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Truth & Movies - A Little White Lies Podcast
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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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Review

Casablanca Beats

by Marina Ashioti

A for­mer rap­per sets up a hip-hop pro­gramme for the par­tic­i­pants of his local youth group in Nabil Ayouch’s well-mean­ing drama.

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Anticipation
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In Retrospect
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Review

The Forty-Year-Old Version

by Cheyenne Bart-Stewart

A spiky, lov­able tale about a con­fused play­wright who finds a sec­ond cre­ative wind in hip hop.

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Enjoyment
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In Retrospect
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Film Music

Has John Wick replaced Scarface as hip hop’s favourite film?

by Jack Kavanagh

Keanu Reeves’ no-non­sense anti-hero has struck a chord with a new gen­er­a­tion of rappers.
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Beats, Rhymes and Cinema: King of New York

by Thomas Hobbs

How Abel Ferrara’s bru­tal 1990 gang­ster flick cap­tured the imag­i­na­tion of the hip hop community.
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Review

Sonita

by David Jenkins

Say hel­lo to one of 2016’s most like­able doc­u­men­tary sub­jects, as she over­comes misog­y­ny with angry hip hop.

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Enjoyment
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In Retrospect
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That Darn Movie Show!

Straight Outta Compton video review

by Clarisse Loughrey

Watch F Gary Gray’s con­tro­ver­sial hip-hop biopic get the TDMS! treatment.