Truth & Movies: A Little White Lies Podcast

Michael Leader, Hannah Strong and David Jenkins hit the road this week as Channing Tatum travels across America with a four-legged friend in Dog , then it's off to South Carolina in Film Club for the 2015 stripping sensation Magic Mike XXL . And finally, the team heads to Europe for news of all the hot new films at this year's Berlin Film Festival . Truth & Movies is the podcast from the film...

Regular host Michael Leader is back this week with film critics Ella Kemp and Kambole Campbell to discuss the recently Oscar-nominated animated documentary Flee , and Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy , by Oscar-nominated director Ryusuke Hamaguchi. And in Film Club, the 2008 animated war documentary, Waltz With Bashir . Truth & Movies is the podcast from the film experts at Little White Lies, wher...

Old friends reunite to perform dangerous actions that should not be tried at home…that’s right, this week on Truth & Movies, Leila Latif, Hannah Strong and Adam Woodward are all back to critique the new cinema releases!  First up, the latest feature length instalment from the wildly silly stunt team that took the world by storm, Jackass Forever . Then, Joanna Hogg’s followup to her semi a...

Host Michael Leader is joined by Little White Lies' own Hannah Strong and film critic and podcaster Anna Bogutskaya to discuss Pedro Almodóvar's latest film, Parallel Mothers - and we have an interview with the director himself! Plus, Romola Garai's directorial debut, Amulet , and in film club, an Almodóvar classic voted for by Little White Lies readers, All About My Mother . Truth & Movies is...

Host Michael Leader is back and joined by Little White Lies' own David Jenkins and podcaster and writer Nicole Davis to talk about Guillermo Del Toro's followup to award-winning The Shape of Water, Nightmare Alley , and Kenneth Branagh's autobiographical tale of his childhood, Belfast . Then in film club, the team head back to the 1990s for Guillermo Del Toro's first feature, Cronos . Truth &...

Our special guest host Leila Latif is joined by film critic Simran Hans and filmmaker Catherine Bray to discuss this week's cinema releases. First up, the fifth instalment in the long-running meta horror franchise, Scream . Next, Apichatpong Weerasethakul slows the pace with his latest film, Memoria , starring Tilda Swinton. And the team face their fears in Film Club for the 2000 parody horror com...

In this Truth & Movies we welcome Leila Latif as our guest-host extraordinaire who, along with Hannah and David, has organised a PTA meeting with some Licorice Pizza to keep them nourished. We also have Maggie Gyllenhaal's directorial debut The Lost Daughter, and in our special film club it's another Paul Thomas Anderson film, Punch-Drunk Love , recorded live earlier this week at the ever-exce...

For the final episode of the year on Truth & Movies, Michael Leader is joined by David Jenkins, Hannah Strong and Sophie Monks Kaufman to talk Titane , Julia Ducournau's explosive Palme D'Or-winning followup to 2016's Raw. Plus, Sophie talks to "France's answer to Tom Cruise", actor Vincent Lindon, about transforming himself for his role in Titane. Then it's time to discuss some of the highlig...

In this Truth & Movies we swing our way into the latest outing from Tom Holland's Spider-Man (and maybe some other Spider-Men too?), as well as George Clooney's latest directorial effort The Tender Bar and in our film club it's Satoshi Kon's festive favourite Tokyo Godfathers . Truth & Movies is the podcast from the film experts at Little White Lies, where along with selected colleagues an...

On this weeks' Truth & Movies, Michael is joined by Little White Lies editor David Jenkins and Truth & Movies producer Jake Cunningham to explore Steven Spielberg's new take on classic musical West Side Story . There's also Adam McKay's Don't Look Up , but will our team look down on it? And in film club, there's a gift exchange, as David and Jake share The Polar Express and Jack Frost with...

On this weeks' Truth & Movies, Michael is joined by our own Hannah Strong and guest Jack King to explore Mike Mills' latest film C'mon C'mon , as well as Paolo Sorrentino's The Hand of God and in our film club, we open up the advent calendar with The Shop Around the Corner Truth & Movies is the podcast from the film experts at Little White Lies, where along with selected colleagues and fri...

On this weeks' Truth & Movies, Michael is joined by Lwlies' Hannah Strong and critic Cheyenne Bunsie to talk about the latest release from one of cinema's most prolific, and best, directors - Ridley Scott's House Of Gucci - and the debut feature from cinema's newest auteur - Reggie Yates' Pirates . And in film club, it's Ridley Scott's star-studded but much maligned The Counsellor written by C...

