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Features

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Festivals

Deadstream – first-look review

by Anton Bitel

Joseph and Vanessa Winter blend horror and comedy in this entertaining haunted house freak-out.
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Home Ents

Discover the surreal provocations of this Japanese anthology comedy

by Anton Bitel

Katsuhito Ishii, Hajime Ishimine and Shunichiro Miki’s offbeat Funky Forest: The First Contact is now available on Blu-ray.
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Look Back

Why is a billionaire in a bat costume considered more prestigious than an immortal bloodsucker?

by Billie Walker

Robert Pattinson’s breakout role in the Twilight franchise has more in common with Bruce Wayne than DC diehards may think.
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In Praise Of

The radically non-binary nature of Sally Potter’s Orlando

by Sam Moore

Thirty years after it was released, the British director’s take on Virginia Woolf’s novel is a powerful study of self-identity.
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Incoming

The end is near in the first trailer for Gaspar Noé’s death drama Vortex

by Charles Bramesco

Dario Argento and Françoise Lebrun play a couple in their lives’ waning days, staring down the great beyond.
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Festivals

Blind Ambition – first-look review

by Jojo Ajisafe

Tagged as the Cool Runnings of wine tasting, this documentary tells the true story of Zimbabwean sommeliers.
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Festivals

Seven glimpses outward from the Glasgow Film Festival 2022

by Anton Bitel

We survey the most exciting titles screening at Glasgow’s première annual celebration of film.
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LWLies Magazine

LWLies 93: The Northman Issue – On sale now!

by Little White Lies

Join us on a longboat to Hell’s gateway with our new issue dedicated to Robert Eggers’ viking revenge saga, The Northman.
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Interviews

Joachim Trier: ‘We need to feel that we have choices which can change our lives’

by Hannah Strong

The writer/​director of The Worst Person in the World ponders love, death and the possibility of a cosmic order to all things.
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Incoming

The first trailer for Pleasure goes deep, deep inside LA’s porn industry

by Charles Bramesco

The debut feature from Ninja Thyberg has already raised eyebrows for its graphically depicted sex scenes.