5 Websites I Visit

A magazine that I buy biannually (it is released every two months), Little White Lies is a great pop-culture infused film-fest with whip-smart reviews and smartly written articles, focusing on everything and anything to do with film.

One of the many themed issues of LWL's

Each issue focuses on a particular film being released the month the magazine is published, (for their most recent issue, The Skin I Live in is put on the operating table for a good dissection, featuring an interview from Director Pedro Almodovar.)

What is great about Little White Lies, though, is that if you don’t want to fork out a couple of quid to buy the issue when it is published, or it has sold out, a digital issue of the magazine will be printed on their website (for free!) a month after the physical edition has been released. This is a great interactive way to keep up with the Digital Age, and something that very few, if any, magazines have adopted.

Keeping in line with their smartly made magazines, Little White Lies’ website is yet another hub for film lovers everywhere; a real treat.

You can participate in film-chit chat on the Little White Lies blog where you are free to discuss reviews, cast and crew interviews, and much more. There is a great shop where you can buy the latest addition of the magazine, badges, or postcards of magazine covers – basically, it is a great website filled with everything a film fan could want.

The Film Experience, which started out as a Blogspot page and now has a .net URL, is one of the most followed film-related blogs on the internet.

Mostly based around Award seasons (in particular the Oscars), The Film Experience works in your usual review-a-film blog schitck, but adds frequent interesting and quirky articles into the mix such as the Best Shot series, where Nathaniel (the writer of The Film Experience), asks his readers to pick out the best shot of a certain film. Here, Nathaniel looks at A Streetcar Named Desire, a wonderful film that everyone should watch.

Tilda Swinton on the cover of D&C

Going back to magazines that I purchased, Dazed and Confused’s website is a great source for all things art-based. Though Dazed and Confused is a fashion magazine, they span all things arty – ranging from exhibitions, to books, music and film – both in magazine and online format.

Out of all the websites and blogs I browse through, Dazed and Confused’s website is visually the most unusual, fitting nicely into their art-based focus as a magazine. 

The downside to Dazed and Confused’s website is it’s interaction is limited to those that use Facebook and Twitter. Yes, the majority of internet users have a Facebook or Twitter account (and in a lot of cases, both), but for someone like me, who has neither accounts, it discriminates me from communicating with those that love Dazed and Confused as much as I do because I don’t get the option to comment in a normal blog factor.

This is a downside to the cheekily written Ultra Culture, too. Fronted by Charlie Lyne – a twenty year old blogger – Ultra Culture has now gained notoriety for being featured on BBC’s Film 2011, and taking no prisoners when he gets on the keyboard to writing.

Like with Dazed and Confused, Ultra Culture doesn’t have a comment system for the Ordinary Joe. Instead, to enter competitions on the site, you have to have a Facebook account to comment.

Lastly, we have teen-run The F Bomb, a site written by teenagers for the feminist community. (I have written posts for the site before, which was great!)

A mixture of fictional writings and articles, The F Bomb is a wonderful site for teenage feminists to find a voice; to speak about how popular culture - including the media 0 is affecting their lives, wherever they are in the world.  

So, those are my must-to destinations on the World Wide Web, what are yours?