Contributions from Kristina Murkett | Little White Lies

Contributor Kristina Murkett

Image shows text saying "Photographed in Technicolor" with the Technicolor Director listed as "Natalie Kalmus" and the Associate listed as "Richard Mueller".

The Technicolor couple who changed the look of cinema

by Kristina Murkett

Dur­ing the 1930s and ​’40s, Her­bert and Natal­ie Kalmus rev­o­lu­tionised the art and busi­ness of Hol­ly­wood filmmaking.
A woman with a mid-20th century hairstyle wearing a white nurse's uniform, holding a microphone.

Nurse Ratched is the perfect movie villain – and the perfect stereotype

by Kristina Murkett

An ori­gin sto­ry is well over­due for one of pop­u­lar culture’s most icon­ic and prob­lem­at­ic characters.