Francesca Steele @francescasteele.bsky.social · 27/11/2025Any primary/prep school teachers follow me on here? 110
Francesca Steele @francescasteele.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Nope 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-...culturetrash.substack.comWhen good movies turn baaaaaad....28 Years Later and why I've got the Rage 030
Francesca Steele @francescasteele.bsky.social · 20/06/2025I went to see 28 Years Later and now I’ve got the RAGE open.substack.com/pub/culturet...open.substack.comWhen good movies turn baaaaaad....28 Years Later and why I've got the Rage 021
Reposted by Francesca SteeleSight and Sound magazine @sightsoundmag.bsky.social · 01/06/2025The 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...bfi.org.ukThe Ballad of Wallis Island review: Gig economyThe 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. 082
Francesca Steele @francescasteele.bsky.social · 15/05/2025I 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... 030
Francesca Steele @francescasteele.bsky.social · 14/05/2025Guys I did a substack open.substack.com/pub/culturet... 022
Francesca Steele @francescasteele.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Have you been to the full moon party in Thailand? Send me you anecdotes good and bad pls! Can definitely be anonymous 010
Francesca Steele @francescasteele.bsky.social · 13/03/2025I 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! 000
Francesca Steele @francescasteele.bsky.social · 04/03/2025For a film critic I have a shamefully high tolerance for crap TV. Will Meghan get me in the end? Stay tuned!! 110
Francesca Steele @francescasteele.bsky.social · 13/02/2025There 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 010
Francesca Steele @francescasteele.bsky.social · 12/02/2025In 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? 200
Francesca Steele @francescasteele.bsky.social · 05/02/2025LOVED 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...thetimes.comDav 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 110
Reposted by Francesca SteeleThe i Paper @theipaper.com · 04/02/2025🎞️ From Cameron Diaz to Keira Knightley, a flurry of high-profile actresses are making their comebacks 🖋️ @francescasteele.bsky.social 🔗 inews.co.uk/culture/film... 141
Francesca Steele @francescasteele.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Just meeeeeet meeee at the… apt apt apt apt apt apt apt apt 010
Francesca Steele @francescasteele.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Back on here after a hiatus, hoping madly for things that are the opposite of did they didn’t they Nazi salutes 020
Francesca Steele @francescasteele.bsky.social · 21/01/2025It’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...thetimes.comHelp! I turned into my father at 43New research suggesting that is the age at which we become our parents is true, says Stuart Heritage 010
Reposted by Francesca SteeleThe i Paper @theipaper.com · 01/01/2025★★ 🎥 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 011
Francesca Steele @francescasteele.bsky.social · 30/12/2024Truly, I am sorry inews.co.uk/culture/spli... @inews.co.ukinews.co.ukThe Split: Barcelona is trite and melodramaticAt this time of year we want warm and cuddly dramas - but this feels like a telenovela 120
Francesca Steele @francescasteele.bsky.social · 18/12/2024Do I know any party planners on here? 🎈🥳🍾 010
Reposted by Francesca SteeleSandra Newman @sannewman.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Writers: 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 401195073203
Francesca Steele @francescasteele.bsky.social · 30/11/2024H 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 000
Francesca Steele @francescasteele.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Still 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...thetimes.comMy mother’s MS has shaped my view on assisted dyingFrom a position of health it’s easy to say we’d take the quick route. But real life isn’t like that 030
Francesca Steele @francescasteele.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Engagement 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 110
Francesca Steele @francescasteele.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Finally 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… 120
Reposted by Francesca SteeleThe i Paper @theipaper.com · 26/11/2024★★★ 🎥 While #Moana wowed adults and children alike, the new sequel lacks the original’s fearless spirit 🖋️ @francescasteele.bsky.social 🔗 inews.co.uk/culture/film... 011
Francesca Steele @francescasteele.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Oh now listen About Time is REALLY worth a rewatch but also saying sexy pyjamas to your brother is not cool 120
Francesca Steele @francescasteele.bsky.social · 21/11/2024I 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...inews.co.ukThe Cruel Intentions reboot is an insult to the 90s cult classicThis teen-centric rehash tries to be Gossip Girl meets Pretty Little Liars, but its not nearly fun enough 031
Francesca Steele @francescasteele.bsky.social · 21/11/2024No one unrelated to M&S employees can ever get hold of an actual irl Christmas Colin the Caterpillar, and that is an incontrovertible fact 030
Francesca Steele @francescasteele.bsky.social · 20