Katherine McLaughlin
@mskmclaughlin.bsky.social
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
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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...
www.bfi.org.uk
Morning! I spoke to India Donaldson about her brilliant debut feature Good One www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so... for @sightsoundmag.bsky.social
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.
November 14, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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.
Happy Halloween 🎃 Great Frankenstein issue out now.
October 31, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Happy Halloween 🎃 Great Frankenstein issue out now.
My review of BUGONIA www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/bugo... @scifinow.bsky.social Out now in cinemas.
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...
www.scifinow.co.uk
October 31, 2025 at 6:42 AM
My review of BUGONIA www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/bugo... @scifinow.bsky.social Out now in cinemas.
My review of Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere list.co.uk/news/springs... @thelistuk.bsky.social
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
list.co.uk
October 31, 2025 at 6:41 AM
My review of Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere list.co.uk/news/springs... @thelistuk.bsky.social
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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...
Roofman review: lwlies.com/reviews/roof...
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.
lwlies.com
October 17, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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...
Roofman review: lwlies.com/reviews/roof...
The List Magazine is turning 40 in October! So I’ve been going through back issues recently.
September 25, 2025 at 7:21 AM
The List Magazine is turning 40 in October! So I’ve been going through back issues recently.
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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.
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.
September 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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.
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.
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.
September 24, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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.
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).
June 7, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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).
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.
June 1, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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.
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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…
May 23, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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…
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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
She speaks to @mskmclaughlin.bsky.social about depicting the complexities of motherhood and female friendship
May 23, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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
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!
May 23, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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!
Really enjoyed The Phoenician Scheme especially Michael Cera! Great @lwlies.com review lwlies.com/reviews/the-... Out in cinemas 23rd May
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.
lwlies.com
May 20, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Really enjoyed The Phoenician Scheme especially Michael Cera! Great @lwlies.com review lwlies.com/reviews/the-... Out in cinemas 23rd May
I’m not at #cannes2025 because tbh I can’t afford to go but I have written a review..!
May 19, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I’m not at #cannes2025 because tbh I can’t afford to go but I have written a review..!
Reposted by Katherine McLaughlin
“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...
@mskmclaughlin.bsky.social speaks to Good One director India Donaldson www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
“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...
www.bfi.org.uk
May 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM
“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...
@mskmclaughlin.bsky.social speaks to Good One director India Donaldson www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
Reposted by Katherine McLaughlin
My @observer review of India Donaldson’s impressive debut, Good One, in cinemas now. observer.co.uk/culture/film...
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
observer.co.uk
May 17, 2025 at 1:23 PM
My @observer review of India Donaldson’s impressive debut, Good One, in cinemas now. observer.co.uk/culture/film...
Morning! I spoke to India Donaldson about her brilliant debut feature Good One www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so... for @sightsoundmag.bsky.social
“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...
www.bfi.org.uk
May 18, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Morning! I spoke to India Donaldson about her brilliant debut feature Good One www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so... for @sightsoundmag.bsky.social
Reposted by Katherine McLaughlin
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
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
May 16, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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
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
My review of Hallow Road lwlies.com/reviews/hall... out now in cinemas. @lwlies.com
Hallow Road review – heavily signposted horror
Rosamund Pike and Matthew Rhys navigate parental fears in Babak Anvari’s gripping yet shaky psychological thriller.
lwlies.com
May 16, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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...
May 16, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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...
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 💕
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.
lwlies.com
May 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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 💕
Reposted by Katherine McLaughlin
Sinners has officially joined Letterboxd’s One Million Watched Club.
It becomes the fastest 2025 release to hit one million on Letterboxd.
It becomes the fastest 2025 release to hit one million on Letterboxd.
May 11, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Sinners has officially joined Letterboxd’s One Million Watched Club.
It becomes the fastest 2025 release to hit one million on Letterboxd.
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…
May 10, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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…