Reviews and Features

Curzon Journal, ‘How Hoard grapples with the grossness of girlhood’

The Observer, The Hypocrite by Jo Hamya review

AnOther, ‘Love Lies Bleeding: How Rose Glass Created the Sexiest Film of the Year’

The Daily Beast, ‘‘Mary & George’ May Just Be the Sexiest Period Piece Ever’

The Observer, Dead Animals by Phoebe Stuckes review

AnOther, ‘Five Essential Queer Road Movies to Add to Your Watchlist’

BFI, ‘Where to begin with Radu Jude’

Material Queer, All of Us Strangers Review

BBC Culture, ‘Back to Black: Why the controversial Amy Winehouse biopic is angering fans’

Inverse, ‘Oppenheimer Proved We Prefer Biopics About Bad People’

AnOther, Eileen: How Ottessa Moshfegh’s Disturbing Novel Made It to the Big Screen’

Girls on Tops, ‘Kitty Green’s unpredictable masculinities’

Time Out, ‘The 22 best restaurants in Cambridge right now’

i-D, ‘Queer women are still overlooked in rom-coms’

AnOther, How Franz Rogowski Became the Year’s Most Lovable Onscreen Narcissist’

Time Out, ‘The 21 best things to do in Cambridge right now’

Irish Independent, ‘This moment at the end of the Barbie movie is a glorious ode to embracing our imperfections’

The Observer, Open Throat by Henry Hoke review

The Observer, Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein review

i-D, ‘A short history of the queer western’

The Guardian, ‘Gut reaction: Cinema’s new wave of projectile vomiting’

AnOther, ‘Sick of Myself, Kristoffer Borgli’s scathing takedown of modern narcissism’ 

Huck, ‘Why struggling dads are dominating awards season’

BBC Culture, ‘EO: Cinema’s ultimate scene stealers’

The Observer, Brutes by Dizz Tate review

BBC Culture, ‘Female rage: the brutal new icons of film and TV’

AnOther, ‘Bodies, Bodies Bodies: the making of Halina Reijn’s searing satire of Gen-Z’

The Irish Times, Review of Milk Teeth by Jessica Andrews

Little White Lies, ‘How female sex workers are reclaiming their onscreen image’

The Observer, Review of Vladimir by Julia May Jonas

The i Paper, Review of Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies by Maddie Mortimer

The Observer, Review of Toto Among the Murderers by Sally J Morgan 

The Economist, ‘Film-makers are finding horror, not comfort, in the natural world’

AnOther, ‘Bad Luck Banging, the Riotous Berlinale-Winning Film About Amateur Porn’

The i Paper, Checkout 19 by Claire Louise-Bennett, review’

The Irish Times, ‘The Union of Synchronised Swimmers by Cristina Sandu, review’

The Quietus, ‘Rewilding: How First Cow, Minari and Nomadland Reimagine The Western’

Literary Review, review of Animal by Lisa Taddeo

Prospect Magazine, A Romanian master’s fantastical visions’

Literary Review, review of The Coming Bad Days by Sarah Bernstein

The Calvert Journal, ‘Radu Jude: where to start with his films’

The Bookseller, ‘Libraries are lifelines’

The Independent, ‘How bad sex became a staple of feminist drama’

Wales Arts Review, ‘Books Go Back to the 70s’ 

The Cardiff Review, ‘Fickle voices: Clemens Meyer’s Dark Satellites’

The i Paper, ‘Bluebeard’s First Wife by Ha Seong-nan, review’

The Independent, ‘From 13 Reasons Why to Killing Eve – Why TV adaptations should stop going beyond the book’

The Guardian, ”A coldness that masks a burning inner rage’: South Korea’s female writers rise up’

The New Statesman, ‘How Julian Fellowes lost his magic touch’

The Guardian, ‘Will the lockdown trigger a new wave of kitchen sink cinema?’

The Guardian, ‘The unstoppable rise of nosebleeds in cinema’

The New Statesman, ‘From Little Women to David Copperfield: the films modernizing the classics’

The Guardian, ‘Every Studio Ghibli film – ranked!’

The Guardian, ‘Anthony Bourdain’s final book to be published this year’

The Independent, ‘Don’t shout at shop staff during the January sales’

Wales Arts Review, ‘Zadie Smith and the case for the serious short story’

Stylist, ‘Why you should read a book before bedtime if you’re feeling stressed’