Truth & Movies: A Little White Lies Podcast

On this week’s Truth & Movies, the Scream franchise lives to fright another day as the post-modern slasher saga swaps Woodsboro for the Big Apple. Things get sticky in hackneyed horror spoof Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey. And in Film Club, 1989’s slasher deep cut Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan gets a rare revival. Finally, we’re joined by the supremely talented Cynthia Erivo to chat about the Luther movie and more.

Joining host Leila Latif are freelance film critics (and self-confessed horror hounds) Anton Bitel and Patrick Sproull.

Truth & Movies is the podcast from the film experts at Little White Lies, where along with selected colleagues and friends, they discuss the latest movie releases. Truth & Movies has all your film needs covered, reviewing the latest releases big and small, talking to some of the most exciting filmmakers, keeping you across important industry news, and reassessing great films from days gone by with the Truth & Movies Film Club.

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Twitter and Instagram: @LWLies

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This week Michael B Jordan dons his boxing gloves for the third time (and directs for the first!) as Apollo Creed in Creed III, and we take a peep at the Oscar-nominated Belgian drama of bittersweet childhood trials, Close. We also speak to Close director Lukas Dhont and screenwriter Angelo Tijsssens to glean insight on how an adult is able to write authentically for a child. Finally, for Film Club we revisit the 1974 Sidney Poiter western, Buck and the Preacher.

Joining host Leila Latif are freelance film critics and writers, Christina Newland and Jack King.

Truth & Movies is the podcast from the film experts at Little White Lies, where along with selected colleagues and friends, they discuss the latest movie releases. Truth & Movies has all your film needs covered, reviewing the latest releases big and small, talking to some of the most exciting filmmakers, keeping you across important industry news, and reassessing great films from days gone by with the Truth & Movies Film Club.

Email: [email protected]

Twitter and Instagram: @LWLies

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This week an unsuspecting bear does a lot of cocaine and is reborn as Cocaine Bear and we’re also looking at Hirokazu Kore-eda’s black-market baby drama Broker. The Deputy Artistic Director of the National Theatre spoke to host Leila Latif about his adaptation of Othello and the challenges of creating a cinematic “NCT Live”, and LWLies’ Marina Ashioti is live from the Berlinale telling us about all the festival’s biggest and best titles. Finally, for Film Club we returned to bears, with Werner Herzog’s harrowing tale of hubris, Grizzly Man.

Joining host Leila Latif are Saskia Gaiger from LWLies and one of its contributors, Billie Walker.

Truth & Movies is the podcast from the film experts at Little White Lies, where along with selected colleagues and friends, they discuss the latest movie releases. Truth & Movies has all your film needs covered, reviewing the latest releases big and small, talking to some of the most exciting filmmakers, keeping you across important industry news, and reassessing great films from days gone by with the Truth & Movies Film Club.

Email: [email protected]

Twitter and Instagram: @LWLies

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This week Ant-Man and The Wasp find themselves battling Kang in the “Quantum Realm” and Leila Latif spoke to its star, the legendary Michael Douglas, about 50 years in Hollywood and the evolution of the blockbuster. We’re also looking at Jenny Slate’s unashamedly cutesy Oscar nominated Marcel The Shell With Shoes on. Finally, for film club we returned to Jenny Slate in non-shell form in pro-choice indie rom-com Obvious.

Joining host Leila Latif are LWLies contributors Kambole Campbell and Yasmin Omar.

Truth & Movies is the podcast from the film experts at Little White Lies, where along with selected colleagues and friends, they discuss the latest movie releases. Truth & Movies has all your film needs covered, reviewing the latest releases big and small, talking to some of the most exciting filmmakers, keeping you across important industry news, and reassessing great films from days gone by with the Truth & Movies Film Club.

Email: [email protected]

Twitter and Instagram: @LWLies

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This week Channing Tatum brings Mike Mike to London for his last dance. We’re looking at Sarah Polley’s adaptation of the Miriam Toews novel Women Talking and host Leila Latif spoke to the film’s star Claire Foy about the “work of female imagination”. Finally, for film club we returned to Sarah Polley’s former life as a child actor in 1997’s The Sweet Hereafter.

Joining host Leila Latif are Lwlies Editorial Assistant Marina Ashioti and programmed extraordinaire Grace Barber-Plentie.

Truth & Movies is the podcast from the film experts at Little White Lies, where along with selected colleagues and friends, they discuss the latest movie releases. Truth & Movies has all your film needs covered, reviewing the latest releases big and small, talking to some of the most exciting filmmakers, keeping you across important industry news, and reassessing great films from days gone by with the Truth & Movies Film Club.

