Writing

A lot of my writing is in print, including the following releases:

• The House of Mirth BFI Blu-ray – Essay
• Priest BFI Blu-ray – Essay
• Terence Davies Screenplays, Volume 2: Adaptations – Introduction
• Terence Davies Screenplays, Volume 1: Autobiography and Biography – Introduction
• Great Expectations: Post-War British Cinema (1945-1960) – Chapters on Jill Craigie and Charles Crichton
• Palindromes Radiance Blu-ray – Video Essay, ‘Todd Solondz and His Cinema of Cruelty’
• Chantal Akerman Collection Vol. 1: 1967-1978 – Essay on Akerman’s INSAS films
• Watership Down BFI Boxset – Essay on Richard Adams
• Big Smoke, Big Screen – Chapter on Blitz-torn London in post-war British cinema
• The Magnificent, Magical, Marvelous Mrs. Maisel: The Authorised Companion to the Making of the Iconic Series – Various chapters
• Mean Streets Second Sight Boxset – Essay on catholicism in the films of Martin Scorsese
• Doctor Who: 60 Moments in Time – Two chapters
• Screen Britain – Essay on Mandy (1952) and autism
• Bluebeard’s Castle BFI Blu-ray – Essays on Hein Heckroth, Norman Foster, and Ana Raquel Satre
• Western Approaches BFI Blu-ray – Essay on Jack Cardiff
• EO BFI Blu-ray – Essay on short films
• She Dies Tomorrow Radiance Blu-ray – Essay
• The Trial of Joan of Arc BFI Blu-ray – Two essays
• The Witch Second Sight Boxset – Essay on the score
• Jules et Jim BFI Blu-ray – Essay on ménages à trois in the Nouvelle Vague
• The Camera is Ours BFI Boxset – Essay on Ruby Grierson

Writing available online:

• Wicked: For Good Review – Sight & Sound
• Screen Two at 40: A Generation of Women
• Wicked: For Good Jon M. Chu Interview – Curzon Journal
• Nuremberg Review – Little White Lies
• Screen Two at 40 – BBC Canvas
• 10 great Jane Austen adaptations – Sight & Sound
• On The Rehearsal – Plinth
• ‘We haven’t gone beyond her’: How the plays of Sarah Kane sent shockwaves through the 1990s – BBC Culture
• James Gunn Returns Superman to His Roots – Curzon Journal
• Cinema’s Tricky Relationship with Vikings – Curzon Journal
• Nikita Kadan Interview – Collectors Agenda
• Miguel Gomes Interview – A Rabbit’s Foot
• Searching for Meaning: Terrence Malick Book Review – Times Literary Supplement
• Screen Two at 40
• Credited at Last: Mary C. McCall Jr. Book Review – Times Literary Supplement
• Wicked Review – Sight & Sound
• Alan Hollinghurst: The writer whose novels unbutton the sex lives of Britain’s gay social elite – BBC Culture
• How The Stimming Pool creates space for an autistic cinema – Sight & Sound
• On Relaxed Screenings: why context matters – Sight & Sound
• Liliane Lijn Interview – Collectors Agenda
• The Music Lovers: how art reigns supreme in Ken Russell’s orgiastic Tchaikovsky biopic – Sight & Sound
• Mermaids on screen – BBC
• Aqualillies Interview – Maybourne
• Last Movies Review – Times Literary Supplement
• Tuesday & The Symbolic Power of Birds – Curzon Journal
• Agnieszka Holland Interview – A Rabbit’s Foot
• Agnieszka Holland’s Political Activism – Curzon Journal
• Better than Her – Plinth
• Orlando My Political Biography – Picturehouse Recommends
• Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry – Reclaim the Frame
• Museums should do more to cater to autistic people – Apollo
• Love Lies Bleeding’s Katy O’Brian on bodybuilding, breakdowns and burning love – A Rabbit’s Foot
• The birds still sing at Auschwitz: on Jonathan Glazer’s ‘The Zone of Interest’ – A Rabbit’s Foot
• Thomas J Price Interview – Collectors Agenda
• Bluebeard: Why the grimmest of fairytales is still all-too-relevant – BBC Culture
• Hirokazu Koreeda Interview – Little White Lies
• What might a more inclusive film programming world look like? – Little White Lies
• From Casablanca to Moonlight: the evolution of the romantic film score – Composer
• Leave The World Behind Review – Empire
• Maestro Review – Little White Lies
• Perfect Days & The Equalising Power of the Tokyo Toilet – Curzon Journal
• Maestro – Picturehouse Recommends
• Is It Possible to Know the Truth in Anatomy of a Fall? – Curzon Journal
• The Holdovers Review – Little White Lies
• Eileen Review – Flicks
• Is There Anybody Out There? Review – Sight & Sound
• Best Movie Sex Scenes – GQ
• Peeping Tom Essay – Flicks
