This brought me so much joy 🥹

Fantastic start to the While We Watched / नमस्कार मैं रवीश कुमार Q&A tour! Heartening to see the response. Next stop with ravish ndtv & Vinay: Rio Cinema, Wed 12 July, moderated by Simran Hans. 🎟️: riocinema.org.uk/movie/while-we…

So good and TRUE

Told mum I didn’t get Eras tour tickets and she said “Well at least you’ve seen Beyonce” and tbh SHE’S RIGHT

Jessica DeFino on BARBIE, beauty culture, 'awareness' and 'empowerment' jessicadefino.substack.com/p/barbie-movie…

Very good piece by Manuela Lazić about how critical thinking and film criticism have been devalued and de-incentivised. It has changed SO much since I started writing about movies 10 years ago

This broken app is blocking links from a certain newsletter platform but jemma desai on Sinead O'Connor, the pain we inherit and carry, and the people who do and don't hold us is so beautiful and vulnerable, a tribute to the artist in the spirit of her linktr.ee/iamjemmadesai

I took part in a watch party of the adorable new series of HEARTSTOPPER with a group of brilliant and whip-smart teens I met via The Mosaic Trust. Then we discussed. For The New York Times, one of my fave stories I’ve done in AGES nytimes.com/2023/08/04/art…

I have a review of the gorge PAST LIVES in this issue

EXCITED FOR THIS

Wrote this piece for The New York Times on the lovely SCRAPPER, talking to the v talented Charlotte Regan, Lola Campbell and Danny Leigh also 🔧 nytimes.com/2023/08/18/mov…

Monocle on Culture: Robert Bound is joined in the studio by Simran Hans and Will Hodgkinson to discuss the new A24 4K restoration of ‘Stop Making Sense’ and if it is the greatest concert movie of all time monocle.com/radio/shows/mo…

Popping in for a brief stroll over the coals of this platform's dying embers... If you see me around the London Film Festival, say hello! I am still writing about movies just not #onhere :)

Also wtf why didn't anyone tell me how good EILEEN is

I see there are still tickets to see TÓTEM on Monday at LFF, IMO it is a stunner whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/def…

I need to see the Annie Baker movie this is a SIMRAN EMERGENCY

Mike Leigh is the only person who could make me break my silence #OnHere I AM SEATED AND READY TO WRITE ABOUT THIS FLM