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Xuanlin Tham

(They/Them)
United Kingdom
writer, curator, pervert. 'REVOLUTIONARY DESIRES' out now with @404Ink ❤️‍🔥

Xuanlin Tham’s Journalist Portfolio

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Love Life - first-look review

Love Life - first-look review

Little White Lies (magazine) — Love Life - first-look review Little White Lies was established in 2005 as a bi-monthly print magazine committed to championing great movies and the talented people who make them. Combining cutting-edge design, illustration and journalism, we've been described as being "at the vanguard of the independent publishing movement."

Don't Worry Darling is a finely manicured, unsettling movie

Don't Worry Darling is a finely manicured, unsettling movie

i-D — Finally, Harry Styles' movie lead debut has arrived. Here's our review.

Review: Bones and All is a heartsick and gentle cannibal nightmare starring Timothée Chalamet

Review: Bones and All is a heartsick and gentle cannibal nightmare starring Timothée Chalamet

i-D — The new Timmy and Luca link-up just premiered at Venice Film Festival. Here's our review.

Venice Film Festival 2022: White Noise Review - The Skinny

Venice Film Festival 2022: White Noise Review - The Skinny

The Skinny — Many films attempt to answer one of the biggest, most existential questions we face: how on earth is there so much to look at in a supermarket? Aisles and aisles of dish sponges, cereals, juices, people pushing shopping carts, their hair - why is their hair so great?

Husband - first-look review

Husband - first-look review

Little White Lies (magazine) — Husband - first-look review Little White Lies was established in 2005 as a bi-monthly print magazine committed to championing great movies and the talented people who make them. Combining cutting-edge design, illustration and journalism, we've been described as being "at the vanguard of the independent publishing movement."

Neon Spring - first-look review

Neon Spring - first-look review

Little White Lies (magazine) — Neon Spring - first-look review Little White Lies was established in 2005 as a bi-monthly print magazine committed to championing great movies and the talented people who make them. Combining cutting-edge design, illustration and journalism, we've been described as being "at the vanguard of the independent publishing movement."

The Narrow Road - first-look review

The Narrow Road - first-look review

Little White Lies (magazine) — The Narrow Road - first-look review Little White Lies was established in 2005 as a bi-monthly print magazine committed to championing great movies and the talented people who make them. Combining cutting-edge design, illustration and journalism, we've been described as being "at the vanguard of the independent publishing movement."

Kim Knowles on EIFF retrospective Reframing the Gaze: The Skinny

Kim Knowles on EIFF retrospective Reframing the Gaze: The Skinny

The Skinny — Fifty years ago, Edinburgh International Film Festival hosted its highly influential Women's Event. Helmed by revolutionary film theorists Laura Mulvey and Claire Johnston alongside EIFF programmer and future Artistic Director Lynda Myles, it was the first major celebration of work by women filmmakers by a European film festival.

Interview: Julia Ducournau, Agathe Rousselle: Why Palme d'Or-winning horror Titane is all about love

Interview: Julia Ducournau, Agathe Rousselle: Why Palme d'Or-winning horror Titane is all about love

The Skinny — A girl with a titanium plate in her skull. Dancers pressing themselves against the bodies of automobiles, metal and flesh drenched seductively in neon light. An erotic collision between woman and car. A match to petrol as the final flourish to a killing spree.

Memoria review: a cerebral and elusive puzzle - The Skinny

Memoria review: a cerebral and elusive puzzle - The Skinny

The Skinny — The films of Apichatpong Weerasethakul are impossibly tender and beguilingly strange - reorienting the way we relate to the mundane, they heighten the unassuming magic of the everyday with a gentle surrealism. Memoria is possibly Weerasethakul's most sensorily transportative work yet, employing a cinematic language where what we hear takes full narrative precedence.

Bennedetta review: nunsploitation drama - The Skinny

Bennedetta review: nunsploitation drama - The Skinny

The Skinny — "Your worst enemy is your body," a nun tells a young Benedetta upon her arrival at a convent in Pescia. "Best not to feel too at home with it." Oddly, however, Benedetta's relationship with faith is rather bodily: while other nuns at the convent speak of miracles in the abstract, Benedetta seems to have Jesus on the spiritual 17th century equivalent of speed dial.

Metamorphosis: The Queer Mythology of Titane - MASSIVE CINEMA

Metamorphosis: The Queer Mythology of Titane - MASSIVE CINEMA

massive-cinema.com — Finally cooling off from this year's incendiary London Film Festival, we take a look at one of this year's most challenging and exciting films: Titane. A cyborg odyssey exploring gender and queerness, it has much to say about our relationship with the non-human world and our own bodies - here's Xuanlin Tham to hold our hand through it.

Titane review: visceral French thriller - The Skinny

Titane review: visceral French thriller - The Skinny

The Skinny — Director: Julia Ducournau If you've heard anything about Julia Ducournau's Palme d'Or-winning Titane, it probably sounded a little insane. Dancer-slash-serial killer Alexia (an incandescent debut performance by Agathe Rousselle) becomes pregnant after having sex with a Cadillac; fleeing from police, she adopts the identity of Adrien, the missing son of fireman Vincent (a stoic Vincent Lindon).

Faceless: Hong Kong protest documentary - The Skinny

Faceless: Hong Kong protest documentary - The Skinny

The Skinny — The summer of 2019: the citizens of Hong Kong pour into the streets dressed in black, their faces hidden behind masks. Two million voices protest against the Extradition Bill that permits offenders to face trial in China with a 99.9% chance of conviction. "Withdraw the Extradition Bill! Give us back our freedom!"