Maserati: A Hundred Years Against All Odds (2019)

Philip Selkirk’s documentary on the history of legendary Italian car company Maserati opens with the words of Winston Churchill from a speech delivered in Harrow School in the early 1940s. “Never give in. Never, never, never, never – in nothing, great or small.” So begins a comprehensive re-telling of the company’s past – from close-knit…

Po-Chih Leong’s PING PONG: An Examination Of Language & Identity | Film Inquiry

In more exciting news, earlier this month I was accepted onto the Film Inquiry team as a Staff Writer. My first piece was published this week, which is an extension of my dissertation on British Multilingual Cinema. It looks at Po-Chih Leong’s Ping Pong (1986) and the conversations surrounding language, culture and identity. Find it here, and…

‘Atlantics’ and the Transformative Power of Water | Little White Lies

So this week two of my career goals came true. I got paid for my first ever piece of writing, and I wrote for the brilliant film magazine Little White Lies on Mati Diop’s beautfiul and haunting film Atlantics.  Check out my piece here! In case you misssed it earlier in the year, you can…

Now on Netflix: Support the Girls (2018)

A quietly uplifting film about friendships, found families and the not-entirely-great jobs that many of us put up with in order to get by, Support the Girls is a big-hearted comedy with a understating and loving performance by Regina Hall. General manager of the “breastaurant” Double Whammies Lisa (Regina Hall) has enough to deal with  before…