All articles by Christina Newland
Final Cut! makes a self-satisfied muddle out of its zombie-horror spoof
Michel Hazanavicius’s meta remake of Japanese cult classic One Cut of the Dead demands sympathy for hapless film hacks, but does little to earn it.
By Christina Newland
“Kill all hippies”: the punk nihilism of Dennis Hopper’s Out of the Blue
By Christina Newland
“You throw Black people in a western and it’s like sci-fi”: Director Jeymes Samuel on The Harder They Fall
By Christina Newland
Call me by my name: Thandiwe Newton and the whitewashing of film stars’ names
By Christina Newland
“In the end you can’t help but make stuff in a postmodern way”: Ben Wheatley on re-filming Rebecca
By Christina Newland
“Why fight for a country when they lynch you?” Spike Lee on Da 5 Bloods and American lies
By Christina Newland
In Birds of Prey, Harley Quinn lets her hair down
By Christina Newland
Where to begin with Vincente Minnelli
By Christina Newland
Pauline Kael and the men from dream city
By Christina Newland
15 rare times when a director made great films in 5 or more different decades
By Alex Barrett, Martyn Conterio and others
How Joan Crawford embraced film noir (and middle age)
By Christina Newland
10 great films about Gypsies and Travellers
By Christina Newland
In defence of Claudia Cardinale’s role in Once upon a Time in the West
By Christina Newland
Some like it hot – how sleaze, sweat and sunshine define Florida on film
By Christina Newland
10 great thrillers directed by women
By Christina Newland
Can the crime film change its ways? The sway of the 1970s at the 2017 LFF
By Christina Newland
Where to begin with Jean-Pierre Melville
By Christina Newland
A bigger splash: diving into the dark depths of swimming pools on film
By Christina Newland
9 Scorsese women: stories of survival and sacrifice
By Christina Newland
Where to begin with Luchino Visconti
By Christina Newland
10 great films from 1966
By Samuel Wigley, Christina Newland and others