Portfolio

Essays and reviews that (are not limited to and) have been published elsewhere:

The Spectator World:

• The Business of the Criterion Collection - 7 April 2023

• Why Beef is in a class of its own - 6 May 2023

PopMatters:

• Project X At 10 - 30 November 2022

Quillette:

• The Radicalization of the Film Canon - Dec 19, 2022

• The Twilight of the Australian Liberal Party - May 30, 2022

• The Cancellation of Cruising – July 27, 2020 (was originally published in Rebeller Media)

The New York Sun:

• A Defense of The Idol - 13 July 2023

• Why So Many Young Men Look Up to Ryan Gosling - 1 Aug 2023

Washington Examiner:

• The Blurred Lines moral panic, 10 Years Later - May 12, 2023

The Critic:

• In Defense of Fandoms - 20 April 2023

• Barry Humphries and the Myth of the Larrikin - 26 April 2023

• In Praise of Short Shows - June 22 2023

Rebeller Media (RIP):

• TFW No GF Review – May 2, 2020 (now republished)

• Viewing Alone – 19 March 2020

• Print’s Dead Zed: An Ode To Film Comment and Beyond – 31 March 2020 (now republished)

• F-Bombs: Killing Them Softly – 24 January 2020 (now republished)

• On The Rise of Jordan Peterson – 31 December 2019

Vague Visages:

• The Cinematic Stylings of The Weeknd – 20 March 2020

Splice Today:

• Reflections of a Rebeller - 18 February 2021

• The Last Video Store in Sydney – 9 March 2022 (was originally published in Rebeller Media)

• The Soul of Wesley Yang - Apr 19, 2021

• Year of Joker - 6 Oct 2020 (was originally published in Rebeller Media)

• Dave Rubin and the Appeal of Political Conversions – 29 May 2020

• On Giorgio Moroder’s Metropolis – April 23, 2020

• On Dragged Across Concrete – 19 December 2019

Areo Magazine:

• Joint Book Review: Tucker Carlson’s Ship of Fools and Stephen Harper’s Right Here, Right Now – 14 February 2019

The Spectator Australia (Flat White blog):

• The Triple J Hottest 100 sucks - 28 January 2019

• The Sliming of Roger Scruton - 13 November 2018

• Taylor Swift Isn’t Interested in Your Politics – 25 June 2018

Penthouse Australia:

• Isle of Dogs and the Language of Wes Anderson – 16 April 2018

Arc Digital:

• Apu, Diane Nguyen and Representation in Animation – 13 November 2018