Anything that is prefixed with “dynamic” is generally code for “we’re doing something massively shitty and we’re using business jargon to make it sound morally legit.”

I love the urgency and passion of fast-turnaround festival reviewing, and this take on The Brutalist is one of the best examples of when someone is able to capture that lightning in a bottle…

only bad films are too long

Belatedly occurred to me that Megalopolis has big Masked and Anonymous energy (in a good way).

From #Venezia81, From Darkness to Light unearths vital fragments of one of cinema’s most fascinating enigmas: Jerry Lewis’s The Day the Clown Cried. lwlies.com/festivals/from…

Motorbikes, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, first love – Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma's teen melodrama launches a star in Paul Kircher lwlies.com/festivals/leur… #Venezia81

Any insight into why only about half the films on this upcoming Chantal Akerman boxset has English subs? Seems like an odd choice… capricci.fr/wordpress/prod…

I'm still trying to pull myself together after watching Walter Salles's elegantly moving elegy I'M STILL HERE, but very glad I got to write about it for @lwlies #Venezia81 lwlies.com/festivals/im-s…

Loved Feeding the Monster by Anna Bogutskaya – a supremely satisfying mix of biography and criticism which not only makes an artistic and ideological case for horror cinema, but shows how art can influence, improve (and confuse!) our daily lives. faber.co.uk/product/978057…

Grab a copy of issue 104: an illustrated ode to Zoë Kravitz's Blink Twice 🌺 Visit our online shop: lwlies.imbmsubscriptions.com/current-issue Cover artwork by Sarah Madden

Luca Guadagnino's Queer: the more I think about it the more I am in!!! lwlies.com/festivals/quee…

Luca Guadagnino's Queer finds compelling leads in Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey, as he creates a heady dream world of lust, loneliness and the search for transcendence #Venecia81 lwlies.com/festivals/quee…

We’re thrilled to be partnering with the BFI #LFF again this year, taking place 9-20 Oct in London and across and the UK. With the line-up just announced, here’s a quick 🧵 of our top programme picks...

Bending the boundaries of documentary and sci-fi, Asif Kapadia presents an urgent message about the current state of the world, and where we might be headed, with help from Samantha Morton #Venezia81 lwlies.com/festivals/2073…

Wow... I would be very happy with (what appears to be) a bizarro world Happy-Go-Lucky.

Sounds from the reviews more like Joker: Folie à don't.

A reminder that our lovely new issue is on shelves NOW and your support would mean the world to us, each page literally stained with blood, sweat and tears (we use them in the ink to save $$$).

In the cinema of Pedro Almodóvar, gender proves more fluid and arbitrary than in much of contemporary cinema lwlies.com/articles/the-i…

From the latest issue… 50 movies telling the story of female actors moving behind the camera, from the silent era to present day. Mai Zetterling! Barbara Loden! Joan Chen! Liv Ullmann! Angelina Jolie! Mati Diop! If anyone’s seen all of these I’ll have someone eat a hat.