Steph Green

  • At a lower-key Venice Film Festival than normal thanks to the COVID crisis, Chloé Zhao Nomadland has picked up the Golden Lion award.

    Having received rave reviews since its premiere in Venice and subsequently […]

  • Years after leaving school, I still find myself being deferential to the scholastic calendar.

    I wake up on 1 September and expect there to be a path of autumnal leaves ceremoniously leading out of my bedroom, […]

  • The full line-up has been revealed for this year’s BFI London Film Festival, which will be fully virtual for the first time.

    The BFI London Film Festival will open with Steve McQueen’s “rousing tale of Black […]

  •  “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.” 

    This is a proverb quoted early on in Charlie Kaufman’s arresting and poignant new film, I’m Thinking of Ending Things, which spends […]

  • With eight films, six Academy Award nominations, a three-letter moniker and legions of adoring fans to his name, Paul Thomas Anderson is one of the most renowned living filmmakers in the world.

    Aged just 50, […]

  • The three most-liked reviews of Captives on the film social network Letterboxd are pretty similar in their brazen horniness for Tim Roth.

    “this was absolute garbage but i want tim roth to spit in my mouth” rea […]

  • Dead Sexy: A Fortnightly Column on Erotic Thrillers

    Just like its ornithological counterpart The Goldfinch, Francis Lawrence’s Red Sparrow was a film pronounced dead on arrival.

    I didn’t have Letterboxd whe […]

  • The British film industry suffered a blow today with the news Sir Alan Parker’s passing at the age of 76 after a lengthy illness.

    Parker was born in Islington, North London to Elsie, a dressmaker, and William, […]

  • Some people need absolute silence to be at peace or to work. Others opt for lo-fi beats, classical piano or white noise to help tune their wandering brains. Lately, however, I’ve discovered a section of YouTube t […]

  • Caitlin Moran’s outdated feminism of ‘big knickers and girl power’ falls flat in this rags-to-riches-and-back-again adaptation

    Like many, I was over the moon at the news that one of my favourite teenage nov […]

  • Dead Sexy: A Fortnightly Column on Erotic Thrillers

    Contrary to popular belief, I prefer erotic thriller maestro Adrian Lyne’s Lolita adaptation to the one made 35 years prior by Stanley Kubrick. But do either […]

  • Dead Sexy: A Fortnightly Column on Erotic Thrillers

    The pleasure and pain of a striptease is structured around the anticipation of a reveal. 

    Item by item, the dancer sheds their clothing until their body […]

  • Steph Green revisits this caper-filled comedy, which thrives in its own takedown of heteronormativity 

    Dianne Wiest gazes at her bowl, unaware that it depicts men having sex with each other—albeit in the st […]

  • Dead Sexy: A Fortnightly Column on Erotic Thrillers

    The depiction of twins in cinema is often horrifying—and no, I’m not talking about the 1988 movie starring Danny Devito and Arnold Sch […]

  • Whether or not you know much about Shirley Jackson prior to watching Josephine Decker’s fiercely disorientating Shirley (I knew near-on nothing), the effects of it, with a little research on her life after v […]

  • Chilean director Pablo Larraín will direct a film about one “critical weekend” in the life of Princess Diana, with Kristen Stewart starring as Britain’s revered and reviled sweetheart. 

    Titled ‘Spence […]

  • Dead Sexy: A Fortnightly Column on Erotic Thrillers

    When two passenger airlines crashed into the Twin Towers on 11 September 2001, life changed irreversibly for Americans—and we don’t need reminding of the o […]

  • Soft blue shirts, ripe peaches, rustling sheet music, urgent kisses.

    When Call Me By Your Name was released in 2017, people fell in love with not just the story, but with the very fabric of the filmmaking. […]

  • Christina Newland’s essay collection She Found it at the Movies shines a light on a diverse set of voices to reclaim female desire, according to Film News Editor, Steph Green

    Women and their desirous response […]

  • Film News Editor Steph Green provides a beginner’s guide to the banquet of World Cinema

    “I want to start  watching more foreign-language films,” my friend recently said to me, “but I just don’t know where to […]

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