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

Blink's Incredible Story of Recovery Succumbs to Tropes

2 days ago | podcastreview.org | Chloe Walker

One day in May 2017, Jake Haendel was pulled over for driving dangerously. Rightfully so, as he was high on heroin. But it wasn’t the drugs that had been having this strange effect on his body. It was as if he was losing control of it completely. Days after his arrest, things got so bad that he wound up in the emergency room. He was diagnosed with toxic progressive leukoencephalopathy, a rare disease that eats away at the white matter of your brain.
10 great films about popes

1 week ago | bfi.org.uk | David Parkinson |Josh Slater-Williams |Chloe Walker |Rory Doherty

The papacy and cinema go back a long way. Leo XIII became the first moving picture pope in July 1896, with successor Pius X being filmed in 1907. He would become the first cine-saint when he was canonised in 1954, two years after Henri Vidon had played him in The Secret Conclave (1952), which was the first feature to recreate a papal election. Pius actually disapproved of moving images and forbade their exhibition in churches in 1909.
Seeking Mavis Beacon Review

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

Do you remember If you’re of a certain age, Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing may well have been formative for you. Launched in 1987, the instructional software programme had sold over 6 million copies by 1999, and was still releasing new editions as recently as 2021. People all over the world owe their ability to type to Mavis Beacon – who groundbreakingly for the era the programme was created, was a Black woman.
Josh Hartnett is first class in the otherwise dreadful action film Fight Or Flight

1 week ago | avclub.com | Chloe Walker

It’s a funny thing to be experiencing “difficult second movie syndrome” when you’ve made over 40 of them, but then, Josh Hartnett has had a funny career. After years in the relative wilderness, Hartnett’s terrific performance as the doting dad/serial killer in 2024’s Trap reintroduced audiences to a man who was leading back-to-back blockbusters 20 years earlier. That thriller, as a whole, got a mixed reception, but Harnett’s kinetic, dexterous, wildly entertaining performance was widely adored.
Josh Hartnett is first class in the otherwise dreadful action film Fight Or Flight

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Chloe Walker

It’s a funny thing to be experiencing “difficult second movie syndrome” when you’ve made over 40 of them, but then, Josh Hartnett has had a funny career. After years in the relative wilderness, Hartnett’s terrific performance as the doting dad/serial killer in 2024’s Trap reintroduced audiences to a man who was leading back-to-back blockbusters 20 years earlier. That thriller, as a whole, got a mixed reception, but Harnett’s kinetic, dexterous, wildly entertaining performance was widely adored.
10 great Japanese time-travel films

1 week ago | bfi.org.uk | Josh Slater-Williams |Chloe Walker |Rory Doherty

At the 48th edition of the Japan Academy Film Prize (also known as the Japanese Academy Awards), the big winner was A Samurai in Time (2023) from writer-director Jun’ichi Yasuda, which picked up best film. The low-budget feature has not only been a major awards triumph in Japan but a financial one too, passing the 1 billion yen mark at the domestic box office.
Robert De Niro's daughter Airyn comes out as trans

2 weeks ago | skynews.com.au | Chloe Walker

Robert De Niro’s daughter Airyn has come out as transgender, publicly sharing her story for the first time. Born in 1995, Airyn is one of the legendary actor's seven children, and shares a twin, Julian. She is the daughter of De Niro, 81, and former model and actress Toukie Smith, 72, who was in a relationship with the Taxi Driver star from 1988 to 1996. Robert De Niro’s daughter Airyn has come out as transgender, publicly sharing her story for the first time.
Swimming Home Review

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

Isabel (Mackenzie Davis), Josef (Christopher Abbott) and their teenage daughter Nina (Freya Hannan-Mills) arrive in Greece, for a family holiday with their friend Laura (Nadina Labaki). When they get there, they find a naked woman, Kitti (Ariane Labed), in their pool. Though they are varying levels of disturbed by her unexpected presence, the family nonetheless allow her to stay with them, and she has an effect that will change all of their lives forever.
Cloud Review - Culturefly

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

Yoshii (Masaki Suda) works in a factory, but he makes most of his money from online reselling. He buys goods – therapy devices, figurines, designer handbags – cheaply, and then sells them on again at an enormous markup. He’s so good at his side hustle, soon he’s able to chuck in his day job, and buy himself and his girlfriend Akiko (Kotone Furakawa) a picturesque house in the woods, with more than enough space for all his stock.
Amy Poehler's Good Hang Just Wants to Have Fun

3 weeks ago | podcastreview.org | Chloe Walker

In a viral clip from the first episode of Good Hang, the hit new podcast from comedian Amy Poehler, her guest, Tina Fey, talks about how sick she is of famous people having “side hustles.” Poehler replies wryly, “Yeah, you mean like a podcast or something?”While in context Fey actually meant celebrities hawking supplements and tequilas to bring the extra millions in, that exchange encapsulates a certain unease at the center of this podcast.