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Steph Green

I’m Steph, a 21-year-old North Londoner currently living in Paris and set to graduate with an English and French degree in 2019. When I’m not devouring movies, podcasts or egg fried rice, you’ll find me trawling through the news, directing or producing plays, and buying make-up I can’t afford. I’m also enthusiastic about RuPaul’s Drag Race, disco music and Timothée Chalamet’s bourgeoning monobrow.

Film

Film News: Outrage as Jack Whitehall is cast as first “openly gay” Disney character

Steph Green Aug 15, 2018

Disney has come under fire for choosing to cast Jack Whitehall, a straight man, as Disney’s first “openly gay” character, who is set to be “hugely effete, very camp and very funny.” Members of the LGBTQ+ community, as well as many…

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Film News: Oscars Announce New ‘Achievement in Popular Film’ Category

Steph Green Aug 9, 2018

The Academy has announced that a new category is being designed around achievement in popular film. In a tweet that detailed new changes in the ceremony’s format, it was also announced that there will be an earlier airdate, February 9, and…

Film

Film News: See the first photo of Margot Robbie as Sharon Tate in the upcoming Tarantino film

Steph Green Aug 9, 2018

Margot Robbie has already secured her reputation as a film chameleon. From her sultry drawl in The Wolf of Wall Street, to her Harley Quinn role – mimicked in Halloween costumes everywhere in 2016 - and her Oscar-nominated portrayal of…

8 Times ‘America’s Next Top Model’ Aired Worrying American Attitudes

Steph Green Aug 16, 2017

Having aired for a whopping 24 seasons since 2003 with no signs of stopping, the America's Next Top Model franchise which is shown in 170 countries worldwide, is a force to be reckoned with. But despite being created by a strong,…

Culture

Live Review: Superfood // Brudenell Social Club, Leeds – 21.03.2017

Steph Green Mar 24, 2017

The Dirty Hit tour that Superfood are about a quarter of the way through is immensely important to them as a band – perhaps the most important tour that they’ve ever had to do. Calling it their "comeback" tour may seem clichéd, but that’s…

Culture

TV News: David Bowie Rumoured For 2016 John Lewis Christmas Advert

Steph Green Nov 4, 2016

In recent years, the John Lewis Christmas Advert has become one of the most eagerly anticipated presents of the holiday season; people huddled round their TV’s (or in most cases, their laptops), tissues at the ready, ready to weep as a…

Culture

Why ‘Hocus Pocus’ is the best Halloween film ever

Steph Green Oct 24, 2016

Listen up, RottenTomatoes. I’ve got something I need to say to you. Rating a cult classic like Hocus Pocus with a measly 30% score is downright insulting. I feel personally offended. It’s clearly a masterpiece (Plus it’s one of my mum’s…

Culture

Live Review: Black Honey // Belgrave Music Hall, Leeds – 13.10.2016

Steph Green Oct 14, 2016

As the sun set on a dismally cold day in West Yorkshire, music fans descended on the neon splendour of Leeds’ Belgrave Music Hall to catch an evening of 70’s-nostalgia inspired indie pop and scuzzy shoegaze. Black Honey, originating from…

Books

Revisiting Literary Characters: Patrick Bateman

Steph Green Sep 18, 2016

"…although I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel my flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there..." The term “unreliable narrator” was first coined by…

Live Previews

Preview: On Roundhay, Leeds – 17th September

Steph Green Aug 30, 2016

The sprawling Leeds location and tourist beauty spot, Roundhay Park, will play host to its first ever music, food and family entertainment festival on 17th September in partnership with John Lewis. It is set to draw thousands of people…

Culture

10 Reasons To Be Excited About The ‘Gilmore Girls’ Revival

Steph Green Aug 12, 2016

When Gilmore Girls left our screens in 2007 after seven heartwarming series, fans were left clamouring for more. The fast-paced comedy-drama television series, set in the fictional town of Stars Hollow, Connecticut, focused on single mother…

Books

My Life In Books: Steph Green

Steph Green Aug 3, 2016

When Ernest Hemingway said that “there is no friend as loyal as a book”, he succinctly encapsulated the way in which bibliophiles consume and adore literature. A good book can transform a dull afternoon, while away a long train journey,…

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