Ryan Coogler: ‘I’m more confident in my film language than I am in my English’

By Kambole Campbell

Ryan Coogler reflects on developing a story rooted in personal passions with his grand, IMAX-shot thriller, Sinners.

Spectacles of suffering and fascism in cinema

By Sam Moore

Across the cinema of Pier Paolo Pasolini, Guillermo del Toro and Brady Corbet, the evils of fascism come to light in horrifying detail.

LWLies 107: The Sinners issue – Out now!

By Little White Lies

Tool up for an illustrated deep dive into Sinners and the radical blockbuster cinema of Ryan Coogler.

Features

Inside TGirlsOnFilm: An archive for the future of Trans cinema

By Xoey Fourr

A quick-witted one-woman programming collective offers sisterly guidance for audiences traversing the complicated, misunderstood history of Trans femme narratives in film.

Was Crumb right?

By Soham Gadre

As Terry Zwigoff's documentary about the stubbornly underground comic artist Robert Crumb turns 30, we consider his scepticism regarding the intersection of art and capitalism.

The quiet intensity of Lee Kang Sheng’s gaze

By Terry Nguyen

Through his collaborations with Tsai Ming Liang and new work with Constance Tsang and Yeo Siew Hua, Lee Kang Sheng has created a remarkable body of work.

Psychlo killer: Battlefield Earth 25 years on

By Liam Murphy

Scientology's spectacular flop went down in history for all the wrong reasons. A quarter-century on, what went wrong?

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Reviews

Thunderbolts* review – the best Marvel film in a while

By Fatima Sheriff

There's a lot of superficial fun to be had with this superhero romp, which hasn’t been the case in the MCU for a long while.

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Until Dawn review – an insulting parade of tedium

By Esther Rosenfield

David F Sandberg's tangentially related adaptation of Supermassive Games' horror hit forgets what made its video game source material so great.

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The Accountant 2 review – tonally wild and uneven but oddly sweet

By Hannah Strong

Ben Affleck's autistic hitman with a gift for numbers returns in Gavin O'Connor's mismatched action thriller.

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Julie Keeps Quiet review – a slick, steely piece of storytelling

By David Jenkins

A young tennis star refuses to open about an abusive coach in Leonardo Van Dijl’s impressive feature debut.

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Cloud review – all-time bleakest episode of Only Fools and Horses

By Josh Slater-Williams

Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s latest treads similar thematic territory to his prescient 2001 cyberhorror, through the prism of an e-commerce, vengeance-fuelled thriller.

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The Legend of Ochi review – well-crafted but tame family adventure

By Isaac Feldberg

A shy young girl embarks on a mission to save a mystical creature in Isaiah Saxon's throwback to the days of Amblin greatness.

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