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1 week ago | 
lwlies.com | Fred Barrett
About Little White Lies Little White Lies was established in 2005 as a bi-monthly print magazine committed to championing great movies and the talented people who make them. Combining cutting-edge design, illustration and journalism, we’ve been described as being “at the vanguard of the independent publishing movement.” Our reviews feature a unique tripartite ranking system that captures the different aspects of the movie-going experience. We believe in Truth & Movies.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
inreviewonline.com | Fred Barrett |Luke Gorham
Director Mikio Naruse never garnered the acclaim of Yasujirō Ozu, Kenji Mizoguchi, or Akira Kurosawa. The absence of a clearly legible “minimalism” (a reductive descriptor of Ozu’s style, for what it’s worth), elaborate long takes, and sweeping historical epics from his oeuvre hasn’t quite given Western cinephiles easy things to obsess over, nor have his elegant melodramas captured the imagination of the New Hollywood generation the way Kurosawa in particular has.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
inreviewonline.com | Fred Barrett |Luke Gorham
Girl meets boy. Boy meets girl. Love blossoms. Reality sets in. The pandemic hits.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
inreviewonline.com | Fred Barrett |Luke Gorham
Credit: Alicia Schemper/American Zoetrope Published as part of Francis Ford Coppola: As Big As Possible.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
inreviewonline.com | Fred Barrett |Luke Gorham
Before throwing us into the story proper, JT Mollner’s Strange Darling informs us that it was “shot entirely on 35mm film.” It’s a strange inclusion, especially preceding a film that already has so much going on at a narrative and visual level, that doesn’t really click until you find out that actor Giovanni Ribisi acted not only as the film’s cinematographer, but also its producer. Vanity is quickly forgiven, however, when actually witnessing the results.
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
inreviewonline.com | Fred Barrett |Luke Gorham
The first obvious parallel to Tilman Singer’s horror-thriller Cuckoo is The Shining. A family — Luis (Marton Csokas), the patriarch, Gretchen (Hunter Schafer), his teenage daughter, Beth (Jessica Henwick), the stepmom, and Alma (Mila Lieu), Beth’s young, mute daughter — has packed up not just from the city but from America, and is heading out to the Bavarian Alps. The adults, both architects, have been hired to design a new tourist resort for the impenetrable Herr König (Dan Stevens).
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
inreviewonline.com | Fred Barrett |Luke Gorham
There appears to be strange, insidious brand of conservatism permeating the culture. Far removed from Silicon Valley-funded reactionary wannabe bohemians, whose broader cultural impact is negligible in spite of the onslaught of think pieces they’ve inspired, culture-industry conservatism has frequently also come papered over by the language and gestures of American progressivism. The result is a cinema of jargons, of easy declaration.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
inreviewonline.com | Fred Barrett |Luke Gorham
The first obvious parallel to Tilman Singer’s horror-thriller Cuckoo is The Shining. A family — Luis (Marton Csokas), the patriarch, Gretchen (Hunter Schafer), his teenage daughter, Beth (Jessica Henwick), the stepmom, and Alma (Mila Lieu), Beth’s young, mute daughter — has packed up not just from the city but from America, and is heading out to the Bavarian Alps. The adults, both architects, have been hired to design a new tourist resort for the impenetrable Herr König (Dan Stevens).
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Jul 27, 2024 | 
inreviewonline.com | Fred Barrett |Luke Gorham
In her 2019 memoir, In the Eye of the Wild, French anthropologist Nastassja Martin grapples with the aftermath of a near-fatal bear attack in the Siberian wilderness, an attack which left her mutilated and also threw her life out of balance in a more philosophical and spiritual sense. Her friend, Andrey, articulates her encounter and miraculous survival thusly: “He didn’t mean to kill you, he wanted to mark you.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
inreviewonline.com | Fred Barrett |Luke Gorham
“The physical world relies on a much more complex universe. Like fish who cannot see the water they are in, we are immersed in something we cannot see either.” In Sofia Alaoui’s opaque sci-fi drama Animalia, characters grapple with the unknowable as they come face to face with an abstract alien invasion which has put Morocco in a state of emergency.
