Contributions from Lena Hanafy | Little White Lies

Contributor Lena Hanafy

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In Praise Of

Why Atonement remains a great modern film about love and war

by Lena Hanafy

Joe Wright’s World War Two-era romance is a beau­ti­ful sto­ry of a young cou­ple torn apart by fate.
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Women In Film

A brief history of women in World War Two movies

by Lena Hanafy

These films show the dif­fer­ent ways women joined the war effort, often away from the home front.
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Review

Dancer

by Lena Hanafy

This sol­id doc tells the the rags to rich­es back to rags back to rich­es tale of bal­let-danc­ing bad boy, Sergei Polunin.

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In Retrospect
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Incoming

Bryan Cranston is starring in a stage adaptation of Network

by Lena Hanafy

He’ll play Howard Beale in a brand new Nation­al The­atre production.
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Incoming

Michael Bay is producing a dystopian thriller about Trump’s America

by Lena Hanafy

Will Lit­tle Amer­i­ca be a case of the blind lead­ing the blind?
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Incoming

Terrence Malick’s World War Two drama is finally taking shape

by Lena Hanafy

Matthias Schoe­naerts and Bruno Ganz are among the cast of the director’s upcom­ing film Radegund.
Trailers

Watch the gory first trailer for teen cannibal horror Raw

by Lena Hanafy

Juila Ducournau’s thrilling first fea­ture offers a fresh take on a stale genre.
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Review

The Young Offenders

by Lena Hanafy

Direc­tor Peter Foott strikes com­e­dy gold with this Irish com­ing-of-age sto­ry, as inno­v­a­tive as it is charming.

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In Retrospect
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A vital new documentary dares to say love your body

by Lena Hanafy

Embrace shows the wide­spread dam­age soci­etal pres­sures are hav­ing on image perception.
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Incoming

The T2 Trainspotting soundtrack has been announced

by Lena Hanafy

Fea­tur­ing a remix of ​‘Lust For Life’ by our old friends The Prodigy.
Trailers

St Vincent has directed a horror movie

by Lena Hanafy

Female-dri­ven anthol­o­gy fea­ture XX is mak­ing its way to Park City for a Sun­dance première.
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Incoming

The Coen brothers make first foray into TV with The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

by Lena Hanafy

Their ambi­tious new project is being described as a ​‘west­ern anthology’.