Josh Slater-Williams

3 weeks ago | lwlies.com | Josh Slater-Williams

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.

3 weeks ago | bfi.org.uk | Rachel Pronger |Isabel Stevens |Sam Wigley |Josh Slater-Williams

How do you plan a retrospective around a filmmaker with a limited body of work? This question lies at the heart of Wanda and Beyond: The World of Barbara Loden, a new season screening at BFI Southbank this June. Many fans of feminist and US independent cinema will have heard of Wanda, a low budget 1970 US indie road movie, and the sole directorial feature of actor turned filmmaker Barbara Loden.

1 month ago | bfi.org.uk | Isabel Stevens |Sam Wigley |Josh Slater-Williams |Leigh Singer

More than just one of the world’s most bankable stars, Tom Cruise is an impresario and a powerful advocate for the big-screen theatrical experience. On the occasion of the BFI awarding him a Fellowship, he talks about his lifelong devotion to cinema and his unforgettable work with Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick and Paul Thomas Anderson. Updated: 23 May 2025It took just a pink shirt, white socks and a slide.

1 month ago | indiewire.com | Josh Slater-Williams

Twelve features deep into a filmography now stretching back almost 25 years, the work of director (and usually writer) Koji Fukada can broadly be defined by an interest in the illusion of stability or momentum being overturned by one single decision or event changing everything for the core characters, often a family unit. In his Un Certain Regard prize-winning “Harmonium” (2016), the welcoming of a former acquaintance into a couple’s home sets off a devastating chain reaction.

1 month ago | bfi.org.uk | Sam Wigley |Josh Slater-Williams |Leigh Singer |Katie McCabe

Twenty-five years on from the premiere of In the Mood for Love, Wong Kar Wai looks back on the complicated genesis of his masterpiece of desire and restraint. 20 May 2025The film that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival 25 years ago, on 20 May 2000, was not the one that Wong Kar Wai had envisaged when he set out on the project sometime around 1997. Far from it. In the Mood for Love emerged from a succession of rapidly evolving projects. One was called Summer in Beijing – it was a comedy.