A complete (ish) portfolio of my broadcast, print and online media appearances to date. You'll find my academic writing listed on the Publications page.
I am a member of the London Critics' Circle (Film Section) and a certified film critic with Rotten Tomatoes.
Broadcast appearances
Reviews and expert commentary (general) Jurassic Park's legacy, BBC Radio Berkshire, August 22, 2023. The 'Barbenheimer' phenomenon and what it means for cinema, Newshour, BBC World Service, July 24, 2023. Contributor, “Why Going to the Cinema is Good for You,” BBC Ideas, March 6, 2023 - watch here. Sight & Sound's Greatest Films of All Time 2022 poll results, The World Tonight, BBC Radio 4, December 1, 2022 - listen here. Critics (October 12, 2021) and Franchises (October 28, 2021) episodes of Women vs Hollywood with Helen O'Hara podcast - listen here and here. Contributor on BBC Radio Scotland The Afternoon Show, 2019-2021. Film Reviewer - various dates, films including Animals, The Dead Don’t Die, Terminator: Dark Fate, Little Women, Honey Boy, Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker, and Vivarium. Should We Listen to Film critics? The Morning Show, BBC Scotland, December 20, 2019. Resurrecting James Dean in New War Film – BBC Radio Scotland, November 8, 2019. The Scorsese vs Marvel debate - BBC Radio Scotland, October 25, 2019. James Bond and the representation of women, BBC Radio Scotland, July 16, 2019. LGBT representation in the Marvel franchise, BBC Radio Scotland, May 8, 2019. Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Bond, The Nine, BBC Scotland, April 15, 2019. Creative Scotland and Scottish television funding, Scotland Tonight, STV, August 21, 2018. Netflix and the Cannes Film Festival, Scotland Tonight, STV, March 2018. Mabel Normand, Woman’s Hour, BBC Radio 4, August 2015. Interview on Mabel Normand and women filmmakers in early Hollywood.
Star Wars (and EIF project) Environmental Impact of Filmmaking project discussions and interviews appeared across local and national radio Nov 2024 - Feb 2025, including on BBC Radio 4's Rare Earth (Dec 13), BBC Radio Gloucestershire, BBC Radio Solent, and Greatest Hits Radio. Artoo-Detoo emissions, Look East, ITV Anglia, September 21, 2023. James Earl Jones, Darth Vader, and the ethics of AI in Star Wars, Newshour, BBC World Service, and PM, BBC Radio 4, September 24, 2022. The Empire Strikes Back Part One and Two, Bloomsbury Academic podcast, September 16 and 30, 2022 - listen here and here. Princess Leia, Princess podcast for BBC Radio 4 with Anita Anand and Maddie Moate, July 2022 - listen here. The Empire Strikes Back, Projection Booth podcast, June 2, 2021 - listen here. The Empire Strikes Back: Examining the Story Behind the Story, Slice of SciFi podcast, December 9, 2020 - listen here. The Empire Strikes Back, New Book Network podcast, November 30, 2020 - listen here. Jyn Erso and Rogue One, Heroes of the Galaxy podcast, June 26, 2020 - listen here. May the 4th Be With You, The Cosmic Shed podcast, May 4, 2020 - listen here. Star Wars and Fandom, The Current, CBC, December 20, 2019. Star Wars and The Rise of Skywalker: BBC Ulster, December 18, 2019 and BBC Wales, December 19, 2019. Star Wars release, The Afternoon Show, BBC Radio Scotland, December 17, 2019. Star Wars and its popularity with audiences - BBC Radio Ulster, October 23, 2019. The Rise of Skywalker and responses to the trailer - BBC 5 Live News, October 22-23, 2019. The Rise of Skywalker trailer release - BBC Radio 4, PM, October 22, 2019. Episode 37 - Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Fantasy Animation Podcast, 2019 - listen here. Russian Trolls 'Pushed their Agenda' with Star Wars Critiques, Study Suggests, The Current, CBC Radio (Canada), October 8, 2018. Star Wars and representation, Fan Girls Going Rogue podcast, June 27, 2018 - listen here. Star Wars and screen time for women, Newsdrive, BBC Radio Scotland, June 1, 2018 - listen here. Why Solo Never Wants to Know the Odds, Beyond Bechdel podcast, June 2, 2018 - listen here.
Railways Train Culture (March 26, 2022) and Railroad Movies (April 10, 2022) episodes of Roundhouse Crosstalk podcast - listen here.
