Luca Guadagnino: ‘I don’t watch tennis matches. It’s quite boring to me’

By David Jenkins

We catch up with the Italian provocateur behind Challengers: the sports drama starring Zendaya, Josh O'Connor and Mike Faist, that's getting pulses raising around the world this spring.

Cannes Film Festival 2024: the full line-up

By David Jenkins

Yorgos Lanthimos, David Cronenberg and Francis Ford Coppola roll out for France's premiere film jamboree.

LWLies 102: the Challengers issue – Out now!

By Little White Lies

Join our fully-illustrated celebration of Luca Guadagnino’s sparkling sports romcom.

Features

Three’s Company: Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist on Challengers

By David Jenkins

The trio at the heart of Luca Guadagnino's racy tennis drama tell all about summer camp, short shorts, and their formative Guadagnino experiences.

The Crip Cinema Archive wants to change the way we think about disability in film

By Hannah Strong

Founded by Emily Simmons, this new project aims to provide an inclusive resource about the past, present and future of disability on and off screen.

Luca Guadagnino: ‘I don’t watch tennis matches. It’s quite boring to me’

By David Jenkins

We catch up with the Italian provocateur behind Challengers: the sports drama starring Zendaya, Josh O'Connor and Mike Faist, that's getting pulses raising around the world this spring.

Bodies in motion: a report from CPH:DOX 2024

By Savina Petkova

One of the world’s most important documentary festival delivers a host of very fine films as well as some flim-flammy political statements.

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Reviews

Nezouh review – compassionate but needlessly convoluted

By Hamza Shehryar

Soudade Kaadan’s second feature is truistic yet forceful in examining the complexities of human suffering and confinement through a teenage girl stuck in the thick of the Syrian civil war.

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The American Society of Magical Negroes review – an undercooked, frustrating satire

By Hamza Shehryar

Less Harry Potter and more American Fiction, this politically charged satire is more banal than it first seems.

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Abigail – avoid the trailer for maximum, bloody pleasure

By Anton Bitel

A pack of hired goons get more than they bargained for in this inventive and nasty evil kid romp.

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If Only I Could Hibernate – a very fine first feature

By Hamza Shehryar

This Mongolian drama of a poverty-stricken young academic abandoned by his mother makes for a intriguing debut.

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All You Need Is Death review – a memorable fiction debut

By David Jenkins

A young couple get more than they bargained for when they translate a rare folk ballad in this effective Irish horror.

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Fantastic Machine review – there’s way too much going on here

By Savina Petkova

Maximilien Van Aertryck and Axel Danielson set out to investigate the implications of the camera, from its invention to the present day, with mixed results.

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