Full of stars: The Straight Story

By Hannah Strong

David Lynch's most unlikely feature examines the pain, regret, love and hope that makes life worth living.

The great biopic brain drain

By Callie Petch

In an age of Walk Hard knock-offs, why are the biopics that continue to play it safe the biggest success stories?

LWLies 106: The Nickel Boys issue – Out now!

By Little White Lies

We celebrate the awesome power of RaMell Ross’s masterful, audacious adaptation of a Pulitzer Prize-winner.

Features

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: A Cure for the Ghosted

By Savina Petkova

After a cruel break-up, a writer finds comfort and relief in Michel Gondry's offbeat 2004 romantic drama.

In Twin Peaks

By Aaron Stewart-Ahn

Screenwriter, filmmaker and David Lynch disciple Aaron Stewart-Ahn reflects on growing up a stone's throw from the setting of Lynch's magnum opus, and what lies at the beating heart of all his creative work.

Full of stars: The Straight Story

By Hannah Strong

David Lynch's most unlikely feature examines the pain, regret, love and hope that makes life worth living.

Nostalgia folding in upon itself: A visit to Wong Kar-wai’s Bangkok

By april forrest lin 林森

A writer reflects on retracing the steps of Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung in Thailand's capital, many years after In The Mood For Love.

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Reviews

To A Land Unknown review – a brilliantly acted tale of moral complexity

By Marina Ashioti

Two Palestinian refugees navigate the seedy underbelly of Athens in Mahdi Fleifel’s compelling fiction feature debut.

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Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy review – pleasant but forgettable

By Hannah Strong

Renée Zellweger dons her big knickers again as the frazzled heroine, this time getting her groove back after her husband's death.

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The People’s Joker – you have to see it to believe it

By Violet Lucca

A glorious, multifarious and modern rethink of the coming of age story as filtered through superhero movies, stand-up and the trans experience.

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Cottontail review – Lily Franky gives another stunning performance

By Josh Slater-Williams

Lily Franky stars in this tender tale about a father and son travelling from Tokyo to the Lake District to scatter his late wife's ashes.

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Heart Eyes review – a gimmicky horror fauxmance

By Billie Walker

Two youngsters come a cropper of a very particular masked maniac in Josh Ruben's dismal horror-romance mash-up.

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Memoir of a Snail – a stop-motion marvel with a dark heart

By David Jenkins

The life of a snail-fixated loner plays out as a series of disasters in this stridently emotional animated feature from Australian filmmaker, Adam Elliot.

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