Gender-based violence Contributor, “Degrees of Abuse,” episodes 5 and 6, Al Jazeera, November 2, 2021 - listen here. Women's clothing and safety in public space, Drive Time, BBC Three Counties Radio, September 4, 2018.
Writing
Higher education research & analysis Rebecca Harrison and David Harvie, Universities Degraded: Staff Experiences & Employer Practices of Redundancies in UK Higher Education, June 2025. “Gender-Based Violence: A Call to Action for FE and HE,” UCU Commons blog, March 21, 2023 - read it here. “Fuck the Canon (or, How Do You Solve a Problem Like von Trier?): Teaching, Screening, and Writing About Cinema in the Age of #MeToo,” MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture 1, no. 2 (2018): online - read it here. “Athena SWAN is an Ugly Duckling,” Times Higher Education Supplement, May 3, 2018 - read it here. “On Brilliance: Making Light of Women's Creative Labour,” MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture, May 1, 2018 - read it here.
Film festival/industry reports and interviews “Greening Film and Television to Save Our Blue Planet,” OpenLearn, November 30, 2022 - read it here. “LFF in VR: Asif Kapadia's Ode to A Dog in Space,” Sight & Sound 31, no.10 (2021): 9-10. “Exploring Virtual Realities at the BFI London Film Festival 2021,” Sight & Sound, October 28, 2021 - read it here. “Co-ordinating Intimacy: Making Sex Scenes Safe,” Sight & Sound, October 14, 2019 – read it here. “Cannes: Bull Director Annie Silverstein on Rodeo Culture and the Realities of On-Set Childcare,” Women & Hollywood, May 24, 2019. “Alienation and the Limits of Access at Edinburgh 2018,” Sight and Sound, July 11, 2018 - read it here. “From Ocean’s 8 to #MeToo: Why the Gender Bias in Film Criticism Matters,” ProspectMagazine, June 21, 2018 - read it here. “Raze the Red carpet: Cannes 2018 Responds to #MeToo,” Sight and Sound, May 21, 2018 - read it here.
Star Wars research & analysis “I Went to Hoth to Go Behind the Scenes of The Empire Strikes Back at 40,” The Mary Sue, December 24, 2020 - read it here. “Queer Empire: On the 40th Anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back,” LA Review of Books, May 21, 2020 - read it here. “The Rise of Skywalker Achieved Gender Parity, Still Needed More Women of Color,” The Mary Sue, May 4, 2020 - read it here. “I Know Because It's Me: Women and Archiving in Star Wars,” Contingent, December 8, 2019 - read it here. “Why is Star Wars' Inclusiveness Getting So Much Hate Now When It Was Celebrated in the Past?” The Mary Sue, September 10, 2018 - read it here. “Why I Decided to Cut All the Men Out of Star Wars, and What it Showed Me,” Women and Hollywood, June 11, 2018 - read it here.
Theatre programmes ‘Who Were Mack & Mabel?’ Mack & Mabel theatre programme, Chichester Theatre and UK touring editions, 2015.
Film, TV & book reviews “2073: Asif Kapadia’s Genre-Bending Vision of a Bleak Future Deflates Rather than Mobilises,” Sight & Sound, January 6, 2025 - read it here. “A Place Without Fear,” Sight & Sound, Winter, 2024. “Back to Black: Amy Winehouse Biopic Fails in its Aspirations to Focus on the Music,” Sight & Sound, April 10, 2024 - read it here. “Cat Person: This Messy Adaptation of Kristen Roupenian's Short Story is Devoid of Nuance,” Sight & Sound, October 24, 2023 - read it here. “Celluloid Underground: A Lyrical Tribute to the Material Beauty of Film,” Sight & Sound, October 16, 2023 - read it here. “Is 'Barbenheimer' Going to Save Cinema?,” Open Learn, August 14, 2023 - read it here. “Shabu,” Sight & Sound, Summer 2023, p.127. “Polite Society: A Genre-Jumping Debut with an Anarchic Sense of Fun,” Sight & Sound, April 27, 2023 - read it here. “Get Out” and “The Red Shoes,” Sight & Sound Greatest Films of All Time 2022 - read comments here and here. “Little Women,” Sight & Sound 32, no. 10 (2022): 86. “She Said: A Powerful