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Read Mother Mary review – beautiful and bewitching

Mother Mary

Review by Hannah Strong

a strange, haunting affair

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Interviews

Mark Jenkin: ‘I like looking backwards in order to move forwards’

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

Fish-gutting lessons, seasickness and Cornish notions of home play into the writer/director’s superlative third feature.
Scene Report

Preliminary Visions of a Girl-Online

by Namah

Dana Dawud’s extremely online (but IRL) screening series, Open Secret, is all access, but little revelation. 

LWLies 112: The Father Mother Sister Brother issue – Out now!

We deliver a fully-illustrated salute to Jim Jarmusch’s Golden Lion-winning triptych film about the pain and joy of having parents. 

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Mother Mary review – beautiful and bewitching

by Hannah Strong

David Lowery’s chamber piece about a pop star and her erstwhile costume designer is a strange, haunting affair.

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Exit 8 review – one of the better translations of video game mechanics to cinema

by Josh Slater-Williams

A popular 2023 video game receives a big screen transformation thanks to filmmaker Genki Kawamura.

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Olivia Vinall in Leonora In The Morning Light
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Leonora in the Morning Light review – too many blank patches on the canvas

by Kaeah Sen

The tumultuous life story of Surrealist painter Leonora Carrington is somewhat explored in this gorgeously-shot biopic.

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Michael review – legacy management 101

by David Jenkins

This squeaky-clean, PR-driven chronicle of Michael Jackson’s life up to the release of the 1987 album Bad reaffirms his god-like genius and plays the hits.

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Ultras review – shoots and scores

by Katherine McLaughlin

Ragnhild Ekner explores the mega phenomenon of football fan culture in this thoughtfully-crafted, passionate documentary.

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Rose of Nevada review – a gorgeous Cornish time-travel yarn

by Rafa Sales Ross

Mark Jenkin’s third feature film, starring George MacKay and Callum Turner as fishermen whose lives go awry, is a moving tale of personal versus communal sacrifice.

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Features

Interviews

Mark Jenkin: ‘I like looking backwards in order to move forwards’

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

Fish-gutting lessons, seasickness and Cornish notions of home play into the writer/director’s superlative third feature.
Scene Report

Preliminary Visions of a Girl-Online

by Namah

Dana Dawud’s extremely online (but IRL) screening series, Open Secret, is all access, but little revelation. 
Acting Up

Rediscovering Singapore's first action heroine

by Suyin Haynes

The crime-fighting, gun-toting lead of 1978’s They Call Her… Cleopatra Wong was nearly lost forever. A new restoration celebrates her overlooked history. 
Scene Report

The surprising rhythms of a 24-hour cinema

by Billie Walker

For 24 hours only Double Wonderful opened a non-stop cinema where patrons could come and go at their leisure. It was an eye-opening abandonment of cinema norms.
Small Screen

How Beef shines a light on the pitfalls of reproductive healthcare

by Emily Maskell

The second season of A24 and Netflix’s highly acclaimed drama eloquently demonstrates how healthcare inequality can derail your life.
Cannes Film Festival

Cannes 2026 announces its sidebar line-ups

by Hannah Strong

The full programme for this year’s festival is complete with programme announcements from Director’s Fortnight, Critic’s Week and L’Acid.
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Club LWLies Exclusives

Deep Cuts

Celebrating the Splendour, Anarchy and Creative Genius of Sandy Powell

by Desirae Embree

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s reimagining of James Whale’s 1935 classic The Bride of Frankenstein marks 40 years in the singular career of costume designer Sandy Powell.
Two men in black tops against pastel pink and blue cloudy background with scattered geometric shapes and symbols.
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Playground Love: How Air scored The Virgin Suicides

by Paul Weedon

The French electronic duo were the musical backbone behind Sofia Coppola’s startling debut. A 25th anniversary reissue saw them reconstructing much of their work from scratch.
Illustration depicting a close-up of a fantasy warrior figure with a face painted in bold, vibrant colours of blue, yellow, and red. The figure wears ornate, armoured clothing.
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Life is a B-Movie: Joe D’Amato’s Bizarre Prophecy of 2025

by Mila Fielker

A dystopian retro-future of telepathic mutants, gladiators and fascists – does Joe D’Amato’s vision of 2025 show any resemblance to our current reality?
Deep Cuts

The New Bootlegs: Open Matte Films & Unofficial Scans

by Lexie Corbett

The unofficial, often open matte scans of these films preserve a tactile history of cinema in its imperfect totality.
Deep Cuts

When pop stars become auteurs

by Anna McKibbin

The visual album is a key, genre-defying vessel for pop music titans transferring the symbolic power of their music to image-making.
Deep Cuts

The complicated legacy of heavy metal in cinema

by Sarah Cleary

Metal is often given short shrift at the movies, but a handful of great auteurs have used the genre and its subculture to brilliant effect.
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