Selected profiles & interviews

  • How Noelle McCarthy traded gothic fantasy for the comfort of ordinary life - The Post (PDF) (link)

  • Rose Matafeo: ‘My friends have been an unimaginably wise investment’ - The Post (PDF) (link)

  • Yellowface author Rebecca Kuang: ‘I become a new person every year’ - The Post (PDF) (link)

  • Ten years ago, Beulah Koale’s Hollywood career took off. It was the ‘worst time’ in his life - The Post (PDF) (link)

  • ‘There’s a perception of real toxicity‘: Author Tony Tulathimutte on the pains of rejection in the digital age - The Post (PDF) (link)

  • Marty Supreme breakout Odessa A’zion on matching Timothée Chalamet’s fire - The Post (PDF) (link)

  • North Star: How Lydia Peckham turned grief and grit into a Hollywood breakthrough - The Post (PDF) (link)

  • Tinā: the tiny, big-hearted New Zealand movie that became a smash hit – against the odds - The Guardian Australia (link)

  • Four favourites with Melanie Lynskey - Letterboxd (link)

  • Bic Runga’s new dawn: Motherhood, returning to Paris, and her first album in a decade - The Post (PDF) (link)

  • Sir Dave Dobbyn on grief, growing older and early regrets: ‘It was a very weird time in New Zealand’ - The Post (PDF) (link)

  • Thomasin McKenzie on fame, fulfilment and finding the joy - The Post (PDF) (link)

  • Rage Against the Regime: Gladiator II’s Paul Mescal, Denzel Washington, Pedro Pascal and more on legacy and tyranny - Letterboxd (link) (video)

  • The Lonely Club: All of Us Strangers director Andrew Haigh on tender sex, euphoric dancing and awkward parental chats - Letterboxd (link)

  • Director Oliver Hermanus on the Quiet Power of ‘The History of Sound’ - Mastermind Paris

  • Mistress Dispeller: A Startling Study of China’s Undercover Love Doctors - AnOther

  • Campion of the World: Jane Campion on making New Zealand’s Wuthering Heights and her own free film school - Letterboxd (link)

Other writing

  • Are we in a ‘Friendship Recession’? Why making friends as an adult feels harder than ever - The Post (PDF) (link)

  • Where Bluebirds Sing: twenty years of the profound, tragic beauty of Brokeback Mountain - Letterboxd (link)

  • More Teeth: From Jurassic Park to Rebirth, the legacy and future of dinosaurs in cinema - Letterboxd (link)

  • Local heart, global ambition: Meet the artists shaping Aotearoa’s pop music renaissance - The Post (PDF) (link)

  • Eddington Review: Ari Aster’s Surreal, Violent Satire of Covid-Era Madness - AnOther (link)

  • Remembering the promise and thrill of Waiwera Hot Pools - The Spinoff (link)

  • The first pint of freedom: London takes a step towards normality - The Spinoff (link)

  • The UK’s horrific Covid outbreak, through the eyes of a NZ nurse on the frontlines (link)