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Features

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Interviews

Guillermo del Toro: ‘The world breaks your heart, but you carry on’

by Hannah Strong

Going face to face writer/​director Guillermo del Toro to find out what it’s like to finally create the film he has always wanted to make.
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Interviews

Yemi Bamiro on the making of Black Is Beautiful: The Kwame Brathwaite Story

by Farah Sadek

The documentary filmmaker breathes life and love into this doc on the trailblazing photographer who helped to define the aesthetics of the ​“Black is Beautiful” movement.
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In Praise Of

The wild, wacky tale of Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit

by Ryan Gaur

Twenty years ago Aardman created a monster. A carrot-gobbling monster that baffled its American investors…
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Journeys

Inside the 18th edition of Toronto's Palestine Film Festival

by Filipa Pajevic

Putting on this year’s festival of Palestinian film in the Canadian cultural hub wasn’t easy, but the stories kept coming.
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BFI London Film Festival

The Memory of Butterflies – first-look review

by Rebecca Buckley

Tatiana Fuentes Sadowski’s remarkable documentary offers a nuanced and innovative take on Western colonial oppression in Latin America.
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In Conversation

Kelly Reichardt: ‘I’m fascinated with people stealing art’

by David Jenkins

Robert Bresson, Warren Oates and Jean-Pierre Melville are just some of the ingredients of The Mastermind, an existential heist movie with a political twist.
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Festivals

Seven Unexpected Gems from the 2025 BFI London Film Festival

by Lucy Peters

Future screenings of these films are absolutely worth snapping up a ticket for, and guaranteed to be unlike anything else you watch this year.
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Opinion

The complex legacy of John Hughes

by Hannah Benson

How the teen movie maestro behind The Breakfast Club inspired a new generation to expand on his vision of growing up on screen.
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Partnership

Exclusive: Harris Dickinson teams up with a charity to launch exclusive tee

All proceeds of the collaboration will go directly to Under One Sky, directly supporting people affected by homelessness.
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LWLies Magazine

LWLies 110: The Frankenstein issue – Out now!

We pay print homage to Guillermo del Toro’s passion project in this hand-illustrated new issue.

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