Publish And Be Damned

19 February 2015 New Zealand Margaret Atwood’s essay collection On Writers and Writing is a pleasant enough way to spend an afternoon. Just don’t … More

United They Stood

20 January 2015 London Ava DuVernay’s film Selma recreates a pivotal moment in America’s civil rights movement with intelligence and … More

The Road Less Travelled

18 January 2015 London Wild, a fantastic film adaptation of Cheryl Strayed’s memoir, creates a new kind of movie heroine – the … More

Comedy of Errors

16 January 2015 London Two new movies – Into The Woods and Birdman – send me from ass-numbing boredom to comedy … More

O, What A Lovely War!

12 January 2015 London Testament of Youth, a new British film based on Vera Brittain’s celebrated WWI memoir, is deeply … More

A Brief History of Marriage

5 January 2015 London The Theory of Everything, a new biopic about disabled physicist Stephen Hawking, is – against all odds … More

A Not So Simple Man

8 November 2014 London The Imitation Game brings the life of gay mathematician Alan Turing to the big screen. Despite … More

Filmucopia Part IV: Old Love

17 October 2014 London My London Film Festival marathon closes with two very different New York-based love stories: the wonderful … More

Filmucopia Part III: National Gallery

12 October 2014 London Frederick Wiseman’s wonderful documentary National Gallery pays tribute to and quietly critiques one of the UK’s cultural … More