Yes, we’ve completed another issue of LWLies. It’s the Gone Baby Gone issue and the good news is that it’s a really good film, which is always helpful when you’re basing a whole magazine around it. If we were talking in the style of a press release, we’d say something like this:
LWLies 17 is out now, with the most authentic and passionate movie criticism on the market. John Maybury takes us to The Edge of Love; Alex Holdridge goes In Search of a Midnight Kiss; Woody Allen recounts Cassandra’s Dream; Barbet Schroeder plays Terror’s Advocate; and Bruce Weber whispers Let’s Get Lost. We feel the heat with Casey Affleck; take the lonely road with Amy Ryan; investigate the public face of the private eye; follow the highs and lows of Hollywood’s crime writers; make our interviewees sing like canaries; talk with the pros and ex-cons bringing art behind bars; and go nose to scar with Danny Trejo. All this plus exclusive interviews with some of cinema’s most wanted from Dario Argento to Zooey Deschanel via Roger Deakins, John Sayles, Bruce Weber and more.
If we talking normally we’d just something like, erm, the new issue is really good and you should go and buy it in a shop, or order it from our online shop or something. And sorry to (the lovely) Zooey Deschanel for making her look a bit weird on page 89.
Gone Baby Gone? Never thought i’d see a Ben Affleck movie on the cover of White Lies!
Written by clare84 on April 24th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
Neither did we. But it is genuinely pretty good. Killer ending.
Written by Matt on April 25th, 2008 at 9:06 am
You missed The Gigli Issue?
Written by max on April 25th, 2008 at 9:32 am
Ew. Ben Affleck. Ew.
Written by Graimito on April 25th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
Graimito — I think it’s perhaps a bit unfair to judge Ben Affleck the director based on his performance as Ben Affleck the unfortunate participant in Gigli…
I haven’t yet seen Gone Baby Gone, but from what I’ve heard it should be good. Plus I think it’s more Casey Affleck’s film than it is Ben.
Casey has always been my favourite Affleck.
Written by Graham on April 25th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
Ah, yeah, fair enough. I didn’t realise til I picked up the new issue yesterday that it’s a Ben Affleck DIRECTED film. Intriguing.
If anything, we should all breathe a collective sigh of relief, should this signal a permanent move from in front of to behind camera.
Written by Graimito on April 28th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
i don’t know. He was great as Obanion in Dazed and confused, also he was pretty good in Boiler room, Good will hunting, and also Hollywoodland. He’s just a bit hit and miss that’s all. Perhaps more miss than hit though.
Written by Jon on April 29th, 2008 at 10:25 am
Is it wrong to like Ben Affleck? Like, sinful? I think I may have committed a sin.
Written by Matt on April 29th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
I watched ‘the sum of all fears’ on saturday night (quiet one) and it was RUBBISH. affleck is still hot though.
Written by emma on April 29th, 2008 at 3:27 pm