2020
April
Little White Lies: Why I Love Toshiro Mifune in Throne of Blood (01/04/20)
March
Financial Times: Jacques Tati and Architecture (14/03/20) + (in print)
Little White Lies: On Location – The beach from The 400 Blows (08/03/20)
BFI: Then & Now – Six Locations from Sunday Bloody Sunday (04/03/20)
Spike Island: Novel Writers – Interview (02/03/20)
February
BBC: Radio 3 – Free Thinking: Alejandro Jodorowsky (18/02/20)
Republic of Consciousness: Interview – How Pale The Winter Has Made Us (15/02/20)
Sight & Sound: Lost & Found – Pierre Granier-Deferre’s La Horse (09/02/2020)
BFI: The Deathly Parisian Hinterlands of Eyes Without A Face (06/02/2020)
January
Little White Lies: On Location – The concert house from The Piano Teacher (26/01/2020)
Little White Lies: Speed and Screwball in His Girl Friday (19/01/20)
BFI: Where To Begin with Delphine Seyrig (06/01/20)
2019
December
BFI: Where To Begin with Andrew Kötting (16/12/2019)
Caught By The River: The Grave of W.G. Sebald (14/12/2019)
Port Magazine: The Edgelands of Lynne Ramsay’s Ratcatcher (09/12/2019)
Indicator: The Pillow Book (Peter Greenaway) booklet essay (06/12/2019)
Little White Lies: Why I Love Eva Marie Saint in On The Waterfront (03/12/2019)
November
Little White Lies: On Location: The Pub from Withnail & I (25/11/2019)
Caught By The River: Gilles Deleuze and the Last Paris (24/11/2019)
Granta: In Conversation with Robert Macfarlane (09/11/2019)
Little White Lies: Jacques Demy’s Re-imagining of Hollywood (04/11/2019)
BFI: Two Occult Films from the Hippy Era (Secret Rites + Legend of the Witches (01/11/2019)
October
BBC: Radio 3 – Free Thinking (Ghost Stories) (31/10/2019)
Caught By The River: The Childhood Home of M.R. James (31/10/2019)
BBC: Radio 4 – Fear In The Furrows (31/10/2019)
Little White Lies: On Location: The Church from The Blood On Satan’s Claw (30/10/2019)
BFI: 10 Lesser-known folk horror films (25/10/2019)
Little White Lies: Tainted Landscapes of And Soon The Darkness (17/10/2019)
Podcast From The Past: Oh Arthur, Put On The Postcard Will You? (16/10/2019)
September
Little White Lies: On Location: The Third Man (1949) and Harry Lime’s Vienna (29/09/2019)
Caught By The River: The Grave of Marguerite Duras (28/09/2019)
Strange Attractor: (Penda’s Fen and Folk Horror) – Of Mud and Flame (04/09/2019)
Little White Lies: On Location: Blow-Up (1966) and Maryon Park (03/09/2019)
August
Caught By The River: Doris Lessing’s Hampstead House (19/08/2019)
BFI: Interview – Chris Petit on Radio On 40 Years Later (21/08/2019)
Little White Lies: On Location: Mon Oncle and Jacques Tati’s Joinville-le-Pont (05/08/2019)
July
Little White Lies: The Sickly Pleasures of Amicus Horror Films (29/07/2019)
The Quietus: (Long Read) The Circular Histories of W.G. Sebald (26/07/2019)
Caught By The River: Georges Perec Exhausting Paris (23/07/2019)
The Double Negative: Mothlight Photo Commentary (19/07/2019)
BBC: Radio 3 Free Thinking (On Thomas Bernhard) (17/02/2019)
BFI: Project Surrealism: The Urban Spaces of La Haine (03/07/2019)
Little White Lies: Duke Ellington and Anatomy Of A Murder (02/07/2019)
Little White Lies: On Location: Varda’s Cleo From 5 To 7 (01/07/2019)
June
BFI: Alan Clarke’s Scum (1979), Still The Daddy (27/06/2019)
BFI: Where to Begin with Claude Chabrol (24/06/2019)
Wyrd Harvest Press: Introduction Urban Wyrd Volume 1(24/06/2019)
