Why 1973 was the year Sidney Lumet took on police corruption, CrimeReads, March 23, 2023
Is Altman’s The Long Goodbye the Most overrated crime film of 1973? CrimeReads, March 23, 2023
Lost and Found: Top of the Heap, Sight and Sound, April 2023
Mr Inbetween: It’s time to appreciate the genius of this very Australian noir, CrimeReads, January 4, 2023
10 Underappreciated American neo-noirs of the early 1970s, CrimeReads, July 26, 2022
The Story of Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman, and quite possibly the strangest American crime film of the 1970s, CrimeReads, June 16, 2022
50 years of Milano Calibre 9 and Italian cinema’s ultra noir poliziotteschi, CrimeReads, May 6, 2022
Ten underappreciated American noirs of the late 1950s and 1960s, CrimeReads, November 23, 2021
Fifty years later, looking back at the real-life crime network that inspired The French Connection, CrimeReads, October 8, 2021
Fifty years later, Get Carter is still the iconic British gangster film, CrimeReads, March 18, 2021
Ghostly Messages: Australia’s Lost Horror Anthology, The Evil Touch, We Are the Mutants February 18, 2021
10 great Australian New Wave films, British Film Institute, April 16, 2020
MacKenna’s Gold (1969): gold, ghosts and frontier justice, Diabolique Magazine, April 4, 2020
The 10 best Australian Westerns, British Film Institute, February 28, 2020
The Lighthouse, Australian Book Review Arts Update, February 6, 2020
“The horror never leaves my mind.” Ian Sharp’s Who Dares Wins, We Are the Mutants, August 27, 2019
Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan, Australian Book Review Arts Update, August 2, 2019
Writers in Film, Writers Victoria, July 16, 2019
Suspiria, Australian Book Review, Arts Update, November 5, 2018
Wonderland, Australian Book Review, Arts Update, May 7, 2018
Ten great Australian crime films, British Film Institute, April 13, 2018
Surviving the Yuletide Season: Alcohol, Physical Affliction and Murder Down Under in The Evil Touch, Yuletide Terror: Christmas Horror on Film & Television, Spectacular Optical Publications, January 2018
50 years of POINT BLANK: five later thrillers that bend and fragment time, British Film Institute, August 30, 2017
Lost and Found: Uptight, Sight and Sound, March 2017
Lee Marvin: 10 essential films, British Film Institute, February 19, 2017
Jasper Jones, Australian Book Review Arts Update, February 10, 2017
Plastic surgery noir, Do Some Damage, December 13, 2016
Michael Powell in Australia: how the Peeping Tom director made waves down under, British Film Institute, October 12, 2016
The best war film ever made: the 50th anniversary of Gillo Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers, Overland blog, September 8, 2016
10 great biker films, British Film Institute, September 2, 2016
Goldstone, Australian Book Review Arts Update, July 4, 2016
The Omen at 40 and the bloodline of occult cinema, British Film Institute, June 6, 2016
Review of ‘Scorsese’ at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Australian Book Review Arts Update, May 27, 2016
Thirst, 4:3 Film, April 11, 2016
Police Fictions (with Dean Brandum), Overland Magazine, Issue 222, Autumn, 2016
Better Undead, The Big Issue, March 29 – April 7, 2016
Stanley Baker: 10 essential films, British Film Institute, 26 February, 2016
The Spies Next Door, Overland blog, February 5, 2016
The Big Nowhere #5: Shield For Murder, 4:3 Film, December 9, 2015
A long time ago… On TV, The Big Issue, November 27 – December 10, 2015
The Big Nowhere #4: Naked Alibi, 4:3 Film, November 25, 2015
The Big Nowhere #3: Plunder Road, 4:3 Film, November 12, 2015
Spectre, Australian Review of Books Arts Update, November 7, 2015
The Big Nowhere #2: Crashout, 4:3 Film, October 28, 2015
Crime pays: Underbelly, Homicide and Blue Murder Metro Magazine, No. 183, 2015: 50-55
Bowie’s influence on Australian music, Australian Centre For the Moving Image, October 19, 2015
A world apart: The outlaw Michael Howe, Metro Magazine, No. 181, 2014: 42-45
Empty Beaches: In Search of Australia’s Fictional Private Eyes, Los Angeles Review of Books, October 16, 2014
The Big Nowhere #1: The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, 4:3 Film, October 14, 215
Return to The Last Wave, Overland blog, October 6, 2015
Macbeth, Australian Review of Books Arts Update, October 1, 2015
True Grip: why Westerns have a hold on us, The Big Issue, September 25 – October 8, 2015
Doctor who? Peter Cushing’s Dr Who and the Daleks turns 50, British Film Institute, August 23, 2015
The Hunger, Time Out Melbourne, August 22, 2015
Transmission: Legacies of the Television Age, Australian Review of Books, issue no 373, August 2015
Decoding dystopia, Overland blog, July 7, 2015
Transmission: Legacies of the Television Age, Australian Book Review Arts Update, June 15, 2015
Stayin’ alive: how repertory cinema lives on, Spook Magazine, June 7, 2015
Ten great dystopian Australian road films, British Film Institute, May 14, 2015
Leather & Chains: Mad Max’s Lasting Legacy, Spook Magazine, May 14, 2015
The weird & wonderful hidden history of the Logies, Spook Magazine, April 29, 2015
Flickering screens, Overland blog, April 27, 2015
The Ipcress File: The downbeat, alternative & gourmet 007 turns 50, Daily Review, March 20, 2015
Killing in the name of, Overland blog, February 9, 2015
Criss Cross: Hollywood remakes itself again, Daily Review, February 2, 2014
Television’s Homicide still casts its gritty shadow at 50, Daily Review, October 23, 2014
Jodorowsky’s Dune: A great film that was never made, Overland blog, September 1, 2014
Melbourne’s Micro Movie Scene, Time Out Melbourne, August 26, 2014
Backroads Noir in the Australian Outback: David Michôd’s The Rover, Los Angeles Review of Books, July 18, 2014
The business of nostalgia, Overland blog, May 22, 2014
The Cinema of Dystopia: “It’s the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine)”, Shoot Farken, April 22, 2014
Grizzled detectives and women’s bodies, Overland blog, April 3, 2014
Wake In Fright: Dusty and Thirsty In the Outback, Criminal Element, March 9, 2014
The Beat(en) Generation: What Inside Llewyn Davis says about how we live now, Overland blog, February 12, 2014
Unearthing Two Rare Australian Noir Films, Contrappasso, November 2013
‘We need gangsters to get things done‘, Overland blog, August 8, 2013
One mistake is all it takes: the two versions of The Killers, Noir City, September, 2012
A new look at a modern classic: the ultimate revenge in OldBoy, 3rd Korean Film Festival in Australia blog, August 9, 2012
Asia Hand, Crime Factory, December 2011
Cop, Back Alley Noir, March 15, 2011
Heatwave, Back Alley Noir, February 22, 2010
House of Bamboo, back Alley Noir, November 1, 2010
The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Back Alley Noir, September 27 2010
The Square, Back Alley Noir, July 26, 2011
Cutter’s Way, Back Alley Noir, March 15, 2011
Money Movers, a classic noir from Down Under, Back Alley Noir, June 7, 2010
Young and dangerous: two Thai crime films, Crime Factory, issue 4, July 2010
