Chloe Walker

United Kingdom

Contributing Writer at Culturefly

Films and stuff. Writing about 70s TV movies (@PasteMagazine), classic Hollywood (@BFI), current releases (@Culturefly), and podcasts (@Pod_Review).

Articles

10 great films featuring dual performances

1 week ago | bfi.org.uk | Rory Doherty |Chloe Walker |Sam Wigley

To date, Michael B. Jordan has appeared in every Ryan Coogler film. As if to make up for only giving him a single scene in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022), Coogler’s new project, Sinners, casts Jordan in two lead roles: twin Mississippi gangsters Smoke and Stack, whose attempts to start a juke joint with bootlegging money in the Jim-Crow-era south attracts the attention of less than friendly visitors.
Book Review: Sky Daddy by Kate Folk

2 weeks ago | culturefly.co.uk | Chloe Walker

Linda is a woman in her early 30s who is sexually attracted to airplanes. Yes, she’s aware this is – unusual. That doesn’t stop her from living as frugally as she can, to save up as much money as possible for ‘dates’ with these fine denizens of the sky. She knows that her friends and family would find her true desires horrifying, and she’s accustomed to keeping them hidden.
Scratch & Win Is a Fascinating but Unfocused History of the Lottery

3 weeks ago | podcastreview.org | Chloe Walker

The statistics are mind-boggling. In the first episode of Scratch & Win, we learn that Americans spend more on lottery tickets each year than on pizza. More than on all Coca-Cola products. More than on concert, movie, and sports tickets combined. Those facts alone are enough to justify the existence of WGBH’s eight-part podcast about how the Massachusetts State Lottery came to be. Here’s another fact.
Paul Walter Hauser Endearingly Presses His Luck as The Luckiest Man in America

3 weeks ago | pastemagazine.com | Chloe Walker

Michael Larson’s Wikipedia page recounts the story of a man who has lived one hell of a life. For the most part, however, The Luckiest Man in America is only interested in a single day of it. The year is 1984. After being taken pity on by producer Bill Carruthers (David Strathairn) following a bumbling audition, ice cream seller Michael Larson (Paul Walter Hauser) is cast as a contestant on the popular TV quiz show Press Your Luck.
Deeply moving found-family story Bob Trevino Likes It earns its earnestness

1 month ago | avclub.com | Chloe Walker

Robert Trevino (French Stewart) is the sort of dad who presents his adult daughter Lily (Barbie Ferreira) with an itemized list of all the expenses he’s incurred while raising her. “I’m not saying you owe me, I just wanted you to know what you cost me,” is his explanation. Robert Trevino is not a good father. Nevertheless, Lily does all she can to be supportive, despite never receiving any emotional reciprocation.
Deeply moving found-family story Bob Trevino Likes It earns its earnestness

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Chloe Walker

Robert Trevino (French Stewart) is the sort of dad who presents his adult daughter Lily (Barbie Ferreira) with an itemized list of all the expenses he’s incurred while raising her. “I’m not saying you owe me, I just wanted you to know what you cost me,” is his explanation. Robert Trevino is not a good father. Nevertheless, Lily does all she can to be supportive, despite never receiving any emotional reciprocation.
Scratch & Win is a Fascinating but Unfocused History of the Lottery

1 month ago | podcastreview.org | Chloe Walker

The statistics are mind-boggling. In the first episode of Scratch & Win, we learn that Americans spend more on lottery tickets each year than on pizza. More than on all Coca-Cola products. More than on concert, movie, and sports tickets combined. Those facts alone are enough to justify the existence of WBUR’s eight-part podcast about how the Massachusetts State Lottery came to be. Here’s another fact.
Glasgow Film Festival 2025: The best of the rest of the fest

1 month ago | culturefly.co.uk | Chloe Walker

The 21st edition has been another great Glasgow Film Festival. Here are some more of the highlights we didn’t have room for in our main coverage:GhostlightAfter a tragedy strikes his family, construction worker Dan (Keith Kupferer) is recruited to act in an amateur production of Romeo and Juliet – later, his teenage daughter Daisy (Katherine Mallen Kupferer) signs up too. The play gives them space to process the feelings they’d tried to bury.
Glasgow Film Festival Interview: Michael Premo discusses the production process for Homegrown and what happened afterwards

1 month ago | culturefly.co.uk | Chloe Walker

Homegrown follows three ‘Proud Boys’ (the far-right fascist group Trump famously told to ‘stand up and stand by’ during his first term in office), in the lead up to, during, and after the January 6thinsurrection on the U.S Capitol. I spoke to director and former Occupy Wall Street activist Michael Premo, who made the film with partner and sound recordist Rachel Falcone, about the production process, what happened afterwards, and where he finds hope.
Restless - Glasgow Film Festival 2025 Review

1 month ago | culturefly.co.uk | Chloe Walker

After her father’s recent death, and her son leaving for university, Nicky (Lyndsey Marshal) is on her own for the first time in many years. Though she misses them both dearly, she has a lot of peaceful activities – yoga, baking, listening to classical music – to keep her busy between her shifts as an underpaid, overworked carer. But then Dean (Aston McAuley) moves in next door, and her life becomes a nightmare. Every night he and his gang party so loud their shared wall vibrates.