I reviewed The Booksellers, a tactile documentary about the antiquarian book trade, for Empire.
About Arzner
As Dance, Girl, Dance is released on UK Criterion this week, I wrote a short introduction to the work of…
David Lynch Theater
For the Guardian’s “What I am really watching …” series, I discussed my rather quaint addiction to David Lynch’s laidback…
The evolution of Un Chien Andalou
I appeared on the excellent Evolution of Horror podcast hosted by Mike Muncer to discuss the wonderful surrealist film Un…
S&S Summer 2020
In the Sight & Sound double issue for Summer 2020 I reviewed the new Criterion Blu-ray of Dorothy Arzner’s Dance,…
Hollywood and history
I wrote this feature for the Guardian’s G2 section about how Ryan Murphy’s Netflix series Hollywood manipulates film history.
Frances Marion for Criterion
This month, the Criterion Channel is streaming a slate of films written by the wonderful Frances Marion. I wrote this…
Nothing Fancy
I reviewed the foodie documentary Diana Kennedy: Nothing Fancy for the new issue of Empire.
Finally Fellini
For the Guardian’s series in which film writers tackle the classics they have never seen, I watched Fellini’s 8½. Here’s…
I married a final girl
I was absolutely thrilled this week to appear on the fabulous Final Girls podcast with Anna Bogutskaya, to discuss I…
