Writing
2020
- Review: Dolittle (Stephen Gaghan) — Prospect
- Quentin Dupieux’s Deerskin, masculinity, and new beginnings — Stillpoint
- The film industry will stay racist and sexist until we drop period dramas — Dazed
- Do the Oscars really reward the best costumes? — BBC Culture
- Our public life is built on it – so why does nobody in Britain talk about nepotism? —Prospect
- Does anyone outside of Twitter really care about films being woke? — Dazed
- Stop begging Hollywood for the paltriest amount of queer representation — Dazed
- Parasite won’t win – it would ruin the market for mediocre white films — The Independent
- Veganuary isn’t a fad – it’s a chance to live a more ethical life — The Independent
- 1917’s cinematography is wondrous – but Sam Mendes’ one-shot technique turns this war epic into an adventure — i News
2019
- Review: Cats (Tom Hooper) — Prospect
- Will we ever escape the endless Hell that is the Marvel movies culture war? — Dazed
- Kingsman was the perfect, poisonous choice to doctor Trump into — The Independent
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Martin Scorsese is right about Marvel films – they aren’t cinema — The Independent
- From the outhouse to the arthouse: how Hollywood’s kings of comedy got serious — The Guardian
- We can laugh at Emma Watson’s “self-partnering”—but the idea of being happy alone is still taboo Prospect
- ‘I had to adjust to life with a different penis’ – the pain and positives of an elective circumcision — The Guardian
- Review: Countdown (Justin Dec) — Prospect
- Putting beauty back into men’s lives is essential – what having children taught me about being a man — The Guardian
- Review: The Goldfinch — GQ
- Interview: Julia Stiles, ’90s icon, doesn’t go for the flashy roles — The Face
- When it comes to cinema, why does Britain insist on showing the world the worst version of ourselves? — Prospect
- Tarantino’s gruesome revenge fantasies are growing more puerile and misogynistic — The Guardian
- The argument for ‘cancelling’ Quentin Tarantino is often reductive — Dazed
- Why Universal shouldn’t have cancelled The Hunt — The Guardian
- Nepotism in the movies: it’s time to call out the acting school of mum and dad — The Guardian
- Interview: Rhianne Barreto on her role as a teen struggling with the fallout of her sexual assault — The Face
- Alice in Midsommar: how the summer horror blockbuster draws from Victorian fantasy — Prospect
- From Disney dream to tragic teen: How Cameron Boyce was on the cusp of indie film stardom — The Telegraph
- The Lion King: Yes, Beyonce’s in it but who is this remake even for? — i News
- Lil Nas X’s coming out shows why hiding LGBT life from children won’t work — The Guardian
- Oleg first look: a shrewd, funny, bracing account of an immigrant worker’s life — BFI
- Ken Loach has competition: meet the new heroes of socially conscious cinema — The Guardian
- Spoiler warning: why our fear of giving away plot details has gone too far — Prospect
- Reviews: Pippa Bianco’s ‘Share,’ Danielle Lessovitz’s ‘Port Authority’, And Annie Silverstein’s ‘Bull’ — Pajiba
- Young Ahmed first look: the Dardennes ponder the riddle of radicalisation — BFI
- Review: ‘The Lighthouse’ Is Robert Eggers Boundary-Pushing Follow-Up To ‘The Witch’ — Pajiba
- Robert Pattinson shines in The Lighthouse — The Face
- Beanpole first look: life, and beauty, persist after the siege of Leningrad — BFI
- Review: The Climb (Michael Covino) — Pajiba
- Jim Jarmusch’s celeb-jammed zombie comedy — The Face
- Review: The Dead Don’t Die (Jim Jarmusch) — Pajiba
- Deerskin first look: Jean Dujardin seeks one jacket to rule them all — BFI
- How is Mel Gibson now starring in a film about the Rothschilds? — New Statesman
- 5 Things You Didn’t Know About Doris Day — Love
- John Cleese’s latest xenophobic comments reveal a sad truth about aging comedians — The Independent
- From Madeleine McCann to Ted Bundy, what our obsession with true crime says about us — Prospect
- By opposing equality in sex education, Shabana Mahmood is underestimating children and othering LGBTQ people — New Statesman
- Close-Up on Mathieu Amalric’s “Barbara” — Mubi
- The Oscars Need A Revolution — Mubi
- Should we be surprised by John Wayne’s racist and homophobic views? — The Guardian
- The Ryan Adams story should prompt men to see the “tortured artist” act for what it is — Prospect
- Netflix’s Sex Education is about as British as a high-school prom — The Guardian
