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The Tokyo International Film Festival has unveiled its full line-up

by Little White Lies

Japan’s biggest film festival returns with a line-up of 110 films for its 37^th edition.

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What’s going on with movie musicals?

by Niamh Dunne

They look bad, they sound bad, and sometimes directors won’t even admit they’ve made a musical at all. What on earth is happening to this once lucrative genre?

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When did British comedy get so twee?

by Katherine Lenahan

As Shaun of the Dead turns 20, we chart the steady decline of humour in mainstream British filmmaking.

Truth & Movies - A Little White Lies Podcast

Francis Ford Copolla Special + San Sebastian

On Truth & Movies this week, it’s a Francis Ford Coppola Special in honour of his long-gestating passion project Megalopolis finally coming to the screen. We hear from David Jenkins about the San Sebastian Film Festival and look at two of Copolla’s previous works, Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Tucker: The Man And His Dream.

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The Outrun review – sensationally directed and performed

by Katherine McLaughlin

Saoirse Ronan stars as a young woman battling alcoholism on the Orkney Isles in Nora Fingscheidt’s adaptation of Amy Liptrott’s bestselling memoir.

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The Teacher review – a wonderful cinematic experience

by Grace Dodd

A Palestinian teacher has to reconcile his commitment to political resistance with his role as father-figure in Farah Nabulsi’s gripping feature debut.

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Saoirse Ronan’s constant coming of age

by Casey Langton

As Saoirse Ronan stars in The Outrun, we examine how her debut as a child star has landed her a continued presence in the coming-of-age genre.

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Megalopolis review – scintillating, absurd and violently original

by David Jenkins

Ignore the haters – this is the kaleidoscopic, enriching, Wellsian vision of a grand old master with nothing to lose.

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On Falling – first-look review

by David Jenkins

The dire lot of a low paid factory worker is the subject of this rigorous if hardly revelatory character study from debut director Laura Carreira.

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Afternoons of Solitude – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Albert Serra’s extraordinary, intense portrait of toreador Andrés Roca Rey is one of the Spanish director’s finest works to date.