Call to Arms in the Struggle Against Patriarchy,” Sight & Sound, October 17, 2022 - read it here. “Meet Me in the Bathroom: A Nostalgic Indie Rock Theme-Park Ride,” Sight & Sound, October 14, 2022 - read it here. “Call Jane: A Powerful, Timely Pro-Choice Drama,” Sight & Sound, October 14, 2022 - read it here. “Girls Can't Surf: A Bittersweet Story of Women in the Waves,” Sight & Sound, August 19, 2022 - read it here. “A League of Their Own: Stirring Baseball Drama,” Sight & Sound, August 18, 2022 - read it here. “Bullet Train: Mind the Gap Between Its Ears,” Sight & Sound, August 4, 2022 - read it here. “The Railway Children Return: A Big Hearted Yet Nostalgic Railway Ride,” Sight & Sound, July 15, 2022 - read it here. “Faithless,” Sight & Sound 32, no. 5 (2022): 93. “True Things: An Uneasy Psychological Character Study,” Sight & Sound, April 1, 2022 - read it here. “Pam & Tommy is an Entertaining But Ultimately Hypocritical Take on 90s Celebrity Culture,” Sight & Sound, February 1, 2022 - read it here. “The Mad Women's Ball,” Sight & Sound 31, no. 10 (2021): 82. “House of Gucci: A Tragi-Comic Triumph,” Sight & Sound, November 25, 2021 - read it here. “Curse of the Chippendales Explores Gender Dynamics of Stripping in the 1980s,” Sight & Sound, October 18, 2021 - read it here. “The Chair Studies the Absurdities of Academia,” Sight & Sound, August 27, 2021 - read it here. “The Mandalorian Season 2 Seeks Hope in a Bruised and Battered Galaxy,” Sight & Sound, December 21, 2020 - read it here. “Industry Doesn't Work For Us,” Sight & Sound, December 2, 2020 - read it here. “Limbo Gives a Scottish Welcome to Four Far-Flung Refugees,” Sight & Sound, October 15, 2020 - read it here. “Tenet is a Fast-Forward Blockbuster Worth a Rewind Viewing,” Screen Queens, August 26, 2020 - read it here. “Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker Review: New Hope Springs Eternal,” Sight & Sound, December 19, 2019 - read it here. “How the Lighthouse Makes a Monster of Capitalism,” LA Review of Books Blog, November 11, 2019 – read it here. “LFF Review: Love, Life and Laughter,” Silent London, October 28, 2019 – read it here. “Our Ladies Review: Catholic Lasses Go Wild,” Sight & Sound, October 11, 2019 – read it here. “Make Up Review: A Thrillingly Queer Tangle in a Cornish Campsite,” Sight & Sound, October 10, 2019 - read it here. “Ad Astra: An ‘Angstonaut’ Journey into a Spaceman’s Psyche,” Birth, Movies, Death, September 24, 2019 – read it here. “I Used to Be Normal: A Boyband Fangirl Story is an Important Look Beyond the Shrieking Stereotypes,” Mary Sue, September 23, 2019 – read it here. “Cannes 2019 Review: Lux Æterna Reveals the Eternal Darkness of Cinema Made by Men,” Birth, Movies, Death, May 20, 2019 – read it here. “Cannes 2019 Review: Pain And Glory is a Bittersweet Journey to the Heart of a Cinephile,” Birth, Movies, Death, May 20, 2019 – read it here. “Too Old to Die Young first look: Nicolas Winding Refn Depopulates the Small Screen,” Sight & Sound, May 18, 2019 – read it here. “Rocketman review: An Out and Proud Elton John Musical Biopic,” Sight & Sound, May 17, 2019 – read it here. “Bull first look: A Bucking Portrait of a Rodeoing Odd Couple,” Sight & Sound, May 16, 2019 – read it here. “Book Review: Star Wars: Queen’s Shadow Is the Padmé Story Her Fans Deserve,” The Mary Sue, March 9, 2019 - read it here. “Book Review: Stranger Things: Suspicious Minds Puts Hawkins’ Past in a New Perspective,” The Mary Sue, February 13, 2019 - read it here. “George Michael: Freedom First-Look Review,” Little White Lies, June 26, 2018 - read it here. “Cannes First Look: Little Tickles is an Unflinching Exploration of Abuse and Therapy,” Sight and Sound, May 24, 2018 - read it here. “Cannes First Look: My Favourite Fabric Unwraps Women's Lives in the Arab Spring,” Sight and Sound, May 16, 2018 - read it here.