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Features

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Sparks’ Ron and Russell Mael have written another original musical film

by Charles Bramesco

The songwriting legends behind Annette will grace the silver screen again with the mysterious X Crucior.
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The faux feminism of the hagsploitation boom

by Billie Walker

This year’s biggest horror titles have frustratingly pointed to women’s ageing bodies as a source of ridicule and fear.
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Events

Exploring the post-modern pop culture horrors at the heart of British identity

by Arijana Zeric

A new exhibition at Somerset House explores horror through the lens of British political and social upheaval.
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Interviews

Sebastián Lelio: ‘We need better stories if we want to have better societies’

by Marina Ashioti

The Chilean director on the very contemporary political and philosophical questions at the core of literary period piece, The Wonder.
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LWLies Magazine

LWLies 96: The Glass Onion issue – Out now!

by Little White Lies

We hop on a deluxe yacht to visit Rian Johnson’s fiendishly entertaining, star-spangled nu-dunnit.
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Two Tilda Swintons enter Johanna Hogg’s haunted house in the Eternal Daughter trailer

by Charles Bramesco

Swinton plays a Hogg stand-in as well as her mother in the atmospheric not-quite-horror picture.
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Girls and Guns – the ’90s films that shaped the ‘frat boy generation’

by Emmeline Banks

The likes of American Pie and Fight Club have been blamed for warping a generation’s perception of sex and violence. How does that claim hold up?
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Home Ents

30 years on, Ghostwatch is still as haunting as ever

by Anton Bitel

The BBC pulled off an ingenious prank with their 1992 paranormal investigation, which has proven an inspiration for the found footage boom.
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In Praise Of

Why I love Angela Lansbury’s performance in The Manchurian Candidate

by Johnny Restall

Lansbury sparkles as the machiavellian Eleanor Iselin in John Frankenheimer’s classic political neo-noir.
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Live your Wes Anderson-inspired fantasy at an east London hotel

by Hannah Strong

A pop-up at One Hundred Shoreditch celebrates the world of Accidentally Wes Anderson with a very special hotel room and immersive exhibition.