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Francesca Steele
@francescasteele.bsky.social
Freelance journalist with a focus on film. Former Senior Writer @thetimes.com Host of the writing podcast Write-Off. Agent: Laura Macdougall at UA, Insta @francescasteelewrites Recovered from #longcovid
Nope I DIDN’T hate 28 Years Later, just bits of it. The first half is a folk horror, fever dreamt masterpiece… read here, and SUBSCRIBE! Purlease and thank you culturetrash.substack.com/p/when-good-...
When good movies turn baaaaaad....
28 Years Later and why I've got the Rage
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I went to see 28 Years Later and now I’ve got the RAGE open.substack.com/pub/culturet...
When good movies turn baaaaaad....
28 Years Later and why I've got the Rage
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The humour might be inconsistent, but there’s real chemistry between Tom Basden and Carey Mulligan as former lovers and bandmates who meet again for a well paid one-off gig. @francescasteele.bsky.social reviews The Ballad of Wallis Island, out now. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
The Ballad of Wallis Island review: Gig economy
The humour might be inconsistent, but there’s real chemistry between Tom Basden and Carey Mulligan as former lovers and bandmates who meet again for a well paid one-off gig.
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I want to talk to you about horror (stay with me!). And blenders. It’s my first proper Substack post. Please do subscribe! open.substack.com/pub/culturet...
Have you been to the full moon party in Thailand? Send me you anecdotes good and bad pls! Can definitely be anonymous
I am looking to speak to people who have moved back into London (or another city) after moving out to the country for years. Esp if they’ve moved back for retirement. Please get in touch!
For a film critic I have a shamefully high tolerance for crap TV. Will Meghan get me in the end? Stay tuned!!
There is a man in my co-working space who taps his foot ALL the time and it is slowly driving me utterly, utterly round the bend
In a reading funk - I want to read something clever but also fun and light, domestic fiction probably, am thinking Such a Fun Age, Pineapple Street, that sorta thing. Any thoughts?
LOVED interviewing the supa Dog Man author Dav Pilkey for @thetimes.com about writing his way out of trouble as a kid and why parents should chill out about comic books. The very enjoyable Dog Man film is out this Friday fyi 🐕👮♂️ www.thetimes.com/culture/film...
Dav Pilkey on Dog Man: ‘Parents should let kids pick the books they want to read’
The children’s author has sold more than 140 million copies of his comic books — as a new film opens, he talks about how he got the world reading
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🎞️ From Cameron Diaz to Keira Knightley, a flurry of high-profile actresses are making their comebacks 🖋️ @francescasteele.bsky.social 🔗 inews.co.uk/culture/film...
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Back on here after a hiatus, hoping madly for things that are the opposite of did they didn’t they Nazi salutes
It’s fine don’t panic it’s just me having a mild midlife crisis in @thetimes.com Hair dye, tattoos and learning guitar in your 40s. Sad or VERY COOL? www.thetimes.com/article/f0f7...
Help! I turned into my father at 43
New research suggesting that is the age at which we become our parents is true, says Stuart Heritage
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★★ 🎥 We Live in Time, starring Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield, too often leans on cliche - and its underlying message is startlingly regressive 🖋️ @francescasteele.bsky.social 🔗 trib.al/ZnXhTnv
Writers: yes, you are still a "real" writer if you - have never published anything - have no readers - didn't write anything this month - didn't write anything this year - can't articulate words anymore - can only float and mournfully wail - were murdered ten years ago on this very spot
H delighted to meet the marvellous @cressidacowell.bsky.social this morning, and tickled by the idea of training his viking in her excellent-looking new short story collection
Still not sure how I feel about the assisted dying bill but I found this piece by @hugorifkind.bsky.social profoundly moving and articulate on an aspect of it that is usually described in vaguer terms www.thetimes.com/article/5050...
My mother’s MS has shaped my view on assisted dying
From a position of health it’s easy to say we’d take the quick route. But real life isn’t like that
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Engagement is just generally better on here, even though numbers are so much higher on there. I’m looking forward to the inevitable long read picking apart the weird and subtle “vibe” reasons some socials succeed
Dave Earley@earleyedition.bsky.social · 2y agoTraffic from Bluesky's @bsky.app to @theguardian.com is already 2x that of Threads In its first week on the platform & with 300k followers, Bluesky traffic from @theguardian.com posts is already higher than it was from TwX in any week in 2024, where the account had 10.8m followers, but🧵
Finally got round to seeing Gladiator 2. Some thoughts: It would be quite hard not to enjoy the Big Cinema Spectacle of it all. Sharks in the Colosseum! Yes! Wide screens of Paul Mescal’s thighs! Yes! But…
★★★ 🎥 While #Moana wowed adults and children alike, the new sequel lacks the original’s fearless spirit 🖋️ @francescasteele.bsky.social 🔗 inews.co.uk/culture/film...
Oh now listen About Time is REALLY worth a rewatch but also saying sexy pyjamas to your brother is not cool
I couldn’t even enjoy hate watching the new Cruel Intentions. It is very very bad. 1 ⭐️ from me in @inews.co.uk inews.co.uk/culture/tele...
The Cruel Intentions reboot is an insult to the 90s cult classic
This teen-centric rehash tries to be Gossip Girl meets Pretty Little Liars, but its not nearly fun enough
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No one unrelated to M&S employees can ever get hold of an actual irl Christmas Colin the Caterpillar, and that is an incontrovertible fact
So pleasing and true from @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social -this please *is* like a twinkly winter pub (for now) www.thetimes.com/article/da26...
Watch out Elon Musk, now Clifton Suspension Bridge has left X, it’s over
Forget doom-scrolling, Bluesky is taking over from X, formerly Twitter, with daft memes, Wallace and Gromit — and Carol Vorderman, of course
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