• Doctor Who’s queer representation is just what the Doctor ordered – RadioTimes
• Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Interviews Part Five – The Guardian
• Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Interviews Part Four – The Guardian
• Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Interviews Part Three – The Guardian
• Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Interviews Part Two – The Guardian
• Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Interviews Part One – The Guardian
• Marina Abramović Interview: Is she still the most dangerous woman in art? – BBC Culture
• Doctor Jekyll Review – Little White Lies
• Abstracting Evil: Oppenheimer and Doctor Atomic – VAN Magazine
• Put on your Red Shoes and dance: the enduring euphoria of Powell & Pressburger – Little White Lies
• Thelma Schoonmaker Interview – Little White Lies
• Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour Review – Little White Lies
• The Lesson Review – Empire
• A Worldlier Class of Flapper: Ursula Parrott Review – Times Literary Supplement
• Ira Sachs and Franz Rogowski Interview – PinkNews
• The Hours at 25: The book that changed how we see Virginia Woolf – BBC Culture
• On Relaxed Screenings: neurodivergence and sound at the cinema – Sight & Sound
• Carrie Mae Weems: Reflections For Now – Plinth
• The Idol Review – Empire
• La Syndicaliste Review – Little White Lies
• On orgasmic cake and The Matrix Reloaded at 20 – Girls On Tops
• Pretty Red Dress Review – Flicks
• Greatest Days Review – Little White Lies
• Why watch Film On Film? – Little White Lies
• Asteroid City Preview – Picturehouse Recommends
• The Little Mermaid & The Legacy of the Aquamusical – Curzon Journal
• It demands the elders to confront their past and support their children: Memory Box, a trawl through the Lebanese Civil War – My Dylarama
• Love Again Review – Empire
• How Polite Society Reframes Intergenerational Tension – Curzon Journal
• Brainwashed Review – Little White Lies
• University Challenge was biased towards Oxbridge when I worked on it, and it still is. But there’s a fix – The Guardian
• The Three Musketeers: D’Artagnan Review – Empire
• Mia Hansen-Løve is Found – Girls On Tops
• Sick of Myself Review – Flicks
• Mia Goth isn’t in Kansas anymore – Plinth
• Crooked, But Never Common: The Films of Preston Sturges Review – Times Literary Supplement
• Sunset Boulevard BFI Classic Review – Times Literary Supplement
• Cinematic Investigations: At the Picturehouse with Wittgenstein – Little White Lies
• Electric Malady Review – Empire
• Why non-disabled audiences must play their part in ‘busting the bias’ – Sight & Sound
• 10 Great Ballet Films – Sight & Sound
• Asif Kapadia on Creature Interview – Sight & Sound
• Creature Review – Little White Lies
• Learning to Listen with Women Talking – Curzon Journal
• Women Talking Review – Little White Lies
• Is Lydia Tár As Radical As She Thinks She Is? – Curzon Journal
• Enys Men Review – Flicks
• Spin Me Round Review – Flicks
• Saint Omer Review – Empire
• Finding Connection in the Films of Chantal Akerman – Curzon Journal
• Rob Simonsen Interview – Composer
• Corsage Review – Flicks
• Magdalena Abakanowicz Exhibition – Plinth
• Funny Ha Ha and Mumblecore Anniversary Essay – Flicks
• The Menu & The Politics of Fine Dining – Curzon Journal
• The Greatest Film of All Time: Reintroducing Jeanne Dielman – Plinth
• In the Beginning was the Image: An Interview with Peter Greenaway – Sight & Sound
• No Bears: Jafar Panahi’s Struggle for Freedom – Curzon Journal
• Wednesday Review – Flicks
• The English Review – Flicks
• The Wonder Review – Little White Lies
• Carolee Schneemann: The artist whose naked body was a canvas – BBC Culture
• Neptune Frost Review – Empire
• Ben Lovett Interview – Composer
• New Nigerian Cinema – Sony
• Fashionable film: Mrs Harris Goes To Paris and other covetable couture in cinema – Flicks
• Mrs Harris Goes to Paris Review – Flicks
• How soon is too soon? The fallacy of British TV satirising painful recent events – Flicks
• Dominic Lewis Interview – Composer
• A Lesbian Utopia: 30 Years of A League of Their Own – Girls On Tops
• And Man Created Woman: Don’t Worry Darling’s Flawed Feminism – Girls On Tops