Caught By The River: Anita Brookner’s Herne Hill (13/06/2019)
BFI: The Winter of Relationships: Rohmer’s My Night With Maud (12/06/2019)
Little White Lies: After The Wave: Exploring 1970s French Cinema (07/06/2019)
Repeater: We’ll Never Have Paris (In Search of the Grinning Cat) – (03/06/2019)
Little White Lies: On Location: The Bridge from Before Sunrise (02/06/2019)
May
BFI: 10 Essential James Fox Performances (19/05/2019)
BBC: Radio 3, Free Thinking – On W.G. Sebald (15/05/2019)
Caught By The River: Ghosting Thomas Bernhard (14/05/2019)
BFI: Where to Begin with the cinema of Marguerite Duras (13/05/2019)
April
BFI: In Search of the Locations from Henry Cornelius’ Passport To Pimlico (29/04/2019)
BFI: The Ghosts of Mental Illness and Colonialism in Clive Donner’s The Caretaker (25/04/2019)
BFI: In Search of the Locations from Basil Dearden’s Sapphire (17/04/2019)
Little White Lies: Why I Love Max von Sydow’s Performance in Shame (14/04/2019)
Film Panic: Interview (12/04/2019)
Caught By The River: Nick Drake and Hampstead Heath (09/04/2019)
Arrow: Horror Express (DVD booklet essay) (01/04/2019)
March
BBC: (Radio Ulster) The Arts Show (21/03/2019)
Little White Lies: On Location – The Parisian Bridge from Truffaut’s Jules et Jim (10/03/2019)
Caught By The River: Henry Moore in Kennington (09/03/2019)
Sight & Sound: Back To The Old House: Richard Billingham’s Ray & Liz (05/03/2019)
BBC: (Radio 3) – Into The Eerie (03/03/2019)
February
Review 31:Who Killed My Father – Édouard Louis (20/02/2019)
The Quietus: The Much-Missed Radicalism of Derek Jarman (19/02/2019)
Little White Lies: In Praise of Orson Welles’ The Magnificent Ambersons (17/02/2019)
Little White Lies: On Location: Chalfont Castle in Kind Hearts And Coronets (11/02/2019)
Caught By The River: Marcel Proust’s Parisian Houses (10/02/2019)
Little White Lies: Why I Love Barbara Stanwyck’s Performance in Double Indemnity (04/02/2019)
January
BFI: Gone To Earth: Clive Donner’s Rogue Male and Cult Landscapes (26/01/2019)
The Nightjar: The Lonely Ghosts of M.R. James (24/01/2019)
Caught By The River: Frank Auerbach’s Steps at Euston (20/01/2019)
BFI: Five of Michelangelo Antonioni’s Lonely Landscapes (11/01/2019)
Little White Lies: On Location: The House from Michael Haneke’s Hidden (07/01/2019)
2018
December
Caught By The River: Scrooge’s Counting House (24/12/2018)
Sight & Sound: Alain Corneau’s Série Noire (14/12/2018)
The Demented Goddess: The Madonna-Whore Complex in Cinema (11/12/2018)
BFI: 10 Winter Ghost Stories (04/12/2018)
Caught By The River: Exterior At Paddington: Lucian Freud’s Studio (04/12/2018)
November
The Quietus: The Director Who Fell To Earth: Remembering Nicolas Roeg (26/11/2018)
Little White Lies: On Location: The House from Don’t Look Now (21/11/2018)
4th Estate: Kingdom Come – Visiting J.G. Ballard’s House (15/11/2018)
Little White Lies: Why I Love Jean Seberg’s Performance in Breathless (13/11/2018)
Little White Lies: On Location: The Cathedral from The Omen (03/11/2018)
BFI: A Horror Film for Every Year of Eight (1928-2008) (02/11/2018)
Caught By The River: In Search Of Arthur Machen’s Grave (01/11/2018)
October
Review 31: Didier Eribon’s Returning To Reims (20/10/2018)
Little White Lies: Gilliam’s Twelve Monkeys, Marker, Hitchcock and Proust (15/10/2018)
GQ Magazine (November): Performance (1970) – Critical Reception (11/10/2018)
