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Ryan Gosling: Jacket Man

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Exploring Ryan Gosling’s whirlwind screen romance with iconic jackets

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In Praise Of

Fallen Star: In Praise of The Man Who Fell To Earth

by Payton McCarty-Simas

Nicolas Roeg’s space oddity has only become more relevant in our age of all-consuming media and unbridled corporate greed.
This Just In

Help to save one of the UK’s oldest cinemas

by Luisa Blacker

Oxford cinema Ultimate Picture Palace rallies the local community to secure lease extension amid growing threats to the theatrical experience.

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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Orwell 2+2=5 review – Orwell for Dummies

by David Jenkins

Raoul Peck explores the life and legacy of George Orwell with this largely unedifying, unremarkable essay doc.

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Two Prosecutors review – a quaint variation on a story told many times before

by David Jenkins

Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa returns with this dark tale of Stalinist oppression that is very relevant for these current times.

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Ready or Not 2: Here I Come review – here comes the bride...again

by Hannah Strong

Samara Weaving returns as a besieged bride in Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett’s broadly entertaining horror sequel.

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Dead Man’s Wire review – watchable, but struggles to justify its existence

by Leila Latif

Gus Van Sant’s thriller based on the true story of Tony Kiritsis is compelling but offers little to an already rich subgenre.

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Abode review – a mixed bag selection of home-themed shorts

by Luisa Blacker

A set of five disparate stories on the topic of home make up this underwhelming anthology feature by Irish writer/​director Liam O Mochain.

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The Good Boy review – needs a tighter leash

by Billie Walker

A young hooligan is subject to a twisted kidnapping in Jan Komasa’s lacklustre psychological thriller.

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Features

CPH:DOX

Going Underground: Five picks from CPH:DOX

by Hannah Strong

As below, so above at this year’s Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival.
This Just In

Sheep, grief and beats: The big-hearted DJ Ahmet

by Rebecca Buckley

Georgi M. Unkovski’s feature debut is an offbeat gem about a teenage music enthusiast contending with familial fallout.
This Just In

Help to save one of the UK’s oldest cinemas

by Luisa Blacker

Oxford cinema Ultimate Picture Palace rallies the local community to secure lease extension amid growing threats to the theatrical experience.
In Praise Of

Fallen Star: In Praise of The Man Who Fell To Earth

by Payton McCarty-Simas

Nicolas Roeg’s space oddity has only become more relevant in our age of all-consuming media and unbridled corporate greed.
Acting Up

Michael Shannon's Big Year

by Chloe Walker

In 2016 Michael Shannon appeared in 10 feature films – together they prove why he’s one of the most compelling actors around.
SXSW

Forbidden Fruits – first-look review

by Monica Castillo

A mall-haunting girl gang channel the spirit of Mean Girls and Jawbreaker in Meredith Alloway’s fun take on teen tensions which premiered at SXSW.
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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.
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Deep Cuts

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.
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Deep Cuts

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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