Contributions from Hannah Strong | Little White Lies

Contributor Hannah Strong

Hannah Strong is the Digital Editor of Little White Lies.

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Festivals

The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Joan­na Arnow’s fea­ture debut is a blis­ter­ing­ly fun­ny take on mil­len­ni­al malaise and the search for rec­i­p­ro­cal companionship.
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Festivals

Club Zero – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Jes­si­ca Haus­ner’s dra­ma about a teacher who begins a trou­bling diet club at an elite high school is a poor­ly-judged slog to sit through.
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Festivals

May December – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Todd Haynes’ deli­cious­ly dark melo­dra­ma sees Julianne Moore and Natal­ie Port­man go head-to-head as a house­wife and the woman tasked with play­ing her in a film.
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Festivals

The Zone of Interest – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Jonathan Glaz­er returns with his first film in nine years – an aus­tere, chill­ing depic­tion of a Ger­man fam­i­ly main­tain­ing nor­mal­cy in close prox­im­i­ty to the Holocaust.
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Festivals

How to Have Sex – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

A group of teenage girls embark on a wild post-exam hol­i­day in Mol­ly Man­ning Walk­er’s evoca­tive fea­ture debut.
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Interviews

Davy Chou: ‘This exquisite character helped me to create something more faithful to the truth’

by Hannah Strong

The writer/​director of the mag­i­cal Return to Seoul explains how he drew inspi­ra­tion from a close friend to cre­ate his strik­ing protagonist.
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Review

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3

by Hannah Strong

James Gunn bids the MCU an emo­tion­al farewell in the final out­ing for his rab­ble-rous­ing gang of space pirates.

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In Retrospect
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Interviews

Priya Kansara: ‘I never thought that I’d be a comedic actor’

by Hannah Strong

Priya Kansara talks the epic prep required to play the lead role of a teen stunt­woman-in-the-mak­ing in Nida Man­zoor’s Polite Society.
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Review

How to Blow Up a Pipeline

by Hannah Strong

An ensem­ble of rad­i­cal cli­mate activists attempt to sab­o­tage an oil pipeline in Daniel Gold­haber’s envi­ron­men­tal­ist action-thriller.

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In Retrospect
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Review

Renfield

by Hannah Strong

Nicholas Hoult plays Count Dracula’s long-suf­fer­ing ser­vant in Chris McKay’s under­whelm­ing horror-comedy.

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Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect

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