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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.

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Film News: Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie are warring relatives in the newest ‘Mary Queen of Scots’…

Steph Green Oct 8, 2018

Full of fiery locks, icy glares and plenty of "yaaas, Queen" moments, the newest Mary Queen of Scots trailer sees rivalries deepen between the two distant cousins vying for power. Saoirse Ronan plays the eponymous royal, who reigned in…

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Film News: JK Rowling Under Fire For Casting Asian Actress As Nagini

Steph Green Sep 28, 2018

JK Rowling has come under fire for casting the South Korean actress Claudia Kim as Nagini in the next Fantastic Beasts film, revealed in the final trailer. Critics point out that the only Asian actor in the cast plays a reptile and…

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Film News: ‘Green Book’ wins the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto…

Steph Green Sep 16, 2018

This year, the People's Choice Award went to Green Book directed by Peter Farrelly. Award-winning actors Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen star in the film, which tells the story of a working-class Italian-American bouncer who takes a job…

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Film Review: BlacKkKlansman

Steph Green Sep 14, 2018

Despite a mixed bag of recent releases, Spike Lee’s new film, a blistering race dramedy entitled BlacKkKlansman, is a stylish yet horrendous gut-punch, that draws in the audience with dark humour before ending with a grave sense of dread.…

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Film News: ‘Roma’ wins the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival 2018

Steph Green Sep 9, 2018

Roma, a tear-jerking Spanish-language drama centered around a Mexican family in the 1970's and directed by Alfonso Cuarón, has been awarded the Golden Lion at the 75th Venice Film Festival. The Mexican director, whose past films include …

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Film News: Kevin Spacey’s New Film Took £96 On Its First Day

Steph Green Aug 22, 2018

Kevin Spacey’s latest (or, indeed, should that be last?) film took just £96 on its first day at the box office, after opening in just 10 cinemas across the US. According to The Hollywood Reporter, this suggests that fewer than two people…

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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…

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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…

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