Contributions from Lewis Gordon | Little White Lies

Contributor Lewis Gordon

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Is Annihilation the first true film of the Anthropocene era?

by Lewis Gordon

Alex Garland’s chill­ing body hor­ror speaks direct­ly to our cur­rent age of eco­log­i­cal crisis.
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Review

The Ballad of Shirley Collins

by Lewis Gordon

An affect­ing and uncom­pli­cat­ed por­trait of a liv­ing icon of the British folk music scene.

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Anticipation
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Enjoyment
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In Retrospect
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Not Movies

How Top of the Lake dissected masculinity to become a modern TV classic

by Lewis Gordon

The first sea­son of Jane Campion’s crime dra­ma offers a pow­er­ful cri­tique of patri­ar­chal values.
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Not Movies

The Handmaid’s Tale contains a chilling environmental warning

by Lewis Gordon

The hit dystopi­an series isn’t just about vio­lence against women.