On this weeks' Truth & Movies, Michael is joined by Lwlies' David Jenkins and critic Lillian Crawford to talk about one of the longest and best movies of the year - Ryusuke Hamaguchi's Drive My Car - and one of the shortest and best movies of the year - Céline Sciamma's Petite Maman . And in film club, it's back to 1980s New York for the original Ghostbusters . Truth & Movies is the podcas...

This week on Truth & Movies, Michael is joined by Lwlies' David Jenkins and film critic Elena Lazic to talk about Lin Manuel Miranda's Tick, Tick...Boom! Plus, new releases Cry Macho starring Clint Eastwood, and Amjad Abu Alala's Sudanese drama You Will Die at Twenty . And in film club, we're going back to '90s London for the rerelease of Mike Leigh's dark drama, Naked . Truth & Movies is...

This week on Truth & Movies, Michael is joined by Little White Lies' own Hannah Strong and film critic Leila Latif to talk about Chloe Zhao's Marvel mega movie, Eternals . Plus, Paul Schrader teams up with Oscar Isaac in The Card Counter , and in film club we're going back to 1980 for the recently restored Out of the Blue , directed by and starring Dennis Hopper. Truth & Movies is the podc...

In this Truth & Movies we’re taking a look at our second Edgar Wright film of the year, the time-warping thriller Last Night in Soho. As a companion to Wright’s Giallo inspired film, for our film club, we’re checking out Mario Bava’s early entry in the genre Blood and Black Lace. It’s not all dramatic screams and blue and red lighting though, but there’s still room for some dastardly deeds, as...

In this Truth & Movies we brave the harsh desert sands of Arrakis and join Timothée Chalamet and Co for the new blockbuster adaptation of Dune . We're also travelling to Ennui-sur-Blasé, the fictional French town at the centre of Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch , but in this symmetrical world, will our critics be perfectly aligned? And in our film club, we're taking a look back at cult sci-...

As the London Film Festival draws to a close for another year, host Michael is joined by Little White Lies' own Hannah Strong and Critic's Mentorship Programme participant Jojo Ajisafe, to talk about the festival films that have stuck with them, including First Feature Competition winner Playground , Sunderland Award jury recommendation Small Body , and Finnish drama Compartment No.6 . Truth &...

Buckle your seatbelts, it's a busy week on Truth & Movies! Host Michael Leader is joined by Hannah Strong and Rogan Graham to discuss Tom Hardy's second stint as Eddie Brock and Venom in Venom 2: Let There Be Carnage . Plus, Michael talks to Todd Haynes, one of our best directors working today, about his new documentary on the legendary rock band The Velvet Underground . And we're sticking wit...

In the third instalment of our diaries from the BFI London Film Festival, host Michael Leader is joined by Little White Lies' own Adam Woodward, and film critic Callie Petch, who is attending the festival via the Critic's Mentorship Programme. The team discuss Jane Campion's Gothic Western The Power of the Dog, and the much-speculated annual Surprise Film, which turned out to be Mike Mills' new he...

Continuing our diary entries from the BFI London Film Festival, our host Michael Leader and Little White Lies' Editor David Jenkins talk about the films that they think audiences should be seeing, both in the capital, and around the UK. In this episode they discuss the dazzling LFF opening gala The Harder They Fall , meditative caving documentary Il Buco and Mia Hansen Løve’s latest masterpiece, B...

In the first of our diary entries from the BFI London Film Festival our host Michael and Little White Lies' own Hannah Strong talk about the films that they think audiences should be seeing, both in the capital, and around the UK. In this episode they discuss Jacques Audiard's black and white Parisian drama Paris 13th District , Drive My Car , the first of two Ryusuke Hamaguchi films playing at th...

For this Truth & Movies we dust off the tuxedos for one last time, as we check out Daniel Craig's Bond swan song No Time To Die, and in our film club we turn to Sean Connery's final foray in 007's world with Never Say Never Again . All eyes aren't just on Bond though, also out this week is Kazik Radwanski's Anne at 13,000 ft , which offers a unique alternative to MI5's deadliest agent. Truth &...

For this Truth & Movies we dust off the tuxedos for one last time, as we check out Daniel Craig's Bond swan song No Time To Die, and in our film club we turn to Sean Connery's final foray in 007's world with Never Say Never Again . All eyes aren't just on Bond though, also out this week is Kazik Radwanski's Anne at 13,000 ft , which offers a unique alternative to MI5's deadliest agent. Truth &...

On Truth & Movies this time everybody's talking about Everybody's Talking About Jamie, the adaptation of the hit musical which arrives on Prime Video this week. We're also discussing new thriller Rose Plays Julie, from directors Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy, and in our film club we're going back twenty years for John Cameron-Mitchell's cult favourite Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Truth & M...