Christina Newland: Writing on film & Culture

For Little White Lies Sep/Oct issue - all about Westerns in time for the release of The Magnificent Seven - I wrote about the origin...

 In my first piece for Roger Ebert.com, I wrote about the 20th anniversary of Ken Burns' PBS series The West - and his languid appro...

In honour of the 1976 classic Rocky turning 40 this year, I wrote about how audiences mis-remember movies - and how our collective mem...

For VICE's Fightland, I wrote about a heavyweight boxer called Primo Carnera and his involvement wi th both Hollywood and the Mafia...

For BFI, I wrote a tiny bit about Brian De Palma's Carrie in a list of great films from 1976 --   as they turn 40 this year! You...

I'm humbled to be able to have written about German Sinti light-heavyweight champion Johann Trollmann - and how his popularity inf...