Christina Newland: Writing on film & Culture

For BFI, I wrote about ten great films set in New Mexico - the celluloid setting for corruption . Find it here!

I don't seem to agree with the consensus, but I found Pablo Trapero's family crime saga painfully dull. See my review for Littl...

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...