Contributions from Charles Bramesco | Little White Lies

Contributor Charles Bramesco

Two young people sitting in a field at sunset, with curly hair and casual clothing.
Incoming

Timothée Chalamet chows down in the first Bones and All trailer

by Charles Bramesco

He and Tay­lor Rus­sell play lovestruck teen can­ni­bals in the lat­est from Luca Guadagnino.
A woman with dark hair smiling directly at the camera.
Review

Smile

by Charles Bramesco

Park­er Finn’s debut redeems the Trau­ma Hor­ror movie with fero­cious focus and dement­ed humour.

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Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
Three adults, two men and one woman, standing in a dimly lit room with a brick wall in the background.
Incoming

Answer the door, it’s the first trailer for M. Night Shyamalan’s Knock at the Cabin

by Charles Bramesco

The sus­pense mas­ter’s lat­est is a hor­ror twofer — a home-inva­sion film and an apoc­a­lypse film.
A person in dark clothing seated at a white table in a bright pink room.
Review

Strawberry Mansion

by Charles Bramesco

A dream audi­tor becomes caught up with an age­ing eccen­tric in Ken­tuck­er Aud­ley and Albert Bir­ney’s high­ly imag­i­na­tive feature.

3
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
Young woman in black coat and hat standing on stairs in indoor setting.
Incoming

No one can be trusted in the first trailer for Park Chan-wook’s Decision to Leave

by Charles Bramesco

A cop inves­ti­gat­ing a mur­der in a wind-swept moun­tain town falls for the vic­tim’s wid­ow in the Cannes prize-winner.
Silhouetted figure playing trumpet on stage, with dramatic lighting and shadows.
Festivals

A Jazzman’s Blues – first-look review

by Charles Bramesco

Tyler Per­ry tries his hand at seri­ous-mind­ed film­mak­ing with this over­wrought Deep South melodrama.
An elderly man wearing a hat and a younger woman seated on a park bench.
Incoming

Be a mensch and take a look at the first Armageddon Time trailer, would you?

by Charles Bramesco

Anne Hath­away, Antho­ny Hop­kins, and Jere­my Strong guide one boy’s com­ing-of-age in James Gray’s latest.
Three people on horseback in a rural outdoor setting, wearing period Western-style clothing.
Incoming

Saddle up for Walter Hill’s return to the Western in the Dead for a Dollar trailer

by Charles Bramesco

Willem Dafoe and Christoph Waltz cross paths in pur­suit of a way­ward woman with designs of her own.
Two men sitting at a table, with a large, ominous statue behind them against a blue-tinted background.
Festivals

Guy Maddin is bringing a new augmented-reality project to London Film Festival

by Charles Bramesco

He’s lead­ing today’s wave of announce­ments con­cern­ing the ​‘LFF Expand­ed’ pro­gramme of immer­sive art forms.
Man with dark hair wearing a light-coloured suit, looking serious.
Incoming

Albert Serra wishes you were here in the tropical trailer for Pacifiction

by Charles Bramesco

French Tahi­ti becomes a pic­turesque pur­ga­to­ry for a colo­nial­ist offi­cial in Ser­ra’s panoram­ic latest.