Contribution to ‘Fantasy Double Features of 2025: Superman (James Gunn, 2025) + An Unreasonable Man (Henriette Mantel and Steve Skrovan, 2006).’ MUBI Notebook, 22 December 2023.

‘In Praise of The Morning After, Dick Van Dyke’s Most Searing Performance.’ Crooked Marquee, 12 December 2025.

‘Considerations on Western Culture.’ Current Affairs issue 56, November-December 2025. Republished online as ‘The Secret History of the Left-Wing Western’ 22 December 2025.

‘To Watch a Cow.’ Current Affairs issue 55, September-October 2025. Republished online as ‘Everyone Should Watch Andrea Arnold’s Cow’ 17 November 2025.

‘Keep the Change, Bobby James: The Simple Pleasures of Roller Boogie.’ Crooked Marquee, 29 August 2025.

‘Classic Corner: Dersu Uzala.’ Crooked Marquee, 8 August 2025.

‘The Art of Singing Badly.’ The Sundae, 20 July 2025.

‘Mr. Burton: More Than a Mentor.’ Current Affairs issue 54, July-August 2025. Republished online as ‘The Surprisingly Complicated Politics of Richard Burton’ 10 September 2025.

‘Blu-Ray Review: Conclave.’ Cineaste Vol. L, No. 3, Summer 2025.

‘Infection Blurs the Line Between Body and Psychological Horror.’ Certified Forgotten, 21 May 2025.

‘Seeing Cimino.’ Current Affairs issue 53, May-June 2025. Published online as ‘The Forgotten Classics of Michael Cimino’ 30 June 2025.

‘The Open-Hearted Solidarity of Wagon Master, 75 Years On.’ Crooked Marquee, 21 April 2025.

‘One Shot | Uncle Buck.’ MUBI Notebook, 2 April 2025.

‘The Art of Ambition.’ Current Affairs issue 52, January-April 2025. Republished online 31 March 2025.

‘The “Small Miracle” of The Sure Thing.’ Crooked Marquee, 3 March 2025.

‘Forget the Alamo.’ Current Affairs issue 50, September-October 2024.

‘Coyote vs Acme vs Warner Bros. vs The World.’ Current Affairs issue 49, July-August 2024. Republished online as ‘How Capitalism Incentivizes the Destruction of Art’ online 3 September 2024.

‘Forrest Gump Is Actually a Good Movie That Gets Better with Age — Even If Its Visual Effects Don’t.’ IndieWire, 4 July 2024.

‘Hard Times in Professional Wrestling.’ Current Affairs issue 48, May-June 2024. Republished online 26 August 2024.

‘A Portrait of the Autist as a Young Woman.’ Current Affairs issue 47, March-April 2024. Republished as ‘What Poor Things Tells Us About Neurodivergence’ online 20 June 2024.

‘You Should (Not) Watch Julien Donkey-Boy.’ The Sundae, 21 April 2024.

‘Scarface is For Girls.’ Crooked Marquee, 3 March 2024.

‘Vast Wasteland or Fertile Soil? Redefining TV’s Golden Ages.’ Cineaste Vol. XLIX, No. 2, Spring 2024.

‘Taxi and the Workplace.’ Current Affairs issue 46, January-February 2024. Republished online 29 April 2024.

‘This is a big world/That was a small town.’ Swiftly: A Close Reading of Taylor Swift, edited by Celia Mattison, 1 January 2024.

Contribution to ‘Notebook’s 16th Writers Poll: Fantasy Double Features of 2023.’ MUBI Notebook, 22 December 2023.

‘Notebook Primer: Martin and Lewis, Partners in Film and Life.’ MUBI Notebook, 20 October 2023.

‘25 Years Later, Sports Night Is Still Aaron Sorkin’s Greatest Work.’ Paste Magazine, 22 September 2023.

‘I Know Your People, Sean: The Quiet Man (1952).’ Bright Wall/Dark Room, issue 123, 10 September 2023.

‘Getting to Know Soviet Cinema.’ Current Affairs issue 43, July-August 2023. Republished online 31 October 2023.

‘The Cheerfully Dystopian Americana of Hands on a Hard Body.’ Crooked Marquee, 10 July 2023.

‘The Labor Politics of Air.’ Current Affairs issue 42, May-June 2023. Republished online 4 September 2023.

‘Revisiting The Miracle Worker.’ Current Affairs issue 41, March-April 2023. Republished as ‘The Miracle Worker Tells a Surprisingly Bold and Liberatory Story about Helen Keller’ online 26 June 2023.

‘In Defense of South Park.’ Current Affairs issue 40, January-February 2023. Republished online 10 April 2023.

‘Blu-Ray Review: In Bruges.’ Cineaste Vol. XLVIII, No. 2, Spring 2023.

‘Letter: Elvis Seen as a Horror Film.’ Cineaste Vol. XLVIII, No. 2, Spring 2023.

‘Crooked Marquee’s Bad Romances: Something Wild.’ Crooked Marquee, 6 February 2023.

‘My Year of James Bond.‘ Paste Magazine, 18 January 2023.

‘You Thought You Knew Elvis.’ Current Affairs issue 39, November-December 2022. Republished as ‘Elvis Like You’ve Never Seen Him Before’ online 29 January 2023.

