Features

Magic and Loss: On the making of Queer

By Hannah Strong

Luca Guadagnino, Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey on bringing the classic, controversial William Burroughs novel kicking and screaming to the big screen.

The 2024 Little White Lies Christmas Guide Guide

By Hannah Strong

Step away from the budget bath set – we've got all your film fan gift ideas covered.

LWLies 106: The Nickel Boys issue – Out now!

By Little White Lies

We celebrate the awesome power of RaMell Ross’s masterful, audacious adaptation of a Pulitzer Prize-winner.

The chameleonic talents of Judi Dench

By Meaghan Steeves

With a screen career dating back to 1961, the groundwork for Dench's most famous roles was laid in some of her early appearances.

How do you make a millennial period piece?

By Pat Greenhough

With the beginning of the noughties now over two decade ago, we're entering a new era for nostalgia – but how do filmmakers crack the code?

How MediCinema brings the magic of movies to hospital patients

By Natasha Jagger

Based inside various hospitals across the UK, MediCinema recognises the power of movies for people undergoing medical treatment.

What is the truth about digital projection?

By Carlos José Jijón Jurado

Dismissed as inferior by dedicated print enthusiasts yet a mainstay of cinemas around the world – we talk to cinema workers about the pros and cons of digital as a format.

Inside the design world of Jean-Luc Godard

By Arijana Zeric

A new exhibition at the ICA explores the role of typography in Jean-Luc Godard's filmography.

The unlikely rise of Irish-language cinema

By Eoin O'Donnell

Despite less than 2% of Ireland speaking the language on a daily basis, more and more filmmakers are showing an interest in how Gaeilge can be incorporated into cinema.

Conner O’Malley is the internet’s most Online filmmaker

By Finlay Spencer

The comic-cum-filmmaker is Mike Leigh for the digital age.

Fantastic Mr. Fox at 15: a celebration of change and difference

By Cat Searcey

In his stop-motion adaptation of Roald Dahl's classic caper, Wes Anderson highlights the necessity of overcoming a fear of change.

Tyler Taormina: ‘The soundtrack is one of the germinating seeds of the work’

By David Jenkins

Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point is a Yuletide classic in the making, and its director has a sincere fondness for the holiday season.

Trauma ripples through time at the London Film Festival

By Erin Mussett

Jesse Eisenberg, Malcolm Washington and Christopher Andrews explored the diverging manifestations of generational trauma at this year's London Film Festival.

The transportive beauty of modern magical realism

By Nadia Maria Oliva

In two of 2024's best films – Bird and On Becoming A Guinea Fowl – reality blurs with fantasy when the world becomes too cruel to stand.

When did theatre become so reliant on film?

By Holly Williams

With screen-to-stage adaptations popping up in the West End every week, what's caused the theatre world to rely so heavily on cinema for source material?

The engrossing ’90s nonsense of Denzel Washington

By Chloe Walker

One of the greatest actors of all time found a compelling niche starring in some of the decade's zaniest high-concept thrillers.

Greek Cinema Now: A Postcard from the Thessaloniki Film Festival

By Rafa Sales Ross

While the likes of Yorgos Lanthimos and Athina Rachel Tsangari have gone travelling the world, what’s going down on the Greek home front?

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