The Safe Emotional Spaces of Wes Anderson’s Cinema – Part Two

By Sophie Monks Kaufman

Sophie Monks Kaufman continues her deep dive into the neurodivergent coding of Wes Anderson's cinema in this far-reaching long read.

LWLies 100: Special Anniversary Issue – Out now!

By David Jenkins

Party hats and streamers at the ready as we celebrate our bumper birthday edition – with four stunning covers up for grabs.

The enduring joy of Dick Cavett’s Old Hollywood interviews

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Stars including Katherine Hepburn and Gloria Swanson appeared on Dick Cavett's seminal American talk show – a reminder that the televised interview is something of a lost art.

Features

The Beautiful and the Pointless

By Esmé Holden

If sex scenes, or any other type of scene, don’t need to serve the plot, do they need to serve anything at all?

The Safe Emotional Spaces of Wes Anderson’s Cinema – Part Two

By Sophie Monks Kaufman

Sophie Monks Kaufman continues her deep dive into the neurodivergent coding of Wes Anderson's cinema in this far-reaching long read.

Un Amor – first-look review

By David Jenkins

This steamy and giddily uneven rural romance from Spanish filmmaker Isabel Coixet is almost saved by Laia Costa’s committed central performance.

Kalak – first-look review

By David Jenkins

This Greenland-set drama from Danish director Isabella Eklöf, about a husband and father dealing with the trauma of abuse, makes for oppressively grim and only occasionally revelatory viewing.

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Reviews

Reptile review – less “whodunit”, more “who cares?”

By Charles Bramesco

Music video mainstay Grant Singer makes the leap to features with this real estate-based detective thriller, but the results are disappointingly underwhelming.

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Saw X review – America’s most blood-thirsty civil engineer is back

By Hannah Strong

Tobin Bell returns as the twisted killer Jigsaw in this back-to-basics sequel, which sees him exact revenge on a group of medical scammers preying on the terminally ill.

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The Creator review – welcome, benevolent A.I. overlords!

By Leila Latif

Gareth Edwards serves up a visually ambitious story of war between humans and A.I. beings in this heartfelt sci-fi spectacle.

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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar review – Dahl lovingly brought to life as only Anderson knows how

By Hannah Strong

Wes Anderson adapts a Roald Dahl short story with his signature attention to detail and visual panache.

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Brother review – touches on a spectrum of pertinent issues

By Isabelle Gray

Clement Virgo adapts David Chariandy’s 2017 eponymous novel about the complex bond between two Jamaican-Canadian brothers.

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The Old Oak review – trades largely on didacticism and sentimentality

By Mark Asch

In what could be his final film, Ken Loach fixes his gaze on a pub landlord in a town reckoning with a new population of Syrian refugees.

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