Little White Lies: On Location: The Dalston of Mike Leigh’s Naked (08/10/2018)
The Clearing: Foreshadows Of The Anthropocene in British Television (03/10/2018)
Little White Lies: Carol Reed’s The Fallen Idol and Childhood Loss (01/10/2018)
September
The Nightjar: The Glacial Depression of Adalbert Stifter (25/09/2018)
Little White Lies: In Praise of David Cronenberg’s Dead Ringers (24/09/2018)
Little White Lies: On Location: A Clockwork Orange (16/09/2018)
Caught By The River: Weather Words (short film) (02/09/2018)
The Quietus: Interview: Gideon Koppel on sleep furiously (01/09/2018)
August
BFI: In Search of the Locations from Roeg and Cammell’s Performance (21/08/2018)
BFI: Arcadia – DVD Booklet (Paul Wright Interview) (16/08/2018)
Caught By The River: 1 Filey Avenue – John Berger’s House (16/08/2018)
Little White Lies: Powell & Pressburger’s The Red Shoes and Desire (13/08/2018)
4th Estate: Landscapes of Memory: Alan Garner’s Alderley Edge (11/08/2018)
A2: Wyrd Wirral (Translated) (01/08/2018)
July
Caught By The River: The Victoria Buddleia (18/07/2018)
The Quietus: Driving and Music in Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo (15/07/2018)
Little White Lies: Orson Welles In Decades (12/07/2018)
BFI: Where To Begin With Harold Pinter (05/07/2018)
Little White Lies: Bringing Up Baby and Screwball (01/07/2018)
June
BFI: 10 Great Standing Stones in British Film and Television (21/06/2018)
BFI: Interview with Paul Wright (Arcadia + For Those In Peril) (20/06/2018)
Sight & Sound: Endings: Witchfinder General (16/06/2018)
Sight & Sound: Spaces/Places (Agnès Varda) (16/06/2018)
BFI: Jerzy Skolimowski’s The Shout 40 years on (15/06/2018)
Bafflegab: The Blood On Satan’s Claw (CD booklet essay) (08/06/2018)
May
Little White Lies: Cleo from 5 to 7 (Agnès Varda): City and Gaze (31/05/2018)
Caught By The River: The Clapham Garages (30/05/2018)
BFI: The Terror of the Old Ways: 50 Years of Witchfinder General (19/05/2018)
Scenes Journal: Walking Fractures: Alan Clarke’s Elephant (16/05/2018)
Sight & Sound: Angelic Conversations: Derek Jarman Volume One 1972-1986 (11/05/2018)
BFI: Behind the scenes of Jean-Luc Godard’s Sympathy For The Devil (04/05/2018)
April
BFI: Taboo, Subversion and James Whale’s The Old Dark House (25/04/2018)
Caught By The River: Hay Wain Watcher Watching (20/04/2018)
BFI: In Search of the Locations from Ken Loach’s Kes (14/04/2018)
BFI: Where to Begin with the Quay Brothers (06/04/2018)
March
BFI: In Search of the Locations from Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless (16/03/2018)
BFI: Portrayal of Landscape in Watership Down (12/03/2018)
February
Little White Lies: The Raw Brilliance of Night Of The Living Dead (1968) (16/02/2018)
The Quietus: The Innocent Apocalypse of When The Wind Blows (11/02/2018)
Con.Text Journal Volume 4: VOID – Ozu’s Mu Void. (08/02/2018)
The Quietus: Edgeland Punks and Visionary Alchemists: Derek Jarman’s Jubilee @ 40 (05/02/2018)
January
The Quietus: Instant Stories: Wim Wenders’ Polaroids (21/01/2018)
BFI: The Strangeness in the Land: 40 years of Alan Garner’s Red Shift (17/01/2018)
The Quietus: Interview: Grant Gee on Radiohead’s No Surprises (15/01/2018)
The Quietus: Remembering Mark Fisher with The Caretaker’s Take Care (11/01/2018)
Sight & Sound: Endings: Wild Strawberries (05/01/2018)
