Pre-code women for the Guardian

I wrote a feature for the Guardian about the relative freedoms afforded to female film stars on-screen in the Pre-code … More

1940s Hollywood melodramas

For the BFI, I took a look at 10 of the greatest Hollywood woman’s pictures of all time. First, fetch … More

I wrote this feature for the Guardian’s G2 section about how Ryan Murphy’s Netflix series Hollywood manipulates film history.

This month, the Criterion Channel is streaming a slate of films written by the wonderful Frances Marion. I wrote this … More

For the Guardian, I wrote about the campaign to name an alley in Hollywood after the slapstick directors who filmed … More

It’s no secret that I adore Cary Grant. The recent retrospective at the BFI set me to thinking about where … More

Donald Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame seems to be besieged by protests and pickaxes. I wrote about … More

In the light of the allegations against Harvey Weinstein and the wave of stories about other film industry professionals that … More

Jeni LeGon was a brilliant tap dancer and the first woman of colour to sign a contract with a … More

For the 110th anniversary of Louise Brooks’s birth, I wrote a feature for Little White Lies about her unique approach to … More