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Katherine McLaughlin

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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 ⚽️

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Left-Handed Girl is out in select cinemas from today and on Netflix at the end of the month. My glowing review list.co.uk/news/left-ha... @thelistuk.bsky.social Don’t let the title put you off!

14.11.2025 15:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Trenque Lauquen: Parts 1 & 2 film review – Staggering and sprawling odyssey | The List Genre-spanning and period-hopping adventure from Laura Citarella that beguiles and astonishes

If, after that, you fancy watching more great Argentinian cinema then you should check out Trenque Lauquen list.co.uk/news/trenque... It’s been 2 years since I first watched this film and still when faced with making complex life decisions I think to myself, ‘what would Laura do?’ Have an adventure!

14.11.2025 10:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Belén review – a superior femme-focused legal thriller from Argentina Dolores Fonzi channels Pedro Almodóvar in this taut, true-life tale of a woman who is wrongly arrested while in hospital.

You can read the excellent @lwlies.com review of Belen here lwlies.com/reviews/belen

14.11.2025 10:37 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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It’s a wet and windy weekend ahead so maybe spend it watching some films. Rouge and Belen are now available to stream at home and I recommend both.

14.11.2025 10:35 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Oh yes someone should.

06.11.2025 16:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Happy Halloween 🎃 Great Frankenstein issue out now.

31.10.2025 08:07 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Bugonia Review: A Scathingly Funny Sci-fi Satire Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons and Aidan Delbis star in Yorgos Lanthimos' dark sci-fi comedy. Our review...

My review of BUGONIA www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/bugo... @scifinow.bsky.social Out now in cinemas.

31.10.2025 06:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere film review – Searing and sincere | The List With star turns by two of the finest Jeremys in the acting game, this rich biopic of The Boss zeroes in on the moment his career stood at a fragile crossroads

My review of Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere list.co.uk/news/springs... @thelistuk.bsky.social

31.10.2025 06:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Roofman review – another ep of the Channing Tatum show Poppy star charisma drives this ripped-from-the-headlines comedy-drama from the usual morose writer/director, Derek Cianfrance.

Poppy star charisma drives this ripped-from-the-headlines comedy-drama from the usual morose writer/​director, Derek Cianfrance.

Roofman review: lwlies.com/reviews/roof...

17.10.2025 09:08 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Paul Thomas Anderson on writing, The PCC and One Battle After Another The director talks to Dazed about his most ambitious film yet – a sweeping father-daughter thriller about activism, revenge and the price of a past that won’t stay buried

Fun interview with PTA www.dazeddigital.com/film-tv/arti... by @halfacanyon.bsky.social

25.09.2025 11:29 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Bob Hoskins was a good one!

25.09.2025 07:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The List Magazine is turning 40 in October! So I’ve been going through back issues recently.

25.09.2025 07:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The List is turning 40 🎉

Next, it's the eventful 2000s. This it the time that guest editor Ian Rankin swapped case files for headlines, Noel Gallagher promised us that Oasis would never split up, and Alan Cummings told us he owes his whole career to The List.

24.09.2025 11:02 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Also the Good Hang episode with Regina Hall is hilarious. And so is One Battle After Another. New PTA is out 26th September. Run don’t walk!

24.09.2025 14:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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I haven’t posted here for 3 months so here’s some recommendations. If you haven’t seen HAPPYEND yet you should check it out.

24.09.2025 14:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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A great cinema experience!!

09.06.2025 06:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Watched documentaries on Werner Herzog and Faye Dunaway this week. Both were fine. I cried all the tears watching Homebound and I hope it gets UK distribution. I laughed till I cried at the ballbuster scene in Carnal Knowledge(a hugely depressing and honest film about men).

07.06.2025 09:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Ballad Of Wallis Island review – relishes in daft physical comedy Comedian collaborators Tim Key and Tom Basden co-write and co-star in James Griffiths’ pleasant bromance flick.

My review of The Ballad of Wallis Island from the new issue. It’s rather lovely! lwlies.com/reviews/the-... @lwlies.com

01.06.2025 10:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Gorgeous new @lwlies.com has arrived! Just wanted to highlight this paragraph from @daveyjenkins.bsky.social The Phoenician Scheme review…Michael Cera in a Wes Anderson flick is perfect.

01.06.2025 09:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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New print edition of @lwlies.com is on shelves now and available via out online shop. Wes, Benicio, Mia, Michael speak! Plus an exploration of WA literary ephemera, and a huge index of absolute rotters/rascals in 1940s cinema. Please do, as they say, come thru…

23.05.2025 10:07 — 👍 33    🔁 12    💬 3    📌 1
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Daisy-May Hudson’s first fiction feature, Lollipop, is a gut punch of a film.

She speaks to @mskmclaughlin.bsky.social about depicting the complexities of motherhood and female friendship

23.05.2025 13:56 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

A great run! The final acts of A Brighter Summer Day and My Favourite Cake kind of broke me tho 😭 Cillian Murphy in Disco Pigs…wild performance!

23.05.2025 20:59 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Phoenician Scheme review – an absolute gas A charming arms dealer heads on the road to redemption in this pristine shot of pure pleasure from filmmaker Wes Anderson.

Really enjoyed The Phoenician Scheme especially Michael Cera! Great @lwlies.com review lwlies.com/reviews/the-... Out in cinemas 23rd May

20.05.2025 12:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ah that’s good to hear. That film made me feel a gamut of emotions tbh

19.05.2025 15:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

He made me feel sick so you should be excited.

19.05.2025 15:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Dangerous Animals review: The Speed of shark movies! Dangerous Animals be the most romantic shark movie ever made. Our review...

My review of Dangerous Animals www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/dang... for @scifinow.bsky.social it’s fun and I genuinely found it romantic! #cannes2025

19.05.2025 15:03 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

I’m not at #cannes2025 because tbh I can’t afford to go but I have written a review..!

19.05.2025 15:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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“I was thinking of the price you pay for being obedient”: India Donaldson on her debut film Good One Not much is said on the father-daughter hiking trip that takes place in India Donaldson’s slow-burn drama Good One, but it’s the silences that tell us most about the growing rift between parent and ch...

“My memory of being a teenager is that you want to think the best of people, you want to believe that they are interested in you for genuine reasons”

@mskmclaughlin.bsky.social speaks to Good One director India Donaldson www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

18.05.2025 16:15 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

Thank you!

19.05.2025 07:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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