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Features

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Interviews

‘It was hard to hit me in the face with the steak’ – Jon Heder on 20 years of Napoleon Dynamite

by Simon Bland

Two decades on from an unlike­ly cul­tur­al phe­nom­e­non, the star of Jarred Hes­s’s lo-fi cult clas­sic talks Moon Boots, Jamiro­quai and doing his own stunts.
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At the Dream Emulator Film Club, the boundaries between video games and cinema no longer exist

by Barney Nuttall

Meet­ing month­ly at Dal­ston’s Rio Cin­e­ma, this new project shows exper­i­men­tal visu­al art that defies clas­si­cal categorisation.
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Interviews

Iain Softley: ‘I had this idea in my mind, “What would the story be if these weren’t The Beatles?”’

by Michael Leader

As Sam Mendes gears up to make his behe­moth Bea­t­les biopic, the direc­tor of 1994 ear­ly-Bea­t­les dra­ma Back­beat reflects on the sto­ry of Stu­art Sut­cliffe – the Bea­t­le who wasn’t.
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One Life and British cinema’s nostalgia for World War Two

by Clotilde Chinnici

The past is unde­ni­ably present in con­tem­po­rary rep­re­sen­ta­tions of the British war effort, rep­re­sent­ing an obses­sion with for­mer mil­i­tary glo­ry and world influence.
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Interviews

Under the Cover: Tom Humberstone

by Little White Lies

We go behind the scenes on the cov­er of LWLies 103: The Kinds of Kind­ness Issue with com­ic artist and illus­tra­tor Tom Humberstone.
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LWLies Magazine

LWLies 103: The Kinds of Kindness issue – Out now!

by Little White Lies

Yor­gos Lan­thi­mos is up to his old tricks with this delight­ful­ly mean alle­gor­i­cal anthology.
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Interviews

Jane Schoenbrun: ‘I think of film as a medium that is going to disappear eventually’

by Esmé Holden

The film­mak­er reflects on her sopho­more fea­ture film, I Saw the TV Glow, in which two teenage out­siders find com­fort in a mys­te­ri­ous tele­vi­sion series.
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In Praise Of

Pills, thrills and bellyaches: the lost underworld of Human Traffic

by Billie Walker

Twen­ty five years on from its release, the rave cul­ture of Justin Ker­ri­g­an’s ode to doomed youth is all but lost.
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Long Read

Wax Entertainment: How Invada Records pioneered a vinyl soundtrack boom

by Paul Weedon

Ini­tial­ly known for its exper­i­men­tal out­put, Bris­tol-based Inva­da Records has spent the last decade and a half carv­ing a rep­u­ta­tion for its care­ful­ly curat­ed ros­ter of film soundtracks.
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Festivals

Dancing and different ways of seeing at Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival

by Xuanlin Tham

In the Scot­tish bor­ders, this bold inde­pen­dent film fes­ti­val cham­pi­ons new ways of see­ing, with a 2024 focus on the work of Pales­tin­ian artist Noor Abed.