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Festivals

Maria – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Angelina Jolie has never been better as the legendary opera singer Maria Callas, captured in the final week of her life by Pablo Larraín’s elegant biographical drama.
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Review

Sing Sing review – Domingo and Maclin deliver powerhouse performances

by Isaac Feldberg

Set in a correctional facility, Greg Kwedar’s poignant drama offers an exploration of art’s transformative potential.

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In Retrospect
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Why I Love...

Why A Matter of Life and Death is my favourite coming-of-age film

by Bella Madge

Although Powell and Pressburger’s 1946 fantastical war romance might not be the first film that springs to mind as a bildungsroman, it offers a powerful guiding sentiment.
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Review

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice review – squelchy, stripy sequel fun

by Hannah Strong

Burton, Keaton and Ryder turn up the juice and see what shakes loose in a sequel 36 years in the making that manages to deliver plenty of laughs even if it’s all a bit chaotic.

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In Retrospect
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Exhibitions

A new exhibition shows off the invisible processes behind stop motion

by Kambole Campbell

LAIKA’s Frame x Frame exhibition is a compact but detailed deep dive into how the studio approaches the mechanics of the medium.
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When there’s no clear path into the film industry, create your own

by Shelby Cooke

Established during the 2020 pandemic, Film East is a collective of global movie lovers who have come together to write and screen work they’re passionate about. Their founder shares how it all began.
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Festivals

The Creative Nonfiction Film Weekend highlights the infinite possibilities of documentary

by Marina Ashioti

Featuring films by Joanna Arnow and Miryam Charles, the inaugural Creative Nonfiction Film Weekend at London’s Genesis Cinema celebrates all the strange and creative forms that documentary films can take.
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Interviews

Under the Cover: Sarah Madden

by Little White Lies

We go behind the scenes on the cover of LWLies 103: The Blink Twice Issue with Leeds-based illustrator Sarah Madden.
Truth & Movies - A Little White Lies Podcast
Podcast

Blink Twice | Kneecap | The Shining (1980)

On Truth & Movies this week we discuss Blink Twice, Zoe Kravitz’s directorial debut and the subject of the latest issue of LWLies. We follow that up by reviewing the genre-bending Belfast hip-hop odyssey Kneecap and finally, for Film Club, we revisit the film that Kravitz drew inspiration from, Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining.
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Festivals

Since Yesterday: The Untold Story of Scotland’s Girl Bands – first-look review

by Marina Ashioti

Carla J Easton and Blair Young’s informative documentary about Scotland’s unsung musical pioneers strikes an impactful chord.