‘In The Last Horror Film, Sleaze Meets the Meta-Slasher.’ Certified Forgotten, 28 November 2022.

‘Review: The Banshees of Inisherin.’ Cineaste Vol. XLVIII, No. 1, Winter 2022. Preview here.

‘Lucio Fulci: So Much More Than The Godfather of Gore – Don’t Torture a Duckling at 50.’ Fangoria, 25 October 2022.

‘Pieces Isn’t Exactly What You Think it Is.’ Crooked Marquee, 23 August 2022.

‘The Kids Haven’t Changed, You Have.’ The Sundae, 31 July 2022.

‘New Look at New York, New York.’ Film in Dublin presents Pretty Deadly Films issue 10, July 2022.

‘Entering The Twilight Zone.’ Current Affairs issue 36, May-June 2022. Republished online 22 August 2022.

‘In Defense of Chasing Amy, 25 Years Later.’ Crooked Marquee, 4 April 2022.

‘The People’s Tramp.’ Current Affairs issue 35, March-April 2022. Republished online 6 June 2022.

‘John Carpenter’s Pure Cinema.’ No Cinema! issue 4: The John Carpenter Issue, 2022.

‘The Plumber Is a Sour Clash of Class and Gender.’ Certified Forgotten, 22 February 2022.

‘Film Diaries: Lisztomania (1975).’ In The Mood Magazine issue 3, February 2022.

‘Gimmicks Aside, The Tingler is Fucking Fantastic.’ Unwinnable, 21 January 2022.

‘The many joys of the Soviet Sherlock Holmes.’ Episodes, 5 November 2021. Republished on The Sundae, 26 March 2023.

‘Film Diaries: Head (1968).’ In The Mood Magazine issue 2, November 2021.

‘Michael Collins Remains an Irish Cornerstone 25 Years Later.’ Paste Magazine, 25 October 2021.

‘Circle Calls Our Conscience To a Vote.’ Certified Forgotten, 12 August 2021.

‘Revisiting Steven Spielberg’s Undersung Masterpiece, Catch Me If You Can.’ Film Daze, 5 August 2021.

‘Cancelled Too Soon: Mindhunter.’ The Sundae, 26 July 2021.

‘Teen Movies and Melancholy Nostalgia.’ Film in Dublin presents Pretty Deadly Films issue 6, June 2021.

‘How Christopher Landon is Reinventing the Slasher Movie.’ Fangoria, 17 June 2021.

‘God Help Bobby and Helen: Panic in Needle Park at 50.’ Crooked Marquee, 16 June 2021.

‘Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows Transcends the Genre It Pioneered.’ Fanbyte, 4 June 2021.

‘A Woman Waging War: Ms .45 at 40.’ Crooked Marquee, 26 April 2021.

‘Ivan Vasilievich Changes Profession.’ Exploits: An Unwinnable Publication issue 37, April 2021. Republished on The Sundae, 27 June 2021.

‘The Noirs of Melville.’ Current Affairs issue 30, March-April 2021. Republished online 20 June 2021.

‘The Social Network and Me: A Love Story.’ The Sundae, 3 March 2021.

‘Hollywood, the Bush Years, and America’s Memory Hole.’ Current Affairs, 24 November 2020.

‘Taskmaster’s Alex Horne actually fronts another show that you might not have heard of.’ Digital Spy, 5 November 2020.

‘A Film Less Likely.’ Film Stories issue 19, October 2020.

‘Anti-Drama and Hobbyism in Paterson.’ Film Daze, 12 September 2020.

‘Mythic Quest and the Pursuit of Anti-Capitalist Media.’ Current Affairs, 12 August 2020.

‘We Are the Sunshine Nation.’ The Sundae, 4 August 2020.

‘Phase IV.’ Exploits: An Unwinnable Publication issue 29, August 2020. Republished on The Sundae, 27 June 2021.

‘God Sent Me To Piss The World Off‘ four part series. The Sundae, May 2020.

‘A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors.’ Exploits: An Unwinnable Publication issue 25, April 2020. Republished on The Sundae, 27 June 2021.

‘Gender Troubles in The Crying Game.’ The Sundae, 6 January 2020.

‘What Gets Lost.’ Current Affairs issue 23, January-February 2020. Republished online 9 July 2020.

‘Bad Lieutenant and the Cacophony of God.‘ The Sundae, 1 December 2019.

‘Review – The Irishman.’ Scannain, 9 November 2019.

‘Saint Lady Bird of Sacramento.’ The Sundae, 14 January 2019.

‘A Mid-Life Crisis in North Dakota.’ The Sundae, 3 September 2018.

‘Why Would You Need To Guard A Dead Man Stuck In A Two-Foot Refrigerator?’ Bright Wall/Dark Room issue 62, 15 August 2018.

‘Sofia Coppola’s Sad Rich People.’ The Sundae, 5 February 2018.

‘Weekend at Bernie’s Is Not the Film You Think It Is.’ The Sundae, 19 December 2017.

‘Duct Tape on Armchairs: Frasier and the Working-Class Sitcom.’ The Sundae, 23 July 2017.

‘Ghostbusters (2016): a Hillary Clinton Story.’ The Sundae, 7 May 2017.

‘Martin Scorsese’s Violence of Grace.’ The Sundae, 2 April 2017.

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