Contributions from Katherine McLaughlin | Little White Lies

Contributor Katherine McLaughlin

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Io Capitano review – disassociation turned surreal fantasy

by Katherine McLaughlin

Two Senegalese teenagers embark on a perilous journey to Europe in Matteo Garrone’s affecting drama about the migrant crisis.

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3
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The Last Year of Darkness review – a wild ride through Chengdu’s queer scene

by Katherine McLaughlin

Ben Mullinkosson captures the agony and the ecstasy of Chinese club kids in this ode to one of Chengdu’s underground queer spaces.

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4
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Eileen review – an impressively crafted noir

by Katherine McLaughlin

A shy young prison guard develops an infatuation with her workplace’s new psychiatrist in William Oldroyd’s twisty new thriller.

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4
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Talk to Me review – visually and emotionally brutal horror

by Katherine McLaughlin

YouTube duo Michael and Danny Philippou make the ambitious leap to feature filmmaking with a thoroughly disturbing, uncompromising horror.

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4
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Rodeo

by Katherine McLaughlin

A young French-Guadeloupian woman enters the male-dominated world of moto cross biking in Lola Quivoron’s daring debut feature.

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Enjoyment
3
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In Praise Of

Tall, Dark and Gruesome: a celebration of Christopher Lee’s Count Dracula

by Katherine McLaughlin

On the centenary of a horror icon, we celebrate Christopher Lee’s indelible contribution to a vampiric legend.
Review

A Banquet

by Katherine McLaughlin

Ruth Paxton’s debut feature conveys the anxieties and misconceptions surrounding disordered eating through psychological horror.

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Monsters and Men

by Katherine McLaughlin

John David Washington is a cop struggling to come to terms with systematic racism in Reinaldo Marcus Green’s debut feature.

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3
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Ghost Stories

by Katherine McLaughlin

Martin Freeman heads up this unnerving horror compendium from writer/​directors Andy Nyman and Jeremy Dyson.

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Victoria & Abdul

by Katherine McLaughlin

Judi Dench reprises her role as Queen Victoria in this touching study of later-life depression.

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Enjoyment
3
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