I reviewed the new book Silent Features: The Development of Silent Feature Films 1914-1934, edited by Steve Neale, for the…
Peterloo on NPR
In time for the US release of Mike Leigh’s Peterloo, I spoke to NPR for this segment on the film…
Doppelgängers
Following the release of Jordan Peele’s Us, I wrote this essay on doppelgängers in literature and film for new site…
Hippfest 2019
The Hippodrome Silent Film Festival is very special indeed. I wrote this report from its ninth edition for Sight &…
S&S May 2019
In the May 2019 issue of Sight & Sound I wrote about the early career of Czech actress Anny Ondra.…
The grave of Georges Méliès
For the Guardian, I wrote about a crowdfunding campaign to restore Georges Méliès’s grave in the Père Lachaise cemetery in…
30-Second Cinema
Very proud of this beautiful book and the fantastic writers who contributed to it. I edited 30-Second Cinema, an illustrated…
S&S April 2019
In the April 2019 issue of Sight & Sound, I reviewed Gwenda Young’s excellent new biography of Clarence Brown. I also…
NWR @ RA
I interviewed Nicolas Winding Refn for the Spring 2019 issue of RA Magazine, ahead of his Friends Week event at…
Bad press
Pegged to the new series Flack, I wrote about how PRs, publicists and press agents are depicted on film and…
