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Introducing Huck’s new Film section, powered by our sister magazine Little White Lies. Spotlighting some of the best stories where film meets counterculture

The queer polymath who pioneered ’60s counterculture

Steven Arnold — An artist, filmmaker, photographer and protégé of Salvador Dalí, Steven Arnold had many guises, mastering new mediums at will. A new film looks back at his incredible legacy.

  • Art
  • Miss Rosen

Why thousands of mysterious murders still haunt Mexico

Dark Suns — Over the last few years, tens of thousands of Mexicans have gone missing, with many now presumed dead. A new documentary tries to understand why their stories aren’t being told.

  • Film
  • Daniel Dylan Wray

What Netflix did next: crazed stalkers & Harry Styles fanfic

Are you still watching? — Writer Megan Nolan bravely ventures into the latest Netflix releases, in an attempt to figure out if anything is even worth our time anymore. This week, it’s After (middling, fine) and Secret Obsession (cheap, fun).

  • Film
  • Megan Nolan

The quiet resistance of NFL Star Marshawn Lynch

Silence is power — Lynch: A History is a new documentary which examines race, masculinity, media and protest at the turn of the millennium.

  • Film
  • Miss Rosen

What Netflix did next: more Noah Centineo & Adam Sandler

Are you still watching? — Writer Megan Nolan bravely ventures into the latest Netflix releases, in an attempt to figure out if anything is even worth our time anymore. This week, it’s The Week Of (bad) and Swiped (arguably one of the most demented films ever made).

  • Film
  • Megan Nolan

Filmmaker Lulu Wang talks laughing through the tears

The Farewell — The writer-director’s tragicomic drama begins with words ‘Based on an actual lie’. Ahead of the film’s US release, she discusses adapting a real-life fib into one of 2019’s most buzzed-about films – one that finds laughter among the melancholy.

  • Film
  • Josh Slater-Williams

What Netflix did next: a woke remake & a murder comedy (?)

Are you still watching? — Writer Megan Nolan bravely ventures into Netflix’s new releases, in an attempt to figure out if anything is even worth our time anymore. This week, Samuel Jackson makes his return as Shaft, and Scarlett Johannson kills a stripper.

  • Film
  • Megan Nolan

Behind the scenes on Steve Bannon’s campaign trail

Through the looking glass — Filmmaker Alison Klayman followed the controversial strategist for over a year in her new film, The Brink: ‘It was genuinely very difficult. Everything is incredibly last minute, his organisation is not professional at all.’

  • Film
  • Thomas Curry

Marianne Ihlen: the woman and muse behind Leonard Cohen

Words of Love — Filmmaker Nick Broomfield discusses his new documentary, Marianne and Leonard, which follows one of the most enduring love affairs in music history.

  • Film
  • Daniel Dylan Wray

What Netflix did next: mothers, murder & human extinction

Are you still watching? — Writer Megan Nolan bravely ventures into Netflix’s new releases, in an attempt to figure out if anything is even worth our time anymore. This week, it’s solid sci-fi I Am Mother and Adam Sandler’s Murder Mystery.

  • Film
  • Megan Nolan

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