Christina Newland: Writing on film & Culture

    I wrote a little bit about Tarantino's one-room western The Hateful Eight and what it means to be 'cinematic' over at ...

In time for the release of Creed , I wrote about ten great boxing films from the past -- from Raging Bull to Somebody Up There Likes Me ...

 I wrote about Creed and the boxing film's long history with race and class in America over at Little White Lies. 

Happy 2016! Some wonderful films are officially a half century old, and to celebrate some of them, I contributed to BFI's list of g...

      For Kirk Douglas' 99th birthday, I wrote about ten of his best films for the BFI. 

10. Crimson Peak, dir. Guillermo del Toro 9. Girlhood (Bande des filles), dir. Celine Sciamma 8. Whiplash, dir. Damien Chazelle ...