What makes Bill Skarsgård so monstrous?
I n 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…
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How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies review – a Thai charmer
T here’s an inevitability that whenever a non-English-language film proves a notable crossover hit internationally, talk of a Hollywood redo will s…
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10 films that deserve the Muppet Christmas Carol treatment
O ne 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 …
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Nosferatu review – an earthy, erotic masterwork
R obert Eggers’ preoccupation with history has been portrayed in some corners as an excessive fussiness, a persnickety need for granular accuracy t…
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Nickel Boys review – a miracle of a movie
A t 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 …
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Mufasa: The Lion King review – let down by weak script and songs
“E verything the light touches” is an apt descriptor for the features, shorts and TV shows made by Barry Jenkins in collaboration with his trusty c…
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National Anthem review – maintains a bold sense of hopefulness
I n recent years, the classic western has undergone a period of reinvention. No longer is it the silhouette of macho masculinity framed against the…
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Kraven the Hunter review – put it out of its misery
I n 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 C…
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Magic and Loss: On the making of Queer
W hile 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 finall…
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Queer review – Burroughs would be proud
T he first time that lascivious raconteur William Lee (Daniel Craig) notices Eugene Allerton (Drew Starkey), he’s watching a group of men bartering…
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The 2024 Little White Lies Christmas Guide Guide
I t’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 pres…
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A Complete Unknown review – drips with hollow trivia
T he 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…
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LWLies 106: The Nickel Boys issue – Out now!
P icture 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 s…
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Lord Of The Rings: The War Of The Rohirrim review – not canon-level
T here’s something naggingly “not quite” about this retro-vibed piece of animated Tolkien arcana, an attempt to fill in some contextual gaps for th…
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