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Diverse group of characters in futuristic costumes and masks, including a woman with a rabbit-ear headpiece.
Review

Borderlands review – rage-quit worthy video game slop

by Juan Barquin

Eli Roth’s slapdash adaptation of the brash video game series is a joyless slog despite the presence of Cate Blanchett.

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Review

Tuesday review – a magical realist allegory

by Anton Bitel

A mother and her teenage daughter come face to face with death in the form of a strange talking bird in Daina Oniunas-Pusic’s feature debut.

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A man with curly hair wearing a dark jacket speaking on stage before a large screen displaying the word "Skk".
Festivals

SXSW is making its way to London

by Little White Lies

The Austin perennial is making its way across the Atlantic and for a brand new cultural showcase.
Two people performing on stage, one woman singing into a microphone and one man holding a microphone, against a backdrop of neon lights.
Review

It Ends With Us review – struggles to grapple with its heavy themes

by Anna McKibbin

Literary behemoth Colleen Hoover makes her cinematic debut, with this meandering, shallow examination of domestic abuse.

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Acting Up

Cate Blanchett’s battle for the blockbuster

by Victoria Luxford

As Cate Blanchett stars in Borderlands, we survey her various forays into the world of high budget, high profile filmmaking.
A man wearing a white vest stands in a dimly lit street at night, looking pensive.
Review

Sky Peals review – the most moving film about the British highway ever made

by Hannah Strong

A man who feels disconnected from the world around him receives shocking news about his absent father in Moin Hussain’s moving feature debut.

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Illustration of a man's face behind chain-link fence, with birds flying in a blue sky background.
LWLies Magazine

LWLies 104: The Blink Twice issue – Out now!

by Little White Lies

The great Naomi Ackie graces the vibrant cover of our new issue celebrating Zoë Kravitz’s directorial debut.
Two women, one pregnant, sitting near a window and smiling.
Review

Babes review – a true bundle of joy

by Leila Latif

Two lifelong best friends find their relationship tested as one of them navigates single motherhood in Pamela Adlon’s delightful directorial debut.

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Not Movies

Because The Internet: the cursed, perverse realities of Adult Swim infomercials

by Sam Moore

On the late night programming block of an American television channel a series of bleak parody shorts riff on the relationship between the internet and spectatorship.
Green frog puppet and blonde female puppet together.

Navigating the surrealist maze of immigration in Problemista, Limbo and Green Border

by Elif Türkan Erisik

A new crop of films exploring the tension that comes with trying to assimilate in a new country ring true for one writer.