

Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton bring a quiet tenderness to this understated tale of racial prejudice in the Deep South.

review LWLies Recommends

How boxing movies put black heroes in the frame

By Christina Newland

From Body and Soul to Creed, the sports movie has a rich tradition of raising awareness around issues of class and race.

Do movies turn women into masochists?

By Christina Newland

Is it possible for women to love movies which promote a regressive, misogynistic worldview?

Little White Lies Logo

About Little White Lies

Little White Lies was established in 2005 as a bi-monthly print magazine committed to championing great movies and the talented people who make them. Combining cutting-edge design, illustration and journalism, we’ve been described as being “at the vanguard of the independent publishing movement.” Our reviews feature a unique tripartite ranking system that captures the different aspects of the movie-going experience. We believe in Truth & Movies.

Editorial

Design