Writer; mostly movies.
Sam Shakusky Goes To College: An Interview with Jared Gilman
At Bright Wall/Dark Room, for the Childhood issue.
On Spike Jonze's Her
For the 100 Films | 100 Scenes project, based on the BBC 100 Best Films of the 21st Century list.
Towards a True Children’s Cinema: on My Neighbor Totoro
at Bright Wall/Dark Room, for the Studio Ghibli issue.
Shut Up and Sing: Is Hollywood Actually Secretly Conservative?
On whether it actually makes sense to think of Hollywood as liberal, for VICE.
Death is the Curator: An Interview with Guillermo del Toro
at Bright Wall/Dark Room
Witch-Craft: Why Robert Eggers is Our Next Great Filmmaker
for Bright Wall/Dark Room's Best of 2016 issue
This Mass of Conflicting Impulses: A Former Teen Narcissist Watches Margaret
for Bright Wall/Dark Room's issue on Kenneth Lonergan's Margaret
On Kiarostami's Ten
For the 100 Films, 100 Scenes project, based on the BBC 100 Best Films of the 21st Century List.
Sacred Texts and Ruined Childhoods: On Aronofksy's Noah
For Bright Wall/Dark Room, featured on RogerEbert.com
I'm A Feminist, And I Loved The Neon Demon • Gradient
Everyone called Nicolas Winding Refn's new movie misogynistic. Did everyone get it wrong?
Possessed: Vertigo, through Her Eyes
Bright Wall/Dark Room November 2015 (RogerEbert.com)
I am Jack’s Loving Eye: Suffering and Renewal in Room
on Room, the defamiliarizing power of art, suffering, Simon Weil, Pasolini
First Love, Last Love: Courtship Culture and the Teen Cancer Romance
for Christianity Today
Killing the Spirit of Fear: How Female Action Heroes Can Help Women Live Courageously
At Christ and Pop Culture.