Contributions from Anna McKibbin | Little White Lies

Contributor Anna McKibbin

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Bodies, Babies and Birth Control in April and All We Imagine as Light

by Anna McKibbin

At a time when access to birth con­trol and abor­tion is banned, restrict­ed or under threat around the world, work by Dea Kulum­be­gashvili and Pay­al Kapa­dia high­lights the neces­si­ty of safe options for preg­nant people.
Two young people smiling and using a mobile phone together in a workshop setting.
Festivals

Youth (Homecoming) – first-look review

by Anna McKibbin

The final chap­ter in Wang Bing’s epic tril­o­gy exam­ines love old and new in Chi­na’s Zhili province.
Elderly person wearing helmet, standing in rural setting.
Festivals

Phantosmia – first-look review

by Anna McKibbin

The Fil­ipino mae­stro returns with a four-hour med­i­ta­tive dra­ma about a retired mil­i­tary offi­cer who must con­front his past after receiv­ing an unusu­al med­ical diagnosis.
Two people performing on stage, one woman singing into a microphone and one man holding a microphone, against a backdrop of neon lights.
Review

It Ends With Us review – struggles to grapple with its heavy themes

by Anna McKibbin

Lit­er­ary behe­moth Colleen Hoover makes her cin­e­mat­ic debut, with this mean­der­ing, shal­low exam­i­na­tion of domes­tic abuse.

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In Retrospect
Collage of silhouetted couples in romantic poses, framed by pink heart shapes.

The politics of longing in the cinema of Nicholas Sparks

by Anna McKibbin

With­in the wild­ly suc­cess­ful movies adapt­ed from Sparks’ best­selling nov­els, there’s a for­mu­la for roman­tic success.
Collage featuring 1960s pop culture icons including a girl group and a female singer with long dark hair.
Club LWLies Exclusive

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.