Hustlers

I reviewed Lorene Scafaria’s true-life crime comedy Hustlers for Sight & Sound. It’s fabulous, and it’s out this weekend. Advertisements

Betty on the BBC

The London Film Festival is screening a newly discovered Betty Balfour film this year, which is reason enough for me…

A real pleasure to write the essay for this beautiful Indicator box set of Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich’s…

The BBC Proms are in full flow. On Friday, John Wilson conducted a selection of music from the Warner Brothers…

For the Guardian, I wrote about how Hitchcock tackled sexpionage in his Mata Hari movie Notorious, which is re-released this…

In the September 2019 issue of Sight & Sound I wrote … a lot. First, a big essay on the…

I went to the San Francisco Silent Film Festival again this year, and on my return I wrote this report…

Musician Frank Turner’s new album, No Man’s Land, is all about telling women’s stories from history. There’a a podcast of…

I reviewed Harry Wootliff’s heartbreaking romance Only You for Sight & Sound and they made it Film of the Week. It’s…

In the August 2019 issue of Sight & Sound, I reviewed the wonderful British romance Only You, as well as…