100 films to look forward to in 2025 – part one
Santa might have flown back to the North Pole for another year, but we’re still handing out the presents at LWLies. As is annual tradition, here’s our list of 100 films to (hopefully!) look forward to, from some big names, new faces and returning champs. We’ll be back with Part Two tomorrow – let us know what you’re excited about in 2025 More...
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl review – an Aardman banger
For a certain demographic of society – particular in Great Britain – Feathers McGraw is up there with Norman Bates and Max Cady on the Greatest Cinematic Villains of All Time list. His notoriety is all the More...
The 30 best films of 2024
At Little White Lies, we don’t believe there’s such a thing as a “bad year” for cinema in terms of the work produced. Working under the pressure of an industry still recovering from political and social More...
The Order review – sadly prescient true life ’80s cop thriller
Robert Jay Mathews was the founder of a white supremacist organisation that lends its name to Justin Kurzel’s cop procedural, The Order. In a 1984 letter, Mathews explained his desire to “quit being the hunted More...
What makes Bill Skarsgård so monstrous?
In F. W. Murnau’s original 1922 film Nosferatu, Max Schreck was so terrifying as Count Orlok that an urban legend grew suggesting he was in fact a real monster. While Schreck’s passing in 1936 put paid to More...
How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies review – a Thai charmer
There’s an inevitability that whenever a non-English-language film proves a notable crossover hit internationally, talk of a Hollywood redo will soon arise. In recent years, an American-set remake of horror More...
10 films that deserve the Muppet Christmas Carol treatment
One of the best things about being an adult at Christmas, beyond the fact no-one can shout at you for drinking in the morning, is making your own traditions. One of mine, perhaps I think my most cherished one, More...
Nosferatu review – an earthy, erotic masterwork
Robert Eggers’ preoccupation with history has been portrayed in some corners as an excessive fussiness, a persnickety need for granular accuracy that’s cast him as the de facto foil to the DGAF anachronist More...
Better Man review – chimply irresistible
If you had asked me at the top end of 2024 how excited I felt about seeing a biopic of Robbie Williams directed by the bloke who made The Greatest Showman, the answer would have been a swift “Not at all”. More...
Nickel Boys review – a miracle of a movie
At one point in Nickel Boys, Elwood, a young Black boy in Civil Rights-era Florida, glimpses Martin Luther King Jr. in front of a supermarket and takes off, running across the middle of the street to greet him. Turner, More...