2018
- Pauline Kael, Cary Grant, and the Ambiguity of Male Seduction — Mubi
- Guess which films launch on Brexit day: Dumbo – and Lords of Chaos — The Guardian
- The Prince musical shows anything goes in Hollywood – bar original ideas — The Guardian
- ‘Sister Act 2’ Set the Gold Standard for Bad Sequels — Vice
- From Trading Places to The Princess Switch – why are there so many Christmas life-swap movies? — The Guardian
- How a £40 cinema ticket reveals everything wrong with today’s entertainment industry — Prospect
- Filming a Great Gatsby origin story shows our culture is eating itself — The Guardian
- Ripped off: how bulky bodies took over Hollywood—and ordinary men’s lives — Prospect
- Times are a-changin’ as Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks spills on to the screen — The Guardian
- Why gender equality in Hollywood is still a long way off — The Independent
- The fuss over Chris Pine’s ‘dazzling’ penis tells us so much about the enduring taboo of on-screen male nudity — The Independent
- Art doesn’t exist in a vacuum—so why do so many film critics? — Prospect
- The Memeification of Agnès Varda — Mubi
- How TV comedies are leading the way on #MeToo — Little White Lies
- Review: Climax — QX
- Why is Eminem still using the word ‘faggot’? — Shortlist
- Casting Jack Whitehall as a gay Disney character is an act of queer erasure — The Guardian
- Who needs film critics? Actually, we all do — The Guardian
- Review: The Happy Prince (dir. Rupert Everett) — QX
- Review: 120 BPM (dir. Robin Campillo) — Sight & Sound
- This Is Not a Review of Lars Von Trier’s Repulsive ‘The House That Jack Built’ — Pajiba
- LGBT people need to rediscover their rage in this age of protest — The Guardian
- Early warning: why are films about childhood in crisis looming over Cannes? — The Guardian
- Freddie Mercury biopic trailer: killer Queen or queerwashed cop-out? — The Guardian
- Fantastic Beasts 2: why can’t they just let Dumbledore be gay? — The Guardian
- The Greatest Showman: how the Hugh Jackman musical became an unlikely hit — The Guardian
- Review: BlacKkKlansman (dir. Spike Lee) — Pajiba
- Review: Leave No Trace (dir. Debra Granik) — Pajiba
- Now Cannes has acknowledged women exist, what will it do for them? — Prospect
- Review: Capernaüm (dir. Nadine Labaki) — Sight & Sound
- Review: A Violent Desire for Joy (dir. Clément Schneider) — Sight & Sound
- Three Billboards, Wind River and Hollywood’s Representation Problem — Somesuch Stories
2017
- Talk is cheap: will anyone save us from the waking nightmare of director Q&As? — The Guardian
- When did French cinema become so reactionary? — Sight & Sound
- How can you separate the art from the artist? — Prospect
- Everyone knew Hollywood had a problem—but the soul searching isn’t over yet – Prospect
- Who will play May? The discerning critic’s guide to Prime Minister biopics — Prospect
- Want To Tackle Homophobia in Football? — Prospect
- Joanna Lumley is right: Idris Elba shouldn’t play Bond. In fact, no one should — The Guardian
- Review: The Florida Project (dir. Sean Baker) — Pajiba
- Review: Wonderstruck (dir. Todd Haynes) — Pajiba
- Review: The Killing of a Sacred Deer (dir. Yorgos Lanthimos) — Pajiba
- Review: The Meyerowitz Stories (dir. Noah Baumbach) — Pajiba
- Review: Good Time (dir. Josh & Benny Safdie) — Pajiba
2016
- How Cinema Failed Diversity in 2016 — The Guardian
- Review: Louis Theroux: Savile — Little White Lies
- Review: Embrace of the Serpent (dir. Ciro Guerra) — Little White Lies
- Review: Apichatpong Weerasethakul programme at Tate Modern — The Guardian
- Ken Loach is right – British film and TV has become too cosy and conservative — Little White Lies
- A New Hope – Black empowerment and symbolic casting in contemporary blockbusters — Little White Lies
Earlier
- Review: Carol (dir. Todd Haynes) — Pajiba
- Acting, Sex & Childhood — Somesuch Stories
- Patrice Chereau remembered — The Quietus
- Frank Ocean and the language of love — Dummy Mag
- On Azealia Banks — Dummy Mag
- It’s Weird, Grindr Doesn’t Seem To Be Working Out All That Well For Me — Somesuch Stories
- If the Beach Boys had lived in Great Britain — McSweeneys
Selected Blogposts
- Thoughts on Queer Eye
- Review: A Fantastic Woman
- Review: Lady Bird
- A look back at cinema in 2017
- On being small
- On the male orgasm in cinema
- Review: Nocturama
- Tips For Bathing Baby
Caspar Salmon 