Katherine McLaughlin

A great cinema experience!!

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).

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

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.

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…

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

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!

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

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

He made me feel sick so you should be excited.

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

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

“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...

Thank you!

A ‘quietly devastating coming of age picture’ | The Observer On an increasingly fraught hiking trip in the Catskills with her dad and his needy pal, a teenager has a terrible epiphany in a supremely accomplished debut

My @observer review of India Donaldson’s impressive debut, Good One, in cinemas now. observer.co.uk/culture/film...

“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...

Morning! I spoke to India Donaldson about her brilliant debut feature Good One www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so... for @sightsoundmag.bsky.social

We're delighted to reveal the cover of LWLies #108: The Phoenician Scheme issue 🍸

Artwork by María Jesús Contreras, who has created a dreamy cover loosely inspired by Auguste Renoir’s painting, Luncheon of the Boating Party 👒

Available to pre-order: lwlies.imbmsubscriptions.com/preorder

Hallow Road review – heavily signposted horror Rosamund Pike and Matthew Rhys navigate parental fears in Babak Anvari’s gripping yet shaky psychological thriller.

My review of Hallow Road lwlies.com/reviews/hall... out now in cinemas. @lwlies.com

Last night I went to see Insane Asylum Seekers at Bush Theatre. It’s such a beautiful and personal take on the British-Iraqi refugee experience. Written by Laith Elzubaidi, this one man show stars Tommy Sim’aan who turns in a remarkable performance. www.bushtheatre.co.uk/event/insane...

😊

The Wedding Banquet review – an unexpected delight Anchored by a talented cast clearly having the time of their lives, Andrew Ahn’s new banquet is a bit of a treat.

I was quite sceptical about a remake of Ang Lee’s The Wedding Banquet but Andrew Ahn’s modern reimagining is quite lovely! Great review by @lauravenning.bsky.social lwlies.com/reviews/the-... and totally agree that Han Gi-chan is a real discovery 💕

Final Destination: Bloodlines review – Death’s back, funnier and nastier than ever A satisfying redux for the horror franchise, with bizarre death scenes in spectacular IMAX and tiny, affecting meditations on mortality

And here’s @annodracula.bsky.social great review of Final Destination: Bloodlines www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/fina... 🖤

Finished reading the book and now I’m really missing Birmingham 💙

Sinners has officially joined Letterboxd’s One Million Watched Club.

It becomes the fastest 2025 release to hit one million on Letterboxd.

Yesterday afternoon I went to see the new Lilo & Stitch for work and was definitely the oldest person in the room…then in the evening I went to see Miki Berenyi Trio for fun and was the youngest person there. Existential crisis begins…

It’s magnificent!! 🪵🪵

Sinners review: A Gory Genre-Defying Good Time! Ryan Coogler’s Sinners is a bold, genre-blurring Southern gothic horror that fuses cultural history with wild, visceral imagination. Our review...

I loved Sinners. My review www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/sinn... @scifinow.bsky.social Out in cinemas now.

Lots of new cinemas are screening HOLY COW from today 🐮

"So alive you may believe you could even reach out and touch it - or eat it." – ★★★★ The Times

“How many trains can I cry on in a lifetime?” Hard relate