Science, philosophy and the enduring gender-nonconforming creative lunacy of Real Genius

From Orlando to Perks of Being a Wallflower, the journey to self-acceptance remains a wild ride

Marilyn Monroe, my grandmother Doris and the haunting depressive beauty of The Misfits

Life’s Labyrinth, or How One Cinematic Sarah Leads to Another (just without the “h”)

Sean Connery, the Art/Artist Debate and Longing to be a “Golden Girl”

Dragonslayer, gender and the myth of the so-called “guilty pleasure”

From Mascara to Boys Don’t Cry, the films that shape us are always a surprise

How I lost it at the drive-in and fell in love with the movies

In a 2020 unlike anything I could have imagined beforehand, writing about the year in film feels understandably strange.