Christina Newland
All articles by Christina Newland
Reviews
The Iron Claw: a devastating story of real wrestling legend
Sean Durkin’s elegant portrait of the Von Erich wrestling family shows how hard-driven masculine legacy can both enrich and devastate a family.
By Christina Newland
The Iron Claw: a devastating story of real wrestling legend
Reviews
Give Me Pity: Amanda Kramer’s sparkling 1980s TV daydream moves to its own demented rhythm
By Christina Newland
Obituaries
Raquel Welch obituary: screen sensation who transcended sex-symbol roles
By Christina Newland
10 great
10 great films of 1998
By Grace Barber-Plentie, Henry Barnes and others
Interviews
“I’m not interested in reality, I’m interested in the images”: Andrew Dominik on Blonde
By Christina Newland
Festivals
Triangle of Sadness: Ruben Östlund’s savage castaway satire finds humanity all at sea
By Christina Newland
Festivals
EO: Jerzy Skolimowski’s donkey fable decries human greed and folly
By Christina Newland
Festivals
Final Cut! makes a self-satisfied muddle out of its zombie-horror spoof
By Christina Newland
Features
“Kill all hippies”: the punk nihilism of Dennis Hopper’s Out of the Blue
By Christina Newland
Features
“You throw Black people in a western and it’s like sci-fi”: Director Jeymes Samuel on The Harder They Fall
By Christina Newland
Features
Call me by my name: Thandiwe Newton and the whitewashing of film stars’ names
By Christina Newland
Best of 2020
In Birds of Prey, Harley Quinn lets her hair down
By Christina Newland
Interviews
“In the end you can’t help but make stuff in a postmodern way”: Ben Wheatley on re-filming Rebecca
By Christina Newland
Interviews
“Why fight for a country when they lynch you?” Spike Lee on Da 5 Bloods and American lies
By Christina Newland
Features
All I desire: women watching men at the movies
By Christina Newland
Reviews
Joker review: Joaquin Phoenix’s alienated antihero is no laughing matter
By Christina Newland
Where to begin
Where to begin with Vincente Minnelli
By Christina Newland
Reviews
Marriage Story review: Noah Baumbach’s divorce tale has the rueful ring of truth
By Christina Newland
Interviews
Why bad taste is over – An interview with John Waters
By Christina Newland
Features
Pauline Kael and the men from dream city
By Christina Newland
Features
Pretty young things: how Leo, Brad, Johnny and Winona redefined the 90s A-list
By Christina Newland