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Read Widow’s Bay, Furious, and Sterling Point: How TV fell in love with being TV again

How TV fell in love with being TV again

Small Screen by Emma Fraser

widow's bay, furious, sterling point

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Fall Festival First Looks

Toronto Film Festival

Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo – first-look review

by Mark Asch

A corrupt cop chases two serial killers through Tokyo’s underworld in Takashi Miike’s contribution to the Bad Lieutenant series.
Toronto Film Festival

The Debut – first-look review

by Mark Asch

An impressive showcase for Jesse Eisenberg’s musical theatre hobby, but this is Julianne Moore’s movie all the way.
Toronto Film Festival

The Last Photograph – first-look review

by Mark Asch

The passion project that Zack Snyder has spent the last two decades developing is an unforgivably dreadful, turgid slog.
Venice Film Festival

Oasis – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Three teenagers develop unusual methods for exploring their emotions in Jannis Lenz’s drama.
Toronto Film Festival

Misty Green – first-look review

by Mark Asch

Chris Rock’s latest feature leans hard on Rosalind Eleazar’s lead performance as a fading actress to carry a plot that rarely rises to meet her.
Toronto Film Festival

The Face of Horror – first-look review

by Mark Asch

Anna Biller’s long-awaited follow-up to her cult classic The Love Witch adapts the famous Japanese ghost story Yotsuya Kaidan for 14th century England.
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Issue 114: Her Private Hell – Order now!

As long-time Nicolas Winding Refn boosters, having adorned previous covers with 2011’s Drive and 2016's The Neon Demon, we’re proud to be presenting a new issue which picks apart the context of NWR's gorgeous, sui generis oddity. 

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Latest reviews

Review

Resident Evil review – an absolute blast

by David Jenkins

A new high bar has been set for video game adaptations in Zach Cregger’s unabashedly nasty take on the beloved, long-running zombie franchise.

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Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom review – little sheep of horrors

by David Jenkins

A light, amusing run-out for Shaun and co, this time battling a Bigfoot-like monster who’s laying siege to their sleepy English village.

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Barrio Triste review – a haunting requiem for the lost boys

by Katherine McLaughlin

Bad Bunny video director Stillz makes a startling feature debut with this found-footage odyssey through Medellín’s hillside comunas.

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Queen at Sea review – a harrowing vision of the future

by David Jenkins

Lance Hammer’s long-awaited follow-up to Ballast is a harrowing yet vital tale of dementia, family and the limits of consent.

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Pulp: What Do You Do for an Encore? review – a joyous time machine for the faithful

by Emma Fraser

Garth Jennings mines a treasure trove of archive footage in this joyous concert film, proving Pulp’s magic can’t be replicated.

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Bad Apples review – twisted black comedy

by Katherine McLaughlin

Saoirse Ronan stars as a burnt-out teacher in this gleefully unhinged satire on a jolted system that’s as funny as it is unsettling.

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Features

Small Screen

Widow’s Bay, Furious, and Sterling Point: How TV fell in love with being TV again

by Emma Fraser

With TV’s biggest night of the year just behind us, we take a look at a new crop of series embracing the medium for what it does best.
In Conversation

‘I never thought we’d get a series, let alone five’ – Kevin Gillis on The Raccoons at 40

by Simon Bland

With the first ever digital release of The Raccoons’ iconic long lost soundtrack, a ​‘fauxstalgia’ for the Canadian cult kids show has curiously made the UK the series’ strongest fanbase.
In Praise Of

Girlhood in Post-9/11 Cinema: Margaret at 15

by Billie Walker

Anna Paquin’s brooding performance as a teen growing up in a period of grief and heavily-enforced American patriotism is a perfect microcosm of the nation’s tragedy and complicity.
In Praise Of

The Posthumanism of Resident Evil

by Jonah Jeng

The original live-action series made mutation and posthuman possibility its playground, and Milla Jovovich a queer icon of reinvention. Ahead of Zach Cregger’s reboot, we take a closer look at the films’ cultural legacy.
Telluride Film Festival

A Long Winter – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

A short story by Colm Tóibín provides rich material for Andrew Haigh’s melancholy family drama.
What's On

Sarah Maldoror’s Poetry of Resistance

by Haaniyah Awale Angus

A BFI season curated by Annouchka de Andrade on her mother’s work prompts questions about restoration, cultural memory, and the endurance of political art in an era of flattened aesthetics.
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Club LWLies Exclusives

Deep Cuts

Behind the Window Display: Cinema's Desperate Salesmen

by Ariana Martinez

Lacking the confidence to emulate the smooth-talking charlatans of the business world, these salesmen’s entrepreneurial personas end up as artificial as their shopfront displays.
Deep Cuts

Andrzej Wajda’s Cinema of Complicated Defiance at 100

by Juliette Bretan

On the centenary of a Polish cinema giant, we remember the powerful storytelling of Andrzej Wajda through his war and post-war films.
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.
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.
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 F

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.
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