• Jessica Jones on scoring The Tinder Swindler and her meteoric rise – Composer
• After Yang Interview – Plinth
• Milton Avery Exhibition – Plinth
• Orphan: First Kill Review – Flicks
• She Will Review – Flicks
• Emily Review – Empire
• Appearing on University Challenge was terrifying; now I’m setting the questions – The Guardian
• Queer Cultural Moments – GQ
• Persuasion Review – Empire
• In Praise of Isabel Sandoval – Little White Lies
• Donna Review – Empire
• Everything I Know About Love Review – Flicks
• Men Review – Flicks
• A Lesson in Hansen-Løve with Vicky Krieps: A Bergman Island Conversation – Girls On Tops
• Bergman Island Review – Little White Lies
• Dreamachine Essay – Plinth
• For The Record Exhibition – Plinth
• Cinematic Memoir: How Terence Davies incorporates his own queer history into Benediction – Curzon Journal
• Downton Abbey: A New Era Review – Flicks
• Heartstopper Review – Flicks
• Cyrano Review – Flicks
• We’re All Going to the World’s Fair Review – Little White Lies
• Laura Wandel Interview – Little White Lies
• Great Freedom Review – Little White Lies
• Euphoria Essay – Plinth
• Ali & Ava Review – Flicks
• This Is Going to Hurt Review – Flicks
• Chloe Review – Flicks
• Rules of the Game Review – Flicks
• The Horror of the Body in Julia Ducournau’s Titane – Plinth
• Rejection, Survival, Love: Julia Ducournau on Titane – Girls On Tops
• Derek Jarman Exhibition – Plinth
• The Matrix Resurrections Review – Little White Lies
• Céline Sciamma Interview – Little White Lies
• Quant Review – Little White Lies
• Revolutionaries: Inside the Trans Sex Revolution on Screen – MASSIVE
• Jane par Agnès par Charlotte: The Matrilineal Cinema of Jane Birkin – MUBI Notebook
• Yellow Submarine Essay – Flicks
• Last Night in Soho Review – Flicks
• Spencer Review – Flicks
• No Time to Die Review – Flicks
• The Suicide Squad Review – Little White Lies
• Jill Craigie: The Woman Who Did – Sight & Sound
• Sylvia Plath: Will the poet always be defined by her death? – BBC Culture
• A Most Peculiar Mademoiselle! Looking at Belle 30 Years On – Girls On Tops
• Earwig and the Witch Review – Little White Lies
• It’s time to rethink the established film canon – Little White Lies
• Processing Young Women: On Content Warnings and Female Trauma On Screen – Girls On Tops
• The Other Lamb Review – Little White Lies
• A Perfectly Normal Family Review – Little White Lies
• 23 Walks Review – Little White Lies
• Little Girl Review – Little White Lies
• Delphine Seyrig and the best year ever – Little White Lies
• Charlie Kaufman’s fast-food obsession – Little White Lies
• Hope Gap Review – Little White Lies
• Rising Phoenix Review – Little White Lies
• Amy Seimetz Interview – Little White Lies
• She Dies Tomorrow Review – Little White Lies
• Ava Review – Little White Lies
• Perfumes Review – Little White Lies
• Wild at Heart remains an empowering depiction of female trauma – Little White Lies
• An Easy Girl Review – Little White Lies
• Pinocchio Review – Little White Lies
• My Rembrandt Review – Little White Lies
• Papicha Review – Little White Lies
• Again Once Again Review – Little White Lies
• Netflix’s Disclosure is just the start for trans-positive representation – Little White Lies
• Alone, Together: Anticlimactic Searching in the Cinema of Mia Hansen-Løve – Girls On Tops
• Is de-ageing technology the way forward for the time-spanning epic? – Little White Lies
• Zeroville Review – Little White Lies
• Honeyland Review – Little White Lies
• Girl, A Fantastic Woman and cinema’s difficult period of transition – Little White Lies
• The Kindergarten Teacher Review – Little White Lies
• Under the Wire Review – Little White Lies
• Spitfire Review – Little White Lies
• The flawed logic of constructing gender in film – Little White Lies
• Vertigo Restoration Review – Little White Lies
• Ex Libris: The New York Public Library Review – Little White Lies
• Summer 1993 Review – Little White Lies
• How Hollywood confronted the Vietnam veteran experience – Little White Lies
• The Opera House Review – Little White Lies
• Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda Review – Little White Lies
• Flicks Reviews and Articles
• Varsity Reviews and Articles
• Screen Rant News Articles