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Read David Cronenberg: 'You don’t want to bore peo­ple with how sad you are'
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​‘You don’t want to bore peo­ple with how sad you are’

Interviews by Hannah Strong

David Cronenberg gets per­son­al about grief

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LWLies Magazine

LWLies 108: The Phoenician Scheme issue: Out now!

by Little White Lies

Pack your bags for a mad­cap, cross-coun­try adven­ture with our issue ded­i­cat­ed to Wes Anderson’s lat­est, The Phoeni­cian Scheme.
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Partnership

The Sensual Elegance of I Am Love

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

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

Introducing… La Dolce Vita: A Celebration of Italian Screen Style

by Little White Lies

This sum­mer we’re invit­ing you to indulge in a slice of the sweet life with Disaronno.

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Review

Hot Milk review – never properly gels

by David Jenkins

Rebec­ca Lenkiewicz adapts Deb­o­rah Levy’s best-sell­ing nov­el, but the result is lacklustre.

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Jurassic World: Rebirth review – struggles to find a justification for its existence

by David Jenkins

There’s just too much that’s wrong and sil­ly and deriv­a­tive about this tired, tired run-out.

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Review

The Shrouds review – precision filmmaking of the highest stripe

by David Jenkins

David Cronenberg’s melan­choly explo­ration of how we retain our con­nec­tion with the dead makes for one of his most beau­ti­ful love stories.

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Review

Chicken Town review – how do you make a granddad selling weed boring?

by Thomas Boyd

Two school­friends join forces with an old man who acci­den­tal­ly start­ed grow­ing weed on his allot­ment in Richard Bracewell’s painful­ly unfun­ny comedy.

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Review

M3gan 2.0 review – a silly sequel shooting for action grandeur

by Kambole Campbell

The bot is back in this wink­ing AI-themed caper movie which goes all out to expand the lore of the M3GAN universe. 

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Review

Sudan, Remember Us review – extremely powerful stuff

by Leila Latif

Hind Meddeb’s doc­u­men­tary poignant­ly cap­tures the activist spir­it of post-rev­o­lu­tion Sudan.

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Interviews

David Cronenberg: 'You don’t want to bore peo­ple with how sad you are'

by Hannah Strong

As The Shrouds final­ly debuts in UK cin­e­mas, the mas­ter of the macabre gets per­son­al about grief.
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This Just In

GriefTech: Death and Technology in The Shrouds, Invention, and Severance

by Jadie Stillwell

Recent sci-fi works in film and tele­vi­sion alike are artic­u­lat­ing new rela­tion­ships between con­tem­po­rary tech­nolo­gies and grief.
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In Praise Of

Basketball: A Cinematic History

by Taylor Burns

Amer­i­ca’s favourite game involv­ing high-stakes hoops has a rich and var­ied pres­ence on screen.
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In Praise Of

In the mood for In The Mood For Love

by Mick Gaw

Wong Kar Wai’s eter­nal sto­ry of yearn­ing in Hong Kong turns 25 and only grows in stature.
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In Praise Of

Brats in Bondage: Lessons in defiance from Tank Girl

by Riley Rogers

Thir­ty years on, the defi­ant desert dweller can teach us how to kick back against dystopia.
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Journeys

Peter Cushing lives forever in Whitstable

by Sarah Morgan

Thir­ty-one years after his death, the hor­ror vet­er­an remains as pop­u­lar as ever, as a very spe­cial trip to his sea­side home revealed.
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