Francesca Steele

Any primary/prep school teachers follow me on here?

Hi Scott, I’m writing about The Salt Path debacle. Would love to quote you, is there a way I can contact you? Thanks!

When good movies turn baaaaaad.... 28 Years Later and why I've got the Rage

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

I went to see 28 Years Later and now I’ve got the RAGE open.substack.com/pub/culturet...

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.

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...

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...

Guys I did a substack 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!

Your favourite Agatha Christies, go!

It’s Meghan SUSSEX not Markle, Christ, Mindy.

So far I’m worried for poor Daniel that he will spend his entire stay chez Sussex laboriously admiring Meghan and never get a chance to try out those homemade bath salts..

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?

Mine too. Hero

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

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...

🎞️ From Cameron Diaz to Keira Knightley, a flurry of high-profile actresses are making their comebacks

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Ooh thanks! Can you add us pls @sianushka.bsky.social ?

Back on here after a hiatus, hoping madly for things that are the opposite of did they didn’t they Nazi salutes

Ooh I want to be on this one pls, where is it?

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?

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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

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I didn’t like, sorry!

The Split: Barcelona is trite and melodramatic At this time of year we want warm and cuddly dramas - but this feels like a telenovela

Truly, I am sorry inews.co.uk/culture/spli... @inews.co.uk

EM looks about five here

Do I know any party planners on here? 🎈🥳🍾

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