Mufasa: The Lion King review – let down by weak script and songs
“Everything the light touches” is an apt descriptor for the features, shorts and TV shows made by Barry Jenkins in collaboration with his trusty cinematographer James Laxton during the first little portion of the 21st century. In films such as Moonlight and If Beale Street Could Talk, and his extraordinary TV saga, The Underground Railroad, he More...
National Anthem review – maintains a bold sense of hopefulness
In recent years, the classic western has undergone a period of reinvention. No longer is it the silhouette of macho masculinity framed against the American Frontier’s wide open plains; instead, updated cowboy More...
Kraven the Hunter review – put it out of its misery
In the 10 short months since I wrote my Madame Web review pondering the poisoned chalice of a superhero role in 2024, both Robert Downey Jr and Chris Evans – the pillars upon which the MCU was built – have More...
Magic and Loss: On the making of Queer
While it was I who wrote ‘Junky’, I felt that I was being written in ‘Queer’,” William S. Burroughs reflected in 1985, when his novella was finally published some 33 years after it was written. A bracing, More...
Queer review – Burroughs would be proud
The first time that lascivious raconteur William Lee (Daniel Craig) notices Eugene Allerton (Drew Starkey), he’s watching a group of men bartering over a cockfight in the street. Allerton emerges from a bar, More...
The 2024 Little White Lies Christmas Guide Guide
It’s the season for peace and goodwill to all men – and for gift-giving. We’ve put together a round-up of some of ours favourite film-related present options for the cinephile of good taste. Feel free to More...
A Complete Unknown review – drips with hollow trivia
The worst scene in the Coen brothers’ 2013 film Inside Llewyn Davis is vastly superior to the best scene in James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown, an icky, fawning screen bio of Ebbing, Minnesota’s own barrowboy-capped More...
LWLies 106: The Nickel Boys issue – Out now!
Picture the scene: a cold morning in London’s Soho. Film critics waddle towards the doors of a cinema with their gloves and coats on to waylay a sharp nip in the air. People are seated and relaxed. The lights More...
Lord Of The Rings: The War Of The Rohirrim review – not canon-level
There’s something naggingly “not quite” about this retro-vibed piece of animated Tolkien arcana, an attempt to fill in some contextual gaps for the author’s celebrated later work while also straining to More...
Merchant Ivory review – an affectionate yet shallow biodoc
Partners in film as well as in life, Indian producer Ismail Merchant and American writer/director James Ivory made 44 films together under the banner of their brainchild: Merchant Ivory Productions. Their impressive More...
