For @ArtReview_ I wrote about cinema in 2024, the year the film world turned a blind eye to genocide

I wrote about the whitewashing of Gothic literature on screen and what I think we can learn from Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” for the Curzon Journal (link below ⬇️)

people hate rape survivors so fucking much man. try to pursue a doomed prosecution and people will hound them about supposedly putting ‘innocent men’ in jail, but refuse to pursue prosecution and they get told they’re responsible for other people being raped.

https://t.co/3PmTKmOeHT

It's so nice talking to strangers in queues. This weekend I was in the queue for the film lab and got chatting with the guy in front of me, and we made a bit of a connection - then as he left the shop, he just handed me a roll of Ilford XP2 for free! I love human beings

I cannot overstate the extent to which the 365 buttons girl completely makes sense to me. She makes sense in an almost mystical way, like a higher truth that can only be accessed by intuition and not logic

Generationally mediocre start to the year's viewing

Saying "you support international law" whilst supporting a President breaking international law - means you don't support international law. Really basic stuff - but this is how badly this Labour Government are scraping the barrel. And it all undermines international law.

Two competing visions of British cinema going on in my Letterboxd stats…

Some films I liked very much this year, from my ballot for @SightSoundmag’s best of 2025 list🌀🏮🕊️

Qesser Zuhrah is dying inside HMP Bronzefield and the ambulance is still not here, @DavidLammy.

My favourite Rob Reiner line delivery from Sleepless in Seattle, one among many of the funniest scenes in any Hollywood movie that he was responsible for in some way. RIP to the one of the best

Can't get over this shot in Sabrina (1954)

https://t.co/bZEJEYboti https://t.co/pvgxXCVE6f

Essential writing by @uncanny_eli - please write to the Justice Secretary David Lammy to protest the treatment of the hunger strikers and, if you're in London, go to the demonstration happening at the Old Bailey tomorrow. I'll put some links below

urgent: i wrote about the UK prison hunger strike, looking at vital info about how to respond to the strike & wider analysis of how it brings together different forms of liberation struggle. the media blackout is cracking a little, but time is v limited. https://t.co/mPCsRc4Pkp

Went to the Nan Goldin exhibition in Milan this week. She says: “For me, it is not a detachment to take a picture. It's a way of touching somebody—it's a caress. I think that you can actually give people access to their own soul.”

(Or you can DM me and I'll send you the google doc haha)

If you’re going to @closeupcentre tonight to watch The Hole, you can read the full thing in a zine for the Strange Encounters season!

Wrote a short piece about Charles Burnett’s The Annihilation of Fish, one of my favourite films, for screening here in London last week 🐠🌟

I showed my dad this scene and he, master philatelist that he is, immediately recognised that they were stamps from 1950s Taiwan and South Africa (in the film the family patriarch has just received a letter from South Africa) despite not knowing anything about the film