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Brisk film talk with a critic’s edge.
Truth & Movies pairs current cinema criticism with relaxed, informed conversation from the Little White Lies orbit. Episodes move from quick personal catch-ups into reviews, festival previews, interviews, and reassessments of older films.
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Truth & Movies is a weekly film conversation from the Little White Lies world, shaped by reviews, interviews, festival previews, and recurring Film Club reassessments. The mood is informal, but the criticism is rarely casual. Episodes often begin with chat from the table: a magazine issue going to print, Cannes plans, industry turbulence, Oscar arguments, travel stories, or the relief of catching up before the next deadline. Then the discussion tightens. A release is summarized, judged, reconsidered, compared, and sometimes challenged from another angle. Recent episodes cover a wide spread: Lee Cronin’s The Mummy, Miroirs No. 3, The Blue Trail, The Drama, Fuze, Project Hail Mary, Ready or Not 2: Here I Come, Resurrection, Lollipop, and How to Train Your Dragon. The archive-minded side matters too. Film Club brings back Hell or High Water, The Martian, Stalker, Bride of Frankenstein, and Ladybird Ladybird, giving the show a rhythm beyond the weekly release calendar. It can be warm. It can also be severe. When a film seems chaotic or underpowered, the panel says so plainly, then usually tries to locate why it failed rather than just scoring the wreckage. That analytical habit is the show’s strength. Discussions of Jim Jarmusch linger on pauses, dead air, coolness, family distance, and the strange magnetism of people sitting around and talking. Christian Petzold prompts talk about ordinary stories, withheld information, and images doing the work that exposition refuses. Resurrection opens a route into long takes, segmented structure, hand-dyed-film echoes, spectacle, and endurance. The show also leaves space for guests and special subjects, including Jean-Pierre Jeunet on Amelie and Dr. Clive Nwaka discussing a boxing season at the BFI. Its best moments feel like critics thinking in real time, with enough wit and disagreement to keep the analysis alive.
Made for: For listeners who follow new releases but also want older films, festival context, and craft-focused criticism in the same feed. It especially suits film-magazine readers, cinephiles, and anyone who enjoys opinionated roundtable discussion.
What sets it apart: The show sets current reviews beside Film Club reassessments and industry context, so a weekly release rarely sits in isolation. Its tone is conversational enough to wander, but precise enough to notice pauses, edits, structure, and visual ideas.
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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Truth & Movies traces strong reactions back to the images, edits, performances and structural choices that produced them.
Truth & Movies turns film criticism into a lively working conversation, with Leila Lateef and a rotating group moving between new releases, retrospective Film Club choices and occasional preview or filmmaker-focused editions.
The Bride! gets a bruising verdict; Stalker (1979) gets another look; you get room to disagree.
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A candid film-club episode where The Mummy meets Petzold's uneasy family mystery.
Truth in Movies is at its sharpest when it sits with a blunt response to Lee Cronin's The Mummy, treated here as a resurrected cursed past and a throwback built around a straight curse-and-myth story.
A loose, personal Jarmusch discussion built around silence, cool, and recurring habits.
This single-episode review frames a Jarmusch special as a discussion of how his silences, hangouts, and particular idea of cool can settle into a viewer's sense of self.
A wedding revelation turns thought, behavior, and judgment into the episode's live question.
Truth in Movies is sharpest when it sits with The Drama's central disturbance: what a revelation does to the present tense. A wedding speech changes under the pressure of a newly disclosed detail, and the conversation follows the uncomfortable idea that an imagined act can alter…
A wide-ranging film conversation finds its sharpest edge in Resurrection's strange, digitally hand-shaped visual world.
The episode opens with Oscar talk before settling into Resurrection, Bea Gahan's dreamy science-fiction epic. That is where it finds its best shape, following the film's digitally emulated hand-dyeing, its segment-by-segment visual shifts and a hallucinatory long take with real…
A brisk autopsy of The Bride!'s big ideas, chaotic editing, and baffling creative choices.
Truth in Movies approaches The Bride! with curiosity first and disbelief close behind, following a response to a film presented as packed with ideas but weakened by chaotic editing.
A lively forward look at upcoming films, led by sharp discussion of Benny Safdie, Dwayne Johnson, and Marty Supreme.
Truth and Movies uses a quiet release week to look ahead, shifting into a looser preview of films the presenters are keen to see in the months to come.
A lively film conversation where Bridget Jones's parenting anxieties open onto romance, recognition, and cultural context.
Truth & Movies works best as a compact three-part episode: Bridget Jones returning around Valentine's Day, two Palestinian men looking for refuge in an unknown land, and a Film Club return to Divine Intervention.
Old listings, strange memories, better tangents.
Horror talk with the lights still on.
Messy movie talk with sharp teeth.
Alien fandom with teeth and memory.
Sharp horror talk with jokes left in.
Women-directed horror, reviewed with warmth and silliness.
The hosts discuss Bong Joon-ho's new film Mickey 17 and Rob Pattinson's earlier film The Rover on their movie podcast.
This episode of Truth in Movies features an interview with director Nadia Latif about her film The Man in My Basement, plus discussions of other films.
The hosts discuss three new film releases: The Monkey, I'm Still Here, and September Says, along with recent horror films and Sundance highlights.
Hosts Leila Latif, Fatima Sharif, and Karina Antrobus review three films on Truth & Movies.
Hosts Leila Latif, David Jenkins, and Hannah Strong preview upcoming films instead of covering awards season.
Truth & Movies: A Little White Lies Podcast opens with Leila Lateef, David Jenkins, and Elena Lezik comparing Lee Cronin’s The Mummy to Evil Dead Rise and calling this new film “a hard no” for them.
Truth & Movies devotes this episode to Jim Jarmusch’s Father, Mother, Sister, Brother, a triptych set in the northeast U.S., Dublin, and Paris with Tom Waits, Adam Driver, Charlotte Rampling, Cate Blanchett, Vicky Krieps, Indya Moore, and Luka Sabbat.
Truth & Movies opens with Leila Lateef, Yasmeen Kandil, and Hala Strong previewing The Drama, Fuse, and Hell or High Water, then briefly plugging Father, Mother, Sister, Brother by Jim Jarmusch.
A preview of the Cannes Film Festival, a revisit of Amelie with director Jean-Pierre Jeunet, and a discussion with Dr.
The hosts discuss upcoming movies Project Hail Mary and Ready or Not 2, and revisit The Martian on their film podcast.
Hosts Laila Lateef, Campbell A.
Hosts Laila Latif, Anna McKibbin, and Francesca Steele review Maggie Gyllenhaal's $100 million Frankenstein reimagining 'The Bride!' — which moved from Netflix to Warner Brothers amid budget chaos — and reach a near-consensus that despite strong performances from Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale and striking production design, the film is fatally incoherent, with Francesca calling it 'five movies in one' and Anna labelling the editing 'incompetent.' The episode then pivots to 'Sound of Falling,' German writer-director Masha Stilinski's debut about four women across a century haunted by the same rural household, which all three critics admire as bleak, visually accomplished, and formally smart.
The hosts discuss the live-action remake of How to Train Your Dragon, the film Lollipop about a family reuniting, and revisit Ladybird Ladybird on their film club segment.
Leila Teeth interviews directors Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein about the new Final Destination film at Cannes, discussing audience reactions and the franchise's legacy.