Happy New Year!

Short update as I’m away. But it’s 2026, which means one of my favourite traditions over at The Sundae: where Dean and I pick the best films we watched for the first time in the past year that didn’t come out in the past year. You’ll never guess who picked a David Lean film and an Italian thriller. You will guess who picked a pirate movie.

Read it here!

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I wrote about some of my favourite lefty westerns for Current Affairs.

I explained why Superman = Ralph Nader in MUBI’s annual Fantasy Double Features Poll. Scroll down or ctrl +f or read the whole thing, but definitely read my bit!

and a classic from the archives…

I wrote about the Monkees movie Head for In the Mood magazine’s second issue back in 2021.

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