Contributions from Leigh Singer | Little White Lies

Contributor Leigh Singer

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Interviews

Griffin Dunne: ‘Scorsese’s energy and enthusiasm was infectious’

by Leigh Singer

The star of Mar­tin Scors­ese’s down and dirty 1985 runaround reflects on the strange jour­ney of get­ting After Hours made and how Spiel­berg and De Pal­ma influ­enced the film’s ending.
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Review

Val

by Leigh Singer

Part play­ful scrap book, part poignant con­fes­sion­al, this doc­u­men­tary self-por­trait reveals plen­ty about its subject.

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In Retrospect
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Video

Watch: The Lion King – original vs remake

by Leigh Singer

Our Remake/​Remodel series con­tin­ues with a break­down of Disney’s most suc­cess­ful ​“live-action” update yet.
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Video

Watch: Yojimbo vs A Fistful of Dollars

by Leigh Singer

Our lat­est Remake/​Remodel video essay analy­ses the impact of Aki­ra Kurosawa’s samu­rai epic on Ser­gio Leone’s Spaghet­ti western.
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Video

Watch: Ocean’s 11 vs Ocean’s Eleven

by Leigh Singer

Com­par­ing the clas­sic Rat Pack heist caper with Steven Soderbergh’s equal­ly star-stud­ded ear­ly noughties update.
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Video

Watch: The Movie GIFs That Keep On Giving

by Leigh Singer

In a new video essay, Leigh Singer explores a curi­ous mod­ern phenomenon…
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Video

Alain Delon vs Matt Damon – Who’s the perfect Tom Ripley?

by Leigh Singer

A side-by-side analy­sis of Pur­ple Noon and The Tal­ent­ed Mr Rip­ley, as adapt­ed from Patri­cia Highsmith’s 1955 novel.
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Video

Suspiria vs Suspiria – Argento’s original vs Guadagnino’s remake

by Leigh Singer

The lat­est video in our Remake/​Remodel series com­pares the clas­sic hor­ror with its mod­ern update.
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Disability in Film

Is The Peanut Butter Falcon a watershed moment for on-screen disability?

by Leigh Singer

The film’s direc­tors and star Zack Gottsagen, who has Down syn­drome, dis­cuss over­com­ing indus­try stigma.
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Video

Watch: A Star Is Born – Judy Garland vs Lady Gaga

by Leigh Singer

A side-by-side look at two very dif­fer­ent takes on a clas­sic Hol­ly­wood cau­tion­ary tale.
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Video

Watch: A side-by-side analysis of Infernal Affairs and The Departed

by Leigh Singer

In the lat­est Remake/​Remodel, Leigh Singer inter­ro­gates Mar­tin Scorsese’s remake of a Hong Kong crime classic.
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Video

Ghostbusters vs Ghostbusters – Ivan Reitman’s original vs Paul Feig’s reboot

by Leigh Singer

A side-by-side look at the clas­sic 1984 com­e­dy and its ​“she-boot” coun­ter­part from 2016.