Email: [email protected]

Twitter and Instagram: @LWLies

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This week we’ve got a bumper episode to kick off a new era for the podcast where we’ll be talking to a host of exciting filmmakers, writers and actors. We look at Darren Aronofsky’s Brenaissance igniting film, The Whale, and LWLies Digital Editor Hannah Strong spoke to the director about his heart-breaking tale of a self-destruction. Next up is Alice Diop’s exquisite tragedy, Saint Omer. Things shift gears again for M Night Shyamalan’s taut apocalyptic thriller Knock at the Cabin, and Hannah Strong’s interview with the great man himself. If that wasn’t, enough David Jenkins reports on the highlights of the Rotterdam Film Festival. Finally, for Film Club we revisit Ousmane Sembéne’s 1969 masterpiece, Black Girl.

Joining host Leila Latif are LWLies contributors Lillian Crawford and Rogan Graham.

Truth & Movies is the podcast from the film experts at Little White Lies, where along with selected colleagues and friends, they discuss the latest movie releases. Truth & Movies has all your film needs covered, reviewing the latest releases big and small, talking to some of the most exciting filmmakers, keeping you across important industry news, and reassessing great films from days gone by with the Truth & Movies Film Club.

Email: [email protected]

Twitter and Instagram: @LWLies

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On this week’s episode we survey the life and times of Steven Spielberg, whose autobiographical latest The Fabelmans is among the frontrunners at this year’s Academy Awards. Speaking of which, Laura Poitras’ essential docu-profile of the photographer and activist Nan Goldin is up for some top prizes too – and we’re delighted to be joined by the director. Finally, it’s back to NYC circa 1983 for Bette Gordon’s lo-fi erotic thriller, Variety.  

Joining host Leila Latif are LWLies editor at large Adam Woodward and associate editor Sophie Monks Kaufman.

Truth & Movies is the podcast from the film experts at Little White Lies, where along with selected colleagues and friends, they discuss the latest movie releases. Truth & Movies has all your film needs covered, reviewing the latest releases big and small, keeping you across important industry news, and reassessing great films from days gone by with the Truth & Movies Film Club.

Email: [email protected]

Twitter and Instagram: @LWLies

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We’re taking a trip back to cinema’s silent era this week to look at the new nostalgic (and divisive!) dirty bomb by American boy wonder Damien Chazelle, we coo the praise of the great Vicky Krieps who brings complex emotion to a dying woman in Emily Etef’s More Than Ever, and in Film Club we look back to the scintillating Clara Bow comedy, It, from 1927, in homage to Margot Robbie’s hell-raising starlet in Babylon. 

We’ll also be wrapping things up on a new segment where our guests recommend their non-movie cultural highlights.

Joining host Leila Latif are LWLies editor David Jenkins and journalist Christina Newland.

Truth & Movies is the podcast from the film experts at Little White Lies, where along with selected colleagues and friends, they discuss the latest movie releases. Truth & Movies has all your film needs covered, reviewing the latest releases big and small, keeping you across important industry news, and reassessing great films from days gone by with the Truth & Movies Film Club.

Email: [email protected]

Twitter and Instagram: @LWLies

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We're reckoning with two new girlboss icons and one Hollywood legend in this weeks' Truth & Movies, as Todd Fields' feted psychodrama TÁR and Gerard Johnstone's AI doll horror M3GAN hit the big screen. In Film Club, we're revisiting Bob Fosse's legendary self-critical musical All That Jazz, which was inspired by his own frenetic career and remains one of the most bracing portraits of complex genius. And we’ll be ending on a new segment where our guests recommend non-movie cultural highlights.

Joining host Leila Latif are LWLies digital editor Hannah Strong and journalist Marshall Schaffer. 

Truth & Movies is the podcast from the film experts at Little White Lies, where along with selected colleagues and friends, they discuss the latest movie releases. Truth & Movies has all your film needs covered, reviewing the latest releases big and small, keeping you across important industry news, and reassessing great films from days gone by with the Truth & Movies Film Club.

Email: [email protected]

Twitter and Instagram: @LWLies

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We’re back for what’s set to be another bumper yet at the movies. On this week’s show, there’s family drama on a Catalan peach farm in Carla Simón’s Alcarràs, Chinonye Chukwu directs a powerful and feeply moving biography of Emmett Till and his grieving mother, and in Film Club, we revisit Éric Rohmer’s classic conclusion to his Four Season series, 1998’s Autumn Tale.

Joining host Leila Latif are freelance critics Caitlin Quinlan and Ella Kemp.

Truth & Movies is the podcast from the film experts at Little White Lies, where along with selected colleagues and friends, they discuss the latest movie releases. Truth & Movies has all your film needs covered, reviewing the latest releases big and small, keeping you across important industry news, and reassessing great films from days gone by with the Truth & Movies Film Club.

Email: [email protected]

Twitter and Instagram: @LWLies

Produced by TCO

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.