MOVIE

Below The Clouds – first-look review
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- . September 8, 2025
If one goes into Below the Clouds looking for the dramatic eruptions of similarly themed films such as Fire of Love and Dante’s Peak,

Remake – first-look review | Little White Lies
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- . September 5, 2025
Elsewhere, McElwee films old friends who starred in his earlier films, such as Charleen Swansea, a poetry teacher and friend of

The Smashing Machine – first-look review
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- . September 2, 2025
Of course there have been inevitable (and not entirely unfair) jokes about The Rock running for an Oscar since The

After the Hunt – first-look review
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- . August 30, 2025
Desire is the lifeblood that runs through Luca Guadagnino’s filmography. Usually this takes the form of carnal or romantic need

LWLies 109: A Tilda Swinton Reader – Out now!
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . August 27, 2025
Inside the issue… Chapter One: Romance First Love On Tilda Swinton’s introduction to the world, in Derek Jarman’s Caravaggio. Words by

The extreme vulnerability of Joaquin Phoenix
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . August 24, 2025
Looking at his last four projects, it seems that Phoenix perfected his precise working formula – hyper-ambitious, complex-to-realise films from

Eva Victor: ‘I used the title as a way to reward…
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . August 21, 2025
Eva Victor’s first brush with celebrity came through viral comedy videos, most famously one on Straight Pride, which earned them

My Grandmother Trelotótó review – a world of…
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- . August 18, 2025
Hoping to resurrect her late grandmother, Júlia, Catarina Ruivo combines family archives with rich visuals in a non-fiction film which successfully

Unmoored review – jars its own style
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- . August 15, 2025
A huge sigh releases from deep within Maria (Mirja Turestedt) as she is greeted by a mob of photographers and journalists

Weapons | Freakier Friday | Freaky Friday (2003)
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . August 12, 2025
On Truth & Movies this week, we discuss new releases Weapons and Freakier Friday and revisit Freaky Friday for Film