BFI: 10 Great “Urban Wyrd” Films (02/01/2018)
2017
December
BFI: Whistle and I’ll Come To You Comparisons (20/12/2017)
Little White Lies: In Praise of Jacques Tourneur’s Night Of The Demon (17/12/2017)
Moore/Reppion: R.S. Hawker and The Botathen Ghost (14/12/2017)
The Quietus: Into The Void: The Photography of Raymond Depardon (09/12/2017)
November
Little White Lies: In Praise of Nicholas Ray’s In A Lonely Place (22/11/2017)
4th Estate: The Synthetic Landscape: J.G. Ballard’s The Terminal Beach (15/11/2017)
Sight & Sound: The Air-conditioned Nightmare: The Air-Con Spaces of Alan J. Pakula (05/11/2017)
The Quietus: A W.G. Sebald Variation: Melancholia (04/11/2017)
October
BFI: An Introduction To Henri-Georges Clouzot (18/10/2017)
Little White Lies: In Praise of Alfred Hitchcock’s North By Northwest (15/10/2017)
3AM Magazine: Interview: Ramsey Campbell on M.R. James (09/10/2017)
Arrow Video: The Ghoul (DVD Booklet) (01/10/2017)
September
The Quietus: Interview: Andrew Kotting on Gallivant (08/09/2017)
July
Little Toller: What Can Folk Horror Tell Us About The Landscape? (14/07/2017)
Sight & Sound: Endings: The Wicker Man (05/07/2017)
BFI: In Search Of The Locations of Joseph Losey’s The Servant (01/07/2017)
June
BFI: Interview: Patrick Keiller on London (28/06/2017)
The Quietus: Eerie Filming In The Holloways Of Dorset (19/06/2017)
BFI: Sam Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs and Folk Horror (06/06/2017)
Uniform Books: Fictions: Arp (Summer Issue, 01/06/2017)
May
BFI: Exoticism and Eroticism in Powel & Pressburger’s Black Narcissus (30/05/2017)
Caught By The River: Folk Horror (27/05/2017)
The Quietus: Alan Clarke’s Scum And The Blurring Of Fact And Fiction (19/05/2017)
April
BFI: Five Films To Watch If You Like Withnail & I (13/04/2017)
BFI: In Search Of The Locations Of Withnail & I (11/04/2017)
March
BFI: 7 Wyrd Television shows from 1977 (20/03/2017)
4th Estate: A Cathode-Ray High-Rise – J.G. Ballard (20/03/2017)
The Quietus: Brexit-Is-Accumen-In: The Wicker Man and Britain Today (10/03/2017)
February
BFI: 50s Years of Peter Watkins’ Privilege (28/02/2017)
BFI: In Search Of The Locations Of Joseph Losey’s Accident (06/02/2017)
2016
December
BFI: 40 Years Of Mike Leigh’s Nuts In May (22/12/2016)
BFI: In Search Of The Locations of Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blowup (18/12/2016)
Caught By The River: Edward Thomas – The Forest Ended (06/12/2016)
November
3AM Magazine: Interview: John Reppion and Leah on M.R. James (18/11/2016)
October
BFI: No Diggin’ ‘ere!: Revisiting the locations of A Warning To The Curious (28/10/2016)
September
The Quietus: Heavy Water and Richard Skelton (27/09/2016)
3AM Magazine: Interview: John Rogers On Psychogeography (26/09/2016)
August
BFI: 10 Great Films Set In The North West (18/08/2016)
Folklore Thursday: Burial and Unearthing In Folk Horror (18/08/2016)
July
BFI: Akenfield: A rural time-collage (29/07/2016)
BFI: Where To Begin With British Psychogeography Cinema (17/07/2016)
June
Caught By The River: If You Put Out Your Hand – Sharron Kraus and Helen Tookey (20/06/2016)
BFI: A Walk Around Alan Clarke’s Old Haunts (14/06/2016)
BFI: Where To Begin With Folk Horror (07/06/2016)
Caught By The River: A Walk By Waiting – Iain Sinclair and Harold Pinter (04/06/2016)
The Double Negative: Interview: Robert Macfarlane On The Eerie (02/06/2016)
May
BFI: 10 Great Experimental Feature Films (06/05/2016)
February
Get Into This: Burial and J.G. Ballard’s The Drowned World (25/02/2016)
2015
December
Get Into This: Five Must See Masterpieces of 2016 (15/12/2015)
November
Get Into This: Ghost Box and Topography of Nostalgia (25/11/2015)
September
Get Into This: Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker and Ambience (14/09/2015)
FACT: 45 Years: The Ghost Under The Ice (01/09/2015)
August
The Times: Ben Rivers Artangel Installation (17/08/2015)
Get Into This: David Cronenberg’s Videodrome and Censorship (05/08/2015)
July
Get Into This: J.G. Ballard and John Foxx’s Metamatic (14/07/2015)
June
Get Into This: Chaos in Jacques Tati’s Playtime (09/06/2015)
May
The Double Negative: Come Back, Africa and Tragedy (20/05/2015)
Caught By The River: Sharron Kraus’ Myths and Landscapes (15/05/2015)
Get Into This: Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye and Disillusionment (05/05/2015)
April
The Double Negative: Freaks (1933) and Disability In Early Horror (22/04/2015)
Get Into This: Rebellion in Carl T. Dreyer’s The Passion Of Joan Of Arc (09/04/2015)
March
The Double Negative: Authority in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (23/03/2015)
Get Into This: Music in Wong Kar Wai’s In The Mood For Love (12/03/2015)
February
Get Into This: Sampling And The Scores Of Max Steiner (17/02/2015)
The Double Negative: Capstone Classics and Bollywood (16/02/2015)
Get Into This: Inherent Vice and New Noir (10/02/2015)
January
Get Into This: Under The Skin and Mica Levi’s Musical Alien (20/01/2015)
Get into This: Five Films To See From Left-Field Cinema (03/01/2015)
2014
December
Get Into This: The Haunted Landscapes of Brian Eno’s Ambient 4 (04/12/2014)
November
Get Into This: Video-Jam: Spaces (26/11/2014)
The Double Negative: Ritual And Magic In the Films Of Maya Deren (20/11/2014)
Get Into This: Immix Ensemble and Vessel (07/11/2014)
The Double Negative: Derek Jarman’s The Last Of England (07/11/2014)
October
Get Into This: Twin Peaks and Musical Otherness (21/10/2014)
Get Into This: The Scores Of Goblin (02/10/2014)
August
Get Into This: The Scores Of Lalo Schifrin (28/08/2014)
The Double Negative: Jean Vigo’s Zero For Conduct (22/08/2014)
Get Into This: The Scores Of Ennio Morricone (05/08/2014)
May
FACT: John Carpenter’s The Thing (16/05/2014)
The Double Negative: Controversy And Ken Russell’s The Devils (09/05/2014)
FACT: Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (08/05/2014)
April
Corridor 8: Magic and Mirrors of Maya Deren (20/04/2014)
March
The Times: Films You Have To See: Jacques Tati Collection (10/03/2014)
Corridor 8: The Narrators: Walker Art Gallery (03/03/2014)
February
The Times: Films You Have To See: Dead Of Night (24/02/2014)
The Double Negative: Boredom and Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver (05/02/2014)
January
The Times: Films You Have To See: The Epic Of Everest (27/01/2014)
2013
December
The Times: Ten Of The Best M.R. James Adaptations (17/12/2013)
The Times: Films You Have To See: The Phantom Of The Opera (04/12/2013)
November
The Times: Films You Have To See: Oldboy (26/11/2013)
The Times: Films You Have To See: Gaslight (19/11/2013)
October
The Spooky Isles: Val Guest’s The Abominable Snowman (17/10/2013)
September
Corridor 8: Seft-1 and Tarkovsky’s Stalker (30/09/2013)
The Double Negative: Nosferatu And Early Horror (23/09/2013)
August
The Spooky Isles: Victor Fleming’s Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde (03/08/2013)
The Spooky Isles: Rouben Mamoulian’s Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde (02/08/2013)
July
The Spooky Isles: Terence Fisher’s Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (27/07/2013)
The Spooky Isles: Terence Fisher’s Frankenstein Created Woman (11/07/2013)
June
The Spooky Isles: Terence Fisher’s The Revenge Of Frankenstein (16/06/2013)
The Double Negative: Thoughts On Citizen Kane (01/07/2013)
May
The Double Negative: Pulp Pleasures: Amicus’ Doctor Who Films (15/05/2013)
April
The Spooky Isles: Freddie Francis’ The Evil Of Frankenstein (27/04/2013)
The Double Negative: Vittorio De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves (15/04/2013)
March
Fact: Derek Jarman And The Music Video (11/03/2013)
Flickfeast: Ten Of The Best: Michel Redgrave (08/03/2013)
January
The Spooky Isles: Cyril Frankel’s The Witches (17/01/2013)
The Double Negative: Questioning In James Whale’s Frankenstein (13/01/2013)
Flickfeast: Ten Of The Best: Dmitri Tiomkin Scores (08/01/2013)
2012
December
The Double Negative: The Night Of The Hunter by Charles Laughton (05/12/2012)
The Guardian: Clip Joint: Beethoven’s 9th (05/12/2012)
October
The Double Negative: Responses: Fallout Factory (22/10/2012)
The Spooky Isles: Don Sharp’s Rasputin The Mad Monk (20/10/2012)
September
The Double Negative: Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds (28/09/2012)
The Double Negative: Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca (18/09/2012)
The Spooky Isles: Leslie Normanit’s X The Unknown (12/09/2012)
The Double Negative: Jean Cocteau’s Orphee (11/09/2012)
August
The Double Negative: Soundtrack Your Life (31/08/2012)
The Spooky Isles: John Gilling’s The Reptile (28/08/2012)
The Spooky Isles: George Waggner’s The Wolf Man (22/08/2012)
The Spooky Isles: A Warning To The Curious and The Stalls Of Barchester (20/08/2012)
The Spooky Isles: Whistle And I’ll Come To You (18/08/2012)
The Spooky Isles: Richard Donner’s The Omen (16/08/2012)
The Spooky Isles: Terence Fisher’s The Mummy (14/08/2012)
The Spooky Isles: BFI Rereleasing BBC Ghost Stories (08/08/2012)
The Spooky Isles: John Gilling’s The Plague Of The Zombies (08/08/2012)
The Spooky Isles: Terence Fisher’s Dracula: Prince of Darkness (04/08/2012)
July
The Spooky Isles: Terence Fisher’s The Devil Rides Out (28/07/2012)
The Double Negative: Bela Tarr’s The Turin Horse (25/07/2012)
The Spooky Isles: Roger Corman’s Tomb Of Ligeia (18/07/2012)
The Spooky Isles: Terence Fisher’s Brides Of Dracula (15/07/2012)
The Double Negative: Jean-Luc Godard’s Alphaville (11/07/2012)
The Spooky Isles: Roy Ward Baker’s Quatermass And The Pit (09/07/2012)
The Double Negative: The Shiny New Festival (09/07/2012)
The Spooky Isles: Val Guest’s Quatermass II (07/07/2012)
The Spooky Isles: Val Guest’s The Quatermass Xperiment (06/07/2012)
The Spooky Isles: The Legacy Of Quatermass (05/07/2012)
June
The Double Negative: Roy Ward Baker’s Quatermass And The Pit (29/06/2012)
The Spooky Isles: James Whale’s The Bride Of Frankenstein (27/06/2012)
The Spooky Isles: Jacques Tourneur’s Night Of The Demon (14/06/2012)
May
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