was a dream to get to talk to Richard Linklater for @anothermag.com about Nouvelle Vague, Godard being ‘a weirdo’ and his thoughts on AI and cinema www.anothermag.com/design-livin...

From The Voice of Hind Rajab to Peter Hujar’s Day, more and more movies seem to be adapted directly from transcripts - I wrote about the trend for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...

H is for Hawk is endearing and well-meaning, with some of the best human-real-animal acting since Kes, but didn’t quite cut it for me. My review for @empiremagazine.bsky.social: www.empireonline.com/movies/revie...

"Paying fitting tribute to a photography legend, this slice-of-life film is a delectable treat." Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall star in Peter Hujar's Day — in UK cinemas now. Read our review: www.empireonline.com/movies...

Ahead of Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague, I wrote a little list of some of the best filmmaker biopics for the BFI site www.bfi.org.uk/lists/10-gre...

for my first piece this year, I had the pleasure of speaking with Lav Diaz about Magellan. This excellent slow cinema epic is out in US cinemas from today - go watch it! www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti...

more words from me on Peter Hujar’s Day for @empiremagazine.bsky.social www.empireonline.com/movies/revie...

for my first piece this year, I had the pleasure of speaking with Lav Diaz about Magellan. This excellent slow cinema epic is out in US cinemas from today - go watch it! www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti...

JFC Heinously underreported that these 3 young people have a) been held without trial for an unacceptably (illegally?) long time and b) all 3 have now passed into the potentially terminal phase of their hunger strikes. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trump illegally started a war so his billionaire cronies could access Venezuela’s oil. Now he's sending even more of our taxpayer dollars + men and women in uniform to “run the country”?!? I ran for Congress to make sure we learned the lessons of Iraq. Trump is repeating them.

And there ya have it… Officials from top Wall Street firms will be traveling to Venezuela to investigate “investment prospects” of the country. “The trip will feature about 20 officials from the finance, energy and defense sectors.”

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

in cinemas now!

very happy to have a little preview of Hamnet in the current issue of Picturehouse Recommends - a very lovely way to finish off the year in film writing

had the great privilege of speaking with Ira Sachs and Ben Whishaw for @wallpapermag.bsky.social about their gorgeous slice of life film, Peter Hujar’s Day (I’ve been told it was Ira’s favourite interview of the lot, so pls do give it a read) www.wallpaper.com/art/film/pet...

my list of the best films of 2025 for @sightsoundmag.bsky.social ! www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

Very happy to have been asked again to contribute to the @filmcomment.com.web.brid.gy best of 2025 poll I had one extra spot (due to technicalities with release dates) which would have gone to Pepe www.filmcomment.com/best-films-o...

reviewed Eternity - one of cinema’s weirdest conceptions of the afterlife - for @sightsoundmag.bsky.social. It unfortunately did not work for me www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

I reviewed Joy Williams’s latest short story collection for tomorrow’s @ftweekend.com - the American eco-gothic novelist is as great as ever and would really recommend a read www.ft.com/content/2f17...

last week was my second time chairing a Romanian Cultural Institute event with Mircea Cartarescu - this time in-person! - for his UK book tour of Blinding/Orbitor: The Left Wing. An amazing evening (and surprisingly hot, which is why my face is so shiny)

have always been curious about the inner workings of London’s cat cafes and had the opportunity to investigate for The Londoner - what I found was a mix of sweet, strange and sometimes even a little disturbing www.the-londoner.co.uk/londons-cat-...

what the fuck

from (fake) flea-ridden Grey Gardens events, nudist director q&as to the occult, I checked out the new @thenickelcinema.bsky.social and talked to Pink Palace @riocinema.bsky.social and the LCVA about London’s underground cinema scene for The Londoner www.the-londoner.co.uk/nudists-sata...

The Times interviewed dozens of migrant men sent to a prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration. Independent forensic analysts called the testimony credible and consistent and said the treatment met the U.N.’s definition of torture. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

I also talked to Lynne Ramsay (!) for TIME Magazine We chatted about Die my Love’s all-important needle drops, a hopeless Robert Pattinson and Jennifer Lawrence feeling ‘empowered’ acting in the role while pregnant time.com/7331657/die-...

in honour of her role in Ronan and Daniel Day-Lewis’s father-son psychodrama Anemone, I talked to Samantha Morton for @anothermag.com about Under the Skin, why she can’t get her second film greenlit (despite winning a Bafta) and acting being triggering www.anothermag.com/design-livin...

I wrote for BBC Culture about Hedda Gabler - a 19th-century character who has had a truly unprecedented afterlife and become a feminist icon - speaking with Nia DaCosta and Tessa Thompson about their queer new take on Ibsen’s play www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti...

I recently went on the Klassiki podcast to chat about Eastern European horror in the 1960s-1980s. If you’re looking for lesser-known Halloween movie recs, have a listen! klassiki.online/horror-behin...

“Is there a word that means something is both true and false? I’ve looked, and I’ve yet to find one…" @balanescumiriam.bsky.social reviews "Fire Exit" by @morgantalty.bsky.social

I wrote for BBC Culture about Hedda Gabler - a 19th-century character who has had a truly unprecedented afterlife and become a feminist icon - speaking with Nia DaCosta and Tessa Thompson about their queer new take on Ibsen’s play www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti...

I wrote about The Mastermind, why there were so many art heists in the 70s and the robber as heartthrob in pop culture for BBC Culture Didn’t make it into the piece, but Kelly Reichardt said she stole a potato from Whole Foods in the name of research www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti...

everything I saw at LFF this year (thank god it’s over) boxd.it/PEl8U

This historical dive article on 70s art heists by @balanescumiriam.bsky.social is also really worth a read!

sorry to everyone who missed my favourite ever post-credit sting for 100 Nights of Hero

Between Pillion, Blue Heron and a tiny one sprinting through crunchy leaves in Green Park just now, the world is telling me I need a daschund

My first book, Icons of Cinema: Greta Gerwig, is out now! Tysm to gorgeous friends, family and colleagues for their support, as well as everyone from Studio Press/Bonnier Books 🎀 If you have a Greta girlie in your life you should get them a copy, it’s cute and well-researched! 🙂‍↕️ lnk.to/GretaGerwig

I wrote about The Mastermind, why there were so many art heists in the 70s and the robber as heartthrob in pop culture for BBC Culture Didn’t make it into the piece, but Kelly Reichardt said she stole a potato from Whole Foods in the name of research www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti...

I wrote about the abstract artist Arthur Dove, The Mastermind and wasted artistic potential for @wallpapermag.bsky.social www.wallpaper.com/art/film/the...

delighted to have written my first review for @theartnewspaper.bsky.social of the unfortunately rather bland, airbrushed biopic Moss & Freud, which just premiered at LFF www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/14/m...

Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann is gravely concerned about the detention of writer Naoise Dolan...The flotilla was illegally intercepted last night and seized by armed Israeli forces in international waters. irishpen.com/2025/10/08/t...

A rallying, railing portrayal of a broken education system." Cillian Murphy is a headteacher pushed to the brink in emotion-fuelled drama Steve – available on Netflix 19 September. Read the Empire review: www.empireonline.com/movies/revie...

Spinal Tap is back and to mark their return I rounded up 10 of the best mockumentaries for the BFI site www.bfi.org.uk/lists/10-gre...

Spinal Tap is back and to mark their return I rounded up 10 of the best mockumentaries for the BFI site www.bfi.org.uk/lists/10-gre...

The second instalment of Asta Olivia Nordenhof’s pithy and experimental treatise on capitalism is out now from @vintagebooks.bsky.social I reviewed it for tomorrow’s @ftweekend.com www.ft.com/cms/f1019020...

The second instalment of Asta Olivia Nordenhof’s pithy and experimental treatise on capitalism is out now from @vintagebooks.bsky.social I reviewed it for tomorrow’s @ftweekend.com www.ft.com/cms/f1019020...

In my first for @wired.com, I interviewed Laura Bates about her new book The New Age of Sexism about how AI is harming women and girls www.wired.com/story/is-ai-...

With Honey Don’t! out now, I wrote about this year’s coterie of onscreen cult leaders for @curzon.com www.curzon.com/journal/why-... Thanks to @yasminomar.bsky.social for the commission and astute edits

In sci-fi’s soft-centred new turn, the threat traditionally posed by technology is neutralised—the implication being that people are the problem, writes @balanescumiriam.bsky.social.

I wrote a guide to Darren Aronofsky’s work for @anothermag.com www.anothermag.com/design-livin...