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  1. Untamed true story: Rodrigo Sorogoyen's THE BEASTS ( As Bestas, 2022) gives a real-life saga of simmering masculine violence a feminine tailspin. Now on #BFIPlayer. Full review for #LittleWhiteLies lwlies.com/reviews/the-beasts/

  2. "questions are raised as to whether what unfolds is illusion, reality, collective mesmerism, corporate control, or a personal breakdown viewed from the inside": Cameron & Colin Cairnes' LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL, 6.20pm at #ThePrinceCharlesCinema for #BFILondonFilmFestival #LFF. Capsule for #LittleWhiteLies lwlies.com/festivals/midnight-

  3. "a baroque melodrama about more than one broken family," Juanma Bajo Ulloa’s restorative THE DEAD MOTHER (1993) is "classically crafted and at times near Hitchcockian in its suspense". On Blu-ray from today via #RadianceFilms. Capsule for #LittleWhiteLies lwlies.com/articles/what-to-wa

  4. Mad Men of Japan: Yasuzo Masumura's GIANTS AND TOYS (1958) is a bittersweet satire of rapid postwar change, set in the cutthroat world of candy advertising. Now on #ArrowPlayer (selected by Dan Martin). Review for #LittleWhiteLies lwlies.com/articles/giants-and

  5. "a vibrant Tarantino-esque clusterfuck": Katsuhito Ishii's SHARK SKIN MAN AND PEACH HIP GIRL (1999) is on #ArrowPlayer (UK/Ireland) from today. Review for #LittleWhiteLies lwlies.com/articles/what-to-wa

  6. Besides the romantic comedy of love, "the other constants in this non-evolving history are ingenious stunts, pratfalls and sight gags": Buster Keaton's THREE AGES (1923) now on Blu via #EurekaEntertainment. Capsule for #LittleWhiteLies lwlies.com/articles/what-to-wa

  7. Besides the romantic comedy of love, "the other constants in this non-evolving history are ingenious stunts, pratfalls and sight gags": Buster Keaton's THREE AGES (1923) now on Blu via #EurekaEntertainment. Capsule for #LittleWhiteLies lwlies.com/articles/what-to-wa

  8. Besides the romantic comedy of love, "the other constants in this non-evolving history are ingenious stunts, pratfalls and sight gags": Buster Keaton's THREE AGES (1923) now on Blu via #EurekaEntertainment. Capsule for #LittleWhiteLies lwlies.com/articles/what-to-wa

  9. Besides the romantic comedy of love, "the other constants in this non-evolving history are ingenious stunts, pratfalls and sight gags": Buster Keaton's THREE AGES (1923) now on Blu via #EurekaEntertainment. Capsule for #LittleWhiteLies lwlies.com/articles/what-to-wa

  10. Besides the romantic comedy of love, "the other constants in this non-evolving history are ingenious stunts, pratfalls and sight gags": Buster Keaton's THREE AGES (1923) now on Blu via #EurekaEntertainment. Capsule for #LittleWhiteLies lwlies.com/articles/what-to-wa

  11. Star cross'd lovers: Benny Chan’s A MOMENT OF ROMANCE (1990) "merges crime flick and romance, while teasing out these genres’ differences." On Blu from today via #Radiance. Capsule for #LittleWhiteLies lwlies.com/articles/what-to-wa

  12. "Mori is certainly the hero, but there is more than one villain, and the Mafia prove not just the Fascists’ enemies but their rivals in criminality": Pasquale Squitieri's proto-poliziottesco THE IRON PREFECT (1977) is now on Blu via #RadianceFilms. Review for #LittleWhiteLies lwlies.com/articles/what-to-wa

  13. "a resistance, sometimes armed, to the prevailing ideology, as the two young men (the future!) join forces with those left behind by the Reagan era": Robert Altman's teen buddy comedy O.C. and STIGGS (1987) on Blu from today via #RadianceFilms. Review for #LittleWhiteLies lwlies.com/articles/what-to-wa

  14. "uses the past... as a prism to America’s present, while finding warts-and-all sympathy for the nation’s marginalised outlaws": Robert Altman's Depression-era THIEVES LIKE US (1974) is on Blu from today via #RadianceFilms. Review for #LittleWhiteLies lwlies.com/articles/what-to-wa

  15. Ghostface Takes Manahattan: in Radio Silence's SCREAM VI (2023), "old tropes die hard". On 4K UHD, Blu-ray and DVD from today via #Paramount UK. Review for #LittleWhiteLies #ScreamVI📷 lwlies.com/reviews/scream-vi

  16. "Rothrock truly is the film’s weapon of mass destruction, taking on an army of opponents from East and West alike with a charm that is lethal": Hoi Mang's LADY REPORTER (1989) now on Blu via #EurekaEntertainment. Review for #LittleWhiteLies lwlies.com/articles/what-to-wa

  17. "a vibrantly dynamic coming-of-age story, playing out Sugihara’s rebellious adolescence and confused sense of identity with equal speed and swagger": Isao Yukisada's violent love story GO (2001) is on Blu-ray from today via #ThirdWindowFilms. Review for #LittleWhiteLies lwlies.com/articles/isao-yukis

  18. Ghostface Takes Manahattan: in Radio Silence's SCREAM VI (2023), "old tropes die hard". Now on UK download via #Paramount. Review for #LittleWhiteLies #ScreamVI lwlies.com/reviews/scream-vi/

  19. 'Hallucinema': Iván Zulueta's ARREBATO (1979) is "a film where cinema itself is the ultimate vampire, and its subject the prey, addicted to the rapture of being caught and drained."
    Available on Blu-ray from today via #RadianceFilms. Review for #LittleWhiteLies lwlies.com/articles/arrebato-i

