The Face: Dragged Across Concrete and the #BlueLivesMatter Cop Drama

For the relaunch of legendary magazine The Face, I wrote about S. Craig Zahler's questionable new cop drama Dragged Across Concrete. Check out the piece here on the new website! 

Little White Lies: Have Film Audiences Fallen Out of Love with the Western?

Jacques Audiard's great western The Sisters Brothers is out in UK cinemas today. Unfortunately, when it came out in the US, it flopped at the box office. I wrote a bit about why contemporary westerns don't tend to do very well commercially anymore  over at Little White Lies online. 

Sight & Sound Magazine: Fear + Desire: Stanley Kubrick's Preoccupation with the Male Body

   From the sturdy slaves in Spartacus to the prizefighters of his early films, Stanley Kubrick was long preoccupied by the dimensions of the male body. I wrote about it in print for the May issue of Sight & Sound Magazine, which is available on newsstands now or online here. The Stanley Kubrick season runs at BFI Southbank in London over the next two months.

   

MUBI Notebook: The Visionary Difference of Robert Siodmak's Film Noir

Two of Robert Siodmak's amazing classic film noirs, Phantom Lady (1944) and The Killers (1946) are now streaming on MUBI. For MUBI Notebook, I wrote about Siodmak's influence on the American crime thriller and his background as a German Jew escaping from Nazi Germany. Check out the piece here. 

New Statesman: How Agnès Varda Revolutionised the Inner Lives of Women Onscreen

   For my debut piece at the New Statesman, I wrote about Agnès Varda's incredible seven decade career and how she portrayed the female experience onscreen. RIP Agnès.