Katherine McLaughlin
@mskmclaughlin.bsky.social
I write and talk about film, TV, music, podcasts, books etc LWLies, The List, BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Radio Scotland, S&S, BFI. Features Editor for SciFiNow Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/1vkz Football fan ⚽️
I loved HOPE. Run to the cinemas! My review www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/hope... big blockbuster energy!
Hope review: A wild and awe-inspiring genre bending sci-fi Western
Na Hong-jin’s South Korean sci-fi Western has blockbuster energy. Our review...
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I enjoyed Georgia Oakley’s dark and wild take on Sense and Sensibility. It still has its moments of humour and Esme Creed-Miles turns in a beautiful performance. Glad they really leaned into what an immature fuckboi Willoughby is too!Gorgeous, painterly cinematography by Arnoud Potier.
Make time for this special film if you can. Remake is incredibly moving and tenderly crafted. It’s out now!
MetFilm Studio@metfilmstudio.com · 2w agoRoss McElwee's Remake is in cinemas now ★★★★★ The Guardian ★★★★★ The Times ★★★★★ Little White Lies ★★★★★ Time Out www.metfilmstudio.com/distribution...
An exciting feature debut released by the always exciting distribution company @otherparties.bsky.social My review of BARRIO TRISTE out now in cinemas 🩵
Little White Lies@lwlies.com · 4w agoBad Bunny video director Stillz makes a startling feature debut with this found-footage odyssey through Medellín’s hillside comunas. Barrio Triste review: lwlies.com/reviews/barr...
My review of BAD APPLES out now in cinemas. Jess O’Kane’s screenplay is excellent as it is navigates structural issues and the sinister motives of British society as a whole.
Little White Lies@lwlies.com · 4w agoSaoirse Ronan excels as a burnt-out primary school teacher in this unhinged satire that’s as funny as it is unsettling. Bad Apples review: lwlies.com/reviews/bad-...
Star Trek is 60 and The Voyage Home is 40 and showing in cinemas now. I revisited the film for its anniversary www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/star... 🖖🐋🩵 A pleasure in which i disappeared down a Leonard Nimoy YouTube interview rabbit hole. So charismatic!
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home review: A Fascinating and Prescient Fish Out of Water Sci-fi Comedy
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home is back in UK cinemas! We look back on the Leonard Nimoy-directed classic...
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‘I need you to feel how it feels to lose your mind completely,’ narrates Elizabeth Sankey early on in Witches, her brutally honest documentary about postpartum depression and psychosis. Interview: list.co.uk/news/elizabe... by me.
Elizabeth Sankey on her new film: 'I really wanted to spend a lot of time watching witch films and finding solace in these women'
In her new documentary, Elizabeth Sankey opens up on the difficult debate around women’s mental health and how we deal with it. She explains to Katherine McLaug
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The Last Guest of the Holloway Motel is showing at The Arzner until 9th September. Go if you can! I wrote a little bit about the film and the directors Q&A here: boxd.it/g8oqoh No spoilers but I do have the tea ☕️ on Tony. Feel free to @ me 🏳️🌈
The new Lili Horvat film, My Notes on Mars, stars Mackenzie Davis! A dream pairing. Can’t wait to see this one.
I enjoyed the fun dinosaur movie 🤷♀️ My review of The End of Oak Street www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/the-... The dinos have feathers!! 🦖 👏
The End of Oak Street Review: A hilarious and touching cosmic genre-bending dinosaur flick
David Robert Mitchell’s The End of Oak Street stomps into Spielbergian territory, blending dinosaur thrills, ’80s nostalgia and intimate family drama into a surprisingly tender creature feature.
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Honoured to join @mskmclaughlin.bsky.social & @leilalatif.bsky.social for @lwlies.com's Truth & Movies podcast, discussing Sébastien Vaniček’s EVIL DEAD BURN (2026), Karim Aïnouz’s ROSEBUSH PRUNING (2026) and Marco Bellocchio’s classic FISTS IN THE POCKET (1965) shows.acast.com/truthandmovi...
Evil Dead Burn | Rosebush Pruning | Fists in His Pockets (1965) | Truth & Movies: A Little White Lies Podcast
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I spoke to Karim Ainouz about his sicko new film Rosebush Pruning lwlies.com/interviews/k... @lwlies.com Out in cinemas this week.
Karim Aïnouz: ‘I was interested in questioning the safe space of…
Disruption and provocation were key motives behind the decision to make Rosebush Pruning, a new, sick treatise on family.
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Tony Rayns, the British film critic, programmer, translator and tireless advocate for East Asian cinema, has died
Tony Rayns (1948 to 2026)
The British critic and programmer was a world renowned expert in East Asian cinema, helping to bring many major Asian filmmakers to international attention.
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I am a VERY newly annointed single mum and the circumstances leading to this newfound status have been really ugly - deeply unpleasant, upsetting and destabilising. If you've ever enjoyed my books, blu-ray work or horror documentaries, now is the time to help a sister out!
Alexandra Heller-Nicholas@horrornonna.com · 3mo agoMy 2026 has been a divorce-shaped Stygian nightmare of housing insecurity, drifting between Airbnbs, couchsurfing + housesitting. But the goddess just blessed me with my own tiny apartment! I need to move/furnish it for myself + kid almost from scratch: a humble call for help if you can to do so!
I took part in this trial in Birmingham…by drinking a pint on the terrace and not causing a fight www.theguardian.com/football/202... 🍻
WSL and WSL2 fans can drink alcohol in stands next season after successful trial
Leagues’ regulations have been altered after a positive test period though clubs will not be obliged to offer the option to supporters
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For the Guardian, further thoughts on DISCLOSURE DAY: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
Alienated by Disclosure Day? You are not alone
Audiences have propelled Spielberg’s alien thriller to the top of the box office. Yet some exiting the cinema appear to believe this sappy extravaganza is not the director’s finest hour
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LWLies 16: The Persepolis issue RIP to the great Marjane Satrapi
I enjoyed Erupcja. It’s out in cinemas this week. My review 💕
Little White Lies@lwlies.com · 4mo ago‘Employing a similar freewheeling technique to the French New Wave, director Pete Ohs’ romantic eruption of Sapphic emotions, lost connections and vanishing acts was filmed following the aftermath of brat summer and written on the fly with the actors also credited on the screenplay.‘
Hit a home run with these beauties 😉 I enjoyed both of the hip new horrors but for me personally Camp Miasma is the GOAT. I want to live in that film.
First time watch of King of New York and wow! Walken’s dancing and entire performance is dazzling. Ratcatcher is such an impressive debut by Lynne Ramsay…It has so much to say about family, social mobility and housing as does I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning it’s one of the best films of the year
A cool new clip for the adaptation of Keiran Goddard’s Birmingham set novel. Directed by Clio Barnard with a screenplay by Enda Walsh youtu.be/U46yuOQzvxw?... My thoughts are embargoed until after the Cannes premiere on 20th May.
I SEE BUILDINGS FALL LIKE LIGHTNING | Official Clip - Coming Soon to UK & Ireland
YouTube video by Curzon
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The Christophers is out now in the UK. It made me laugh loads and Ian McKellen is sooooo good in this as a grumpy artist. No thanks to the backwards fat = greedy stuff tho 😕More thoughts: boxd.it/e9pn3F
A review of The Christophers (2025)
Would make a fun double bill with Let Them All Talk (which never got a UK cinema release). Both good on legacy, intergenerational relationships and painful creative inspiration.
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