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The Independent is a national newspaper. I've been contributing editorial work to their online edition since early 2020. Click the images below to read my work.

Cool Runnings at 30, as told by its stars: ‘They wanted us to sound like Sebastian the Crab’

‘I was strangely upbeat after my heart attack’: Bob Odenkirk on his brush with death and new mid-life crisis comedy

‘You’ll never see Michael Caine blink’: An oral history of The Muppet Christmas Carol at 30

‘There was a no-asshole policy on set’: An oral history of Scrubs

‘I had to convince Ricky to keep in the David Brent dance’: An oral history of The Office

‘Macaulay Culkin would try to make me laugh during takes’: An oral history of Home Alone

How GoldenEye inspired a video game classic

Ryan Reynolds’s Home Alone reboot is ‘an insult to the art of cinema’, says original director Chris Columbus

Malcolm in the Middle at 20: ‘Everybody calls them dysfunctional – but it was a realistic family’

‘I’d feel like my blood was boiling’: The true story of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the heroes in a half-shell who shook the world

‘We were around each other more than our family’: An oral history of Community

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