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Truth & Movies: A Little White Lies Podcast
Podcast

How To Train Your Dragon | Lollipop | Ladybird Ladybird (1994)

On Truth & Movies this week, we dis­cuss the live action remake How To Train Your Drag­on, and Daisy-May Hudson’s pow­er­ful fic­tion­al fea­ture debut, Lol­lipop. Final­ly, for film club, we turn our atten­tion to Ken Loach’s Lady­bird Ladybird.
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Review

Protein review – nasty, funny, soulful

by David Jenkins

A gang of small-town drug deal­ing gym rats are set upon by a mur­der­ous stranger in this sat­is­fy­ing Welsh genre piece.

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Interviews

Daisy-May Hudson: ‘I want to make films that crack people’s hearts open’

by Katherine McLaughlin

The ambigu­ous and some­times trag­ic nature of moth­er­hood is the sub­ject of writer/​director Daisy-May Hudson’s force­ful debut, Lollipop.
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Partnership

The Dreamworld Aesthetic of 8½

by Christina Newland

Through its vision­ary cin­e­matog­ra­phy and cos­tume design, Fed­eri­co Fellini’s 1963 film mas­ter­ful­ly blurs the lines between mem­o­ry, real­i­ty and fantasy.
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Review

How To Train Your Dragon review – never quite catches the updraft needed to soar to uncharted heights

by Yasmine Kandil

Dream­works’ first for­ay into the world of live-action remakes is fair­ly unre­mark­able despite occa­sion­al sparks of magic.

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In Retrospect
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Festivals

This Must Be the Place: A Queer East Correspondence

by Qinghan Chen, Lydia Leung

In col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Queer East Film Fes­ti­val, this year’s Emerg­ing Crit­ics cohort offer their respons­es to the film programme.
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Review

Lollipop review – a gut-punching debut

by Emily Maskell

Daisy-May Hudson’s impres­sive fic­tion debut lays bare the bureau­crat­ic cycles a young woman has to face as she attempts to regain cus­tody of her children.

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In Retrospect
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Review

Tornado review – tries a bit too hard to be different

by David Jenkins

John Maclean aims for Ser­gio Leone and Aki­ra Kuro­sawa, but this 18th cen­tu­ry samu­rai west­ern leaves only a super­fi­cial impression.

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In Retrospect
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Partnership

Introducing… La Dolce Vita: A Celebration of Italian Screen Style

by Little White Lies

This sum­mer we’re invit­ing you to indulge in a slice of the sweet life with Disaronno.
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Podcast

Dangerous Animals | Ballerina | Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979)

On Truth & Movies this week, we dis­cuss Dan­ger­ous Ani­mals and Bal­le­ri­na, we speak to activist, pho­tog­ra­ph­er and film­mak­er Mis­an Har­ri­man about Shoot The Peo­ple, a doc­u­men­tary about his work. David speaks to Steven Leckart — the direc­tor of Stans, about the fer­vent fan­dom of Eminem, and final­ly, for film club we revis­it a video nasty with one hell of a shark scene in Zom­bie Flesh Eaters.