J.M. Tyree and I review the Coens’ new film for Sight & Sound, suggesting it is not only a love letter to the movies but also a work that is unusually interested in technical virtuosity, and in systems of belief.
10 to watch at BFI Flare 2016
10 titles of interest at this year’s London LGBT Film Festival, from sauna zombies to queer burlesquers
Review of BFI Film Classics: In the Mood for Love
My Sight & Sound review of Tony Rayns’s breezy, informative new study of Wong Kar Wai’s elegantly restrained classic.
Review: Orson Welles One Man Band for Sight and Sound
Magnificently out of whack: a review of the third volume in Simon Callow’s biography of Orson Welles
The lady vanishes: The Danish Girl silences its own heroine
Star Wars: The Force Awakens isn’t just by fans, for fans – it’s about fans
The new Star Wars movie is full of characters in thrall to mythic tales of the past – but is it also a warning against the excesses of fandom?
As the George & Dragon closes, the BFI revives the queer past
Do you care about queer culture and identity? Thoughts on the closure of yet another venue and a night of incredible archive footage
BFI talks on Welles’s TV work and London’s vanishing queer spaces
Some info on talks I’m giving at BFI Southbank in August 2015 about Orson Welles’s radical yet little-known TV work, and London’s vanishing queer spaces
Orson, mon amour
To mark the start of the two-month BFI Welles season I co-curated, here’s my Sight & Sound cover story on some of his unknown works
The vital lesson Magic Mike XXL can teach cabaret performers
The reason burlesque, drag and cabaret performers should see Channing Tatum’s new male-stripper movie. Okay, another reason.