  20. Luis Buñuel's surreal class satire THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE (1972) serves up "something deliciously funny, but bitter in its aftertaste." Screens 3.30pm at #ThePrinceCharlesCinema (London). Full review for #LittleWhiteLies lwlies.com/articles/the-discre

  21. Luis Buñuel's surreal class satire THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE (1972) serves up "something deliciously funny, but bitter in its aftertaste." Screens 3.30pm at #ThePrinceCharlesCinema. Full review for #LittleWhiteLies lwlies.com/articles/the-discre

  22. "It’s a bold, brassy, outrageous, often very funny story about humanity – and other animals – struggling to find their way in an unjust world of fakery and illusion": Gakuryū Ishii's PUNK SAMURAI (2018) on Blu-ray from #ThirdWindowFilms. Review for #LittleWhiteLies lwlies.com/articles/gakuryu-is

  23. "a comedy of cringe, capturing all the discomfort and gawkiness of coming of age": Todd Solondz's WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE (1995) is on Blu-ray from today via #RadianceFilms. Review for #LittleWhiteLies lwlies.com/articles/the-perver

  24. "a comedy of cringe, capturing all the discomfort and gawkiness of coming of age": Todd Solondz's WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE (1985) is on Blu-ray from Monday via #RadianceFilms. Review for #LittleWhiteLies lwlies.com/articles/the-perver

  25. "...unfolds in the fairyland where Straw Dogs and Wrong Turn meet Irish folk horror": Jon Wright's pregnant tale of trauma UNWELCOME is available to invade your home on digital download from today via #WarnerBrosUK. Review for #LittleWhiteLies
    #Horror
    lwlies.com/reviews/unwelcome/

  26. Nathaniel Martello-White's twisty small-town domestic thriller THE STRAYS (2023) is "a provocative allegory of black experience in white Britain", with a sprinkle of Michael Haneke, Thomas Clay & Jordan Peele. On #NetflixUK from tomorrow. Not to be missed. Review for #LittleWhiteLies #Thriller #Race #Class #Imposture lwlies.com/reviews/the-strays/

  27. "a sunlit neo-noir rooted in quirky character and darkly comic encounters, as two very different men try on each other’s personas for size, and the woman caught between them must also decide between a path of virtue or vice": George Armitage's MIAMI BLUES (1990) is released on Blu-ray from today via #RadianceFilms Review for #LittleWhiteLies
    #NeoNoir #FredWard #AlecBaldwin #JenniferJasonLeigh

    lwlies.com/articles/the-frenet

  28. "Kevin's inverted adventures are uncanny, oneiric and utterly unnerving": Kyle Edward Ball's mesmerising experiment Skinamarink (2022) is "pure and primal child's-eye horror" - and while everyone has said to catch this on a big screen, in many ways it well benefit from being seen in a darkened home setting...
    On #ShudderUK from today. Review for #LittleWhiteLies
    #Horror #HauntedHouse lwlies.com/reviews/skinamarink

  29. "...unfolds in the fairyland where Straw Dogs and Wrong Turn meet Irish folk horror, as an English woman comes to realise the sacrifices that it takes to become a true Irish mammy": Jon Wright's Unwelcome in UK cinemas from Friday. Review for #LittleWhiteLies
    #Horror #Trauma #IrishFolktale
    lwlies.com/reviews/unwelcome

  30. "Kevin's inverted adventures are uncanny, oneiric and utterly unnerving": Kyle Edward Ball's mesmerising experiment SKINAMARINK (2022) is "pure and primal child's-eye horror".
    Whatever this is, it is not like other films.
    Has a week's run at #ThePrinceCharlesCinema (London), starting 6.20pm this evening. Review for #LittleWhiteLies
    #Horror #Children #Night #House lwlies.com/reviews/skinamarink

  31. "Lulù’s raw individuality cannot easily be accommodated by any ideological theory – and while THE WORKING CLASS GOES TO HEAVEN is full of conflicting ideas shouted through bullhorns, Lulù remains an awkward, time-serving misfit." Elio Petri's proletarian parable - and improbably precursor to Lynch's ERASERHEAD - is now on Blu-ray via #RadianceFilms. Review for #LittleWhiteLies
    lwlies.com/articles/the-classi

  32. "Kevin's inverted adventures are uncanny, oneiric and utterly unnerving": Kyle Edward Ball's mesmerisingly experimental SKINAMARINK (2022) is "pure and primal child's-eye horror". Coming to #ThePrinceCharlesCinema from 13 Jan. Review for #LittleWhiteLies
    #Horror #Child #House #Night
    lwlies.com/reviews/skinamarink

  33. Scott Cooper's THE PALE BLUE EYE "is all at once a melancholic romance, a revenger’s tragedy, and an intriguing mystery. Its one problem, though, is that it comes with a glacial pace to match its wintry setting".
    This imagining of Edgar Allen Poe's early years is in UK cinemas now. Review for #LittleWhiteLies #EdgarAllenPoe #DetectiveStory #Murder #Ritual lwlies.com/reviews/the-pale-bl

  34. Starring Sammo Hung, Wu Ma's supernatural body-swapping period comedy THE DEAD AND THE DEADLY (1982) "foregrounds many of the wackier aspects of Chinese folklore, while wholly inventing other rules for the supernatural."
    On Blu-ray from #EurekaEntertainment. Review for #LittleWhiteLies #SammoHung lwlies.com/articles/discover-t

  35. @samatlounge Hi Sam! I’m Philippa East, psychological suspense author with HQ/HarperCollins. Novels are: #LittleWhiteLies, #SafeAndSound and #IllNeverTell. I’m also a #Clinical Psychologist. Looking forward to linking up with fellow #readers / #authors / #publishers / #book people!