My review of Invention (dir. Courtney Stephens) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

My review of The Dead Of Winter (dir. Brian Kirk) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au... (it premiered at Locarno in the summer and gets its UK release today)

My review of Brides (dir. Nadia Fall) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

Despite mobile technology, Andy Burnham should surely keep faith with our treasured political traditions by installing forty phone lines at his house

My vlog on Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another is up here: youtu.be/3DKR_M_8Xls?... - please click, watch, share and subscribe

Some thoughts on the late Claudia Cardinale www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

Good piece by Freddie Hayward in @newstatesman.com on the new dysphemism - uglifying language in the service of political panic and clampdown www.newstatesman.com/world/americ...

Here’s @georgemonbiot.bsky.social on forty years of journalistic work against the mendacity and mediocrity of big-money and vested interests www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

My review of A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (dir. Kogonada) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

My review of Ebony & Ivory (dir. Jim Hosking) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

My review of Happyend (dir. Neo Sora) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

My review of One Battle After Another (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

My review of Ghost Trail (dir. Jonathan Millet) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

My review of The Lost Bus (dir. Paul Greengrass) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

My vlog on Kogonada’s A Big Bold Beautiful Journey is up here: youtu.be/ZEoBMdLmyjY?... - please click, watch, share and subscribe

Thanks Tom!

Some thoughts on the late Robert Redford www.theguardian.com/film/filmblo...

Thanks to Radio Times for this piece on Hunting Alice Bell, our upcoming Clapperboard Studios drama for Channel 4 www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/hun...

My review of From Ground Zero; Stories From Gaza (dirs. Aws Al-Banna et al) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

My review of Holding Liat (dir. Brandon Kramer) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

My review of The Man In My Basement (dir. Nadia Latif) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

My review of the re-release of Pépé Le Moko (1937) (dir. Julien Duvivier) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

My review of Spinal Tap II: The End Continues (dir. Rob Reiner) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

This would be a good subject for Boris Johnson’s weekly @dailymail.co.uk column: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Very excited about this! www.channel4.com/press/news/c...

It wouldn’t have been my choice but it was a very beguiling film - re-upping here my review of Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au... #venezia82

My review of Steve (dir. Tim Mielants) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se... #TIFF

My review of Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale (dir. Simon Curtis) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

My review of the re-release of Jumanji (1995) (dir. Joe Johnston) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

My review of The Voice Of Hind Rajab (dir. Kaouther Ben Hania) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se... #Venezia82

My review of Kim Novak’s Vertigo (dir. Alexandre O. Philippe) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se... #Venezia82

My review of Straight Circle (dir. Oscar Hudson) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se... #Venezia82

My review of A House Of Dynamite (dir. Kathryn Bigelow) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se... #Venezia82

My review of Dead Man’s Wire (dir. Gus Van Sant) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se... #Venezia82

My review of The Testament Of Ann Lee (dir. Mona Fastvold) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se... #Venezia82 #venezia

My review of The Smashing Machine (dir. Benny Safdie) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se... #venezia #Venezia82

My review of After The Hunt (dir. Luca Guadagnino) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au... #Venezia2025 #Venezia

This new play about 70s comic Charlie Williams from Chris England, author of An Evening With Gary Lineker, looks fab: www.whitebeartheatre.co.uk/whatson/eh-u...!

My review of La Grazia (dir. Paolo Sorrentino) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au... #Venezia82 #Venezia2025

My review of Ghost Elephants (dir. Werner Herzog) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au... #Venezia2025 #Venezia82 #VeniceFilmFestival

My review of Orphan (dir. László Nemes) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au... #Venezia2025 #Venezia82

My review of Jay Kelly (dir. Noah Baumbach) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au... #Venezia82 #Venezia2025

My vlog on Chris Columbus’s The Thursday Murder Club is up here, please watch, share and subscribe: youtu.be/GTtikO6YNcc?...

My review of Little Trouble Girls (dir. Urška Djukić) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au...

My review of Christy (dir. Brendan Canty) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au...

My review of The Toxic Avenger (dir. Macon Blair) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au...

My review of Oslo Stories Trilogy: Sex (dir. Dag Johan Haugerud) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au...

My review of Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough (dir. Paul Sng) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au...

My review of the re-release of This Is Spinal Tap (1984) (dir. Rob Reiner) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au...

My review of the re-release of The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) (dir. Jim Sharman) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au...