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Nurse Ratched is the perfect movie villain – and the perfect stereotype

By Kristina Murkett

An origin story is well overdue for one of popular culture’s most iconic and problematic characters.

Why does the white boy always get the girl in Netflix rom-coms?

By Anugraha Sundaravelu

The sequels to The Kissing Booth and To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before both feature PoC love interests, but they’re merely tokenistic distractions.

An oral history of Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure

By Simon Bland

The inside story of how a goofy script by two unknown screenwriters became a beloved cult hit.

Could you design a classic Rebecca film poster?

By Little White Lies

Enter our creative brief, inspired by Ben Wheatley’s latest, and you could win a signed first edition of Daphne du Maurier’s novel.

On International Cinema Day, support a movie theatre you love

By Adam Woodward

On Saturday 12 September, join in celebrating independent cinemas everywhere.

LWLies 86: The Shirley Issue – On Sale Now!

By Hannah Strong

Our latest issue is a tribute to the beautiful, unnerving world of Josephine Decker’s biopic that isn’t a biopic.

Blood, Hair and Pain: Ginger Snaps at 20

By Anna Bogutskaya

The director, screenwriter and stars of the cult Canadian horror reflect on its legacy as a morbid love letter to teenage girls everywhere.

Denis Villeneuve’s Dune gets a spicy first trailer

By Charles Bramesco

Timothée! Zendaya! Oscar Isaac! Giant sand worms! Something for everyone!

10 years on, Denis Villeneuve’s Incendies still haunts me

By Lucas Oakeley

This searing drama forced me to confront the uncomfortable reality of my relatively privileged upbringing in the Middle East.

The Academy Awards have set new diversity standards, but to what end?

By Charles Bramesco

It’s difficult to think of a film that wouldn’t clear this low bar.

Beginnings: Charlie Chaplin’s London

By Adam Scovell

Retracing the comic master’s formative years across the English capital’s southern boroughs.

Ben Wheatley courts intrigue with the first Rebecca trailer

By Charles Bramesco

Tangled passions ensnare Lily James and Armie Hammer in this update of Daphne du Maurier’s famed novel.

Hulu’s PEN15 continues to capture the joy and horror of being 13

By Emma Fraser

Anna Konkle and Maya Erskine play versions of their teenage selves in the hit growing-pains “traumedy”.

Discover this era-spanning yakuza epic and its contemporary remake

By Anton Bitel

Kinji Fukasaku’s Graveyard of Honor and Takashi Miike’s 2002 update redefined the postwar Japanese gangster flick.

David Squires on… Understanding Tenet

By Little White Lies

Confused by Christopher Nolan’s time-bending thriller? Our resident cartoonist has got you covered.

Why I love Alain Delon’s performance in Rocco and his Brothers

By Sophie Monks Kaufman

The French screen idol is at his most open and vulnerable in Luchino Visconti’s 1960 crime drama.

David Fincher returns to cinemas with first images from Mank

By Charles Bramesco

His first feature in six years chronicles the tensions between Orson Welles and Herman J Mankiewicz on Citizen Kane.

The search for truth in Christopher Nolan’s Memento

By Daniel Broadley

Guy Pearce’s amnesia-suffering, tattoo-covered protagonist is cinema’s ultimate unreliable narrator.

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