A curated selection of the best work I’ve published in 2020, from books to interviews to podcasts. For an exhaustive list of all my published works in 2020, visit my Contently page.
2020 bylines: Seventh Row, The Film Stage, Girls on Tops, Cinema Year Zero, and JumpCut Online.
Festivals covered in 2020: Sundance, Final Girls Berlin, Fantasia, TIFF, LFF, Raindance, Indie Memphis, and more.
Scroll down for selected works from before 2020.
Books…
I co-edited and co-wrote the first book ever written about Céline Sciamma. Published by Seventh Row.
I co-edited and co-wrote an ebook about my favourite filmmaker, Kelly Reichardt. Published by Seventh Row.
Features…
The 20 best supporting performances of 2020 Seventh Row
For Your Consideration: Matthew Macfadyen’s one-scene wonder in The Assistant Seventh Row
The 20 best lead performances of 2020 Seventh Row
Florence Pugh reveals what’s beneath the strength of her characters Seventh Row
Mangrove and Ultraviolence are two angles on UK police brutality(LFF) Seventh Row
I’m Thinking of Ending Things and unpacking Charlie Kaufman and Ian Reid’s contrasting visions The Film Stage
Dreams of a Life | Sus Cinema Year Zero
Great horror performances: Lupita Nyong’o in Us Seventh Row
Wild nights: The journey to find justice for Emily Dickinson Girls on Tops
Les Misérables and Just Mercy use classic texts to explore systemic racism Seventh Row
Bright Young Things: Geraldine Viswanathan’s intelligent young women Seventh Row
Reviews…
Education: Small Axe ends on a note of bittersweet hope Seventh Row
Happiest Season: Kristen Stewart excels in fresh Christmas comedy The Film Stage
On the Rocks is a retrograde disappointment from Sofia Coppola Seventh Row
Safe spaces and gendered violence in Lovers Rock (LFF) Seventh Row
Ammonite Excavates an Authentic, Textured Love Story (LFF) The Film Stage
Shadow in the Cloud is a film of two halves(TIFF) Seventh Row
Bosnian genocide drama Quo Vadis, Aida? grapples with complicity (TIFF) Seventh Row
The shallow politics of Michel Franco’s New Order (TIFF) Seventh Row
Sweat is one of the first great films about an influencer (TIFF) Seventh Row
I’m Thinking of Ending Things: Charlie Kaufman Opens a Puzzle Box of Existential Dread The Film Stage
Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow and dreamers thwarted by capitalism Seventh Row
Jumbo and Objectum Sexuality (Sundance) Seventh Row
Interviews…
In Farewell Amor, Ekwa Msangi uses Angolan dance to explore family bonds Seventh Row
Mads Mikkelsen on finding the beauty in an alcohol-fueled midlife crisis The Film Stage
Thomas Vinterberg on Another Round, drunk acting, avoiding moralization, and Mads Mikkelsen’s dance skills The Film Stage
Francis Lee on Ammonite and the voiceless women of history Seventh Row
Quinn Armstrong on his bizarre police training parody, Survival Skills Seventh Row
‘This film is a cemetery’: Kirsten Johnson on Dick Johnson is Dead Seventh Row
Merawi Gerima’s Residue is an archive of a community facing gentrification Seventh Row
Reclaiming transmasculine history in No Ordinary Man (TIFF) Seventh Row
Andrea Dorfman on Spinster, an ‘anti rom-com’ for the ages Seventh Row
Eva Riley on Perfect 10, her touching sibling story disguised as a sports film Seventh Row
Lily Gladstone on Kelly Reichardt and her love of linguistics (ebook preview) Seventh Row
The Assistant: Kitty Green on making an office sound sinister Seventh Row
Ariane Labed on her directorial debut, Olla (Sundance) Seventh Row
How to make a short film with no money: Chris Elena on Audio Guide Seventh Row
Podcasts…
Steve McQueen’s Small Axe Seventh Row Podcast
Are men OK? Masculinity, mental health, and addiction in Another Round and Oslo, August 31st Seventh Row Podcast
Paddington and Paddington 2 Seventh Row Podcast
Francis Lee’s God’s Own Country and Ammonite Seventh Row Podcast
Misbehaviour and British revolution ensemble films Seventh Row Podcast
Comparing adaptations of The Secret Garden Seventh Row Podcast
Certain Women The Film Stage’s Intermission Podcast
First Cow & Wendy and Lucy Seventh Row Podcast
Working mothers: Proxima & Baby Boom Seventh Row Podcast
Split-screen storytelling: Lungs & Conversations With Other Women Seventh Row Podcast
Portraits of Resistance: An Interview with Alex Heeney and Orla Smith Podcast of a Lady on Fire
Shirley and portraits of female artists Seventh Row Podcast
The romances of Normal People & On Chesil Beach Seventh Row Podcast
5 themes in feminist horror Britflicks Podcast
Dead mothers: Stories We Tell, Louder Than Bombs, & Mouthpiece Seventh Row Podcast
Abortion on screen and Never Rarely Sometimes Always Seventh Row podcast
Moderated virtual Q&A with Penny Lane & Carol Nguyen Seventh Row
In person speech about the changing face of the female monster Final Girls Berlin Film Festival
Past selected works
A curated selection of the best work I’ve published from 2017 to 2019.
Books…
Features…
Thelma is more than just a modern Carrie Seventh Row
Approaching center frame in The Souvenir Seventh Row
Timothée Chalamet and the contradictions of coming-of-age Seventh Row
Reviews…
Midsommar is a chaotic, visceral horror Seventh Row
Summer 1993 captures how children process grief Seventh Row
Ava uses the onset of blindness as a coming-of-age metaphor Seventh Row
Interviews…
Hala is a lyrical debut from Minhal Baig Seventh Row
Alice Winocour on her outstanding space drama, Proxima(TIFF) Seventh Row
One woman’s experience of the Dublin housing crisis in Rosie Seventh Row
Atiq Rahimi uncovers the seeds of war in Our Lady of the Nile (TIFF) Seventh Row
Shola Amoo on his stylised coming-of-ager, The Last Tree Seventh Row
Amma Asante on Where Hands Touch: ‘These black children were walking a strange tightrope’ Seventh Row
Life in closeup: Kazik Radwanski on Anne at 13,000 ft (TIFF) Seventh Row
Crystal Swan‘s heroine is as unforgettable as her costumes (LFF) Seventh RowBrett Haley on Hearts Beat Loud: ‘Music and creativity bring people together’ Seventh Row
Haifaa Al-Mansour’s crowdpleaser, The Perfect Candidate (TIFF) Seventh RowWanuri Kahiu on Rafiki: ‘Falling in love is when you giggle and blush the most’ (LFF) Seventh RowCinematographer Sean Bobbitt on On Chesil Beach Seventh Row
Podcasts…
Marriage Story Seventh Row Podcast
Find Me and adapting André Aciman for the Screen Seventh Row Podcast
Feminist horror Seventh Row Podcast
Midsommar and Florence Pugh Seventh Row Podcast
Other…
In person speech about the changing face of the female monster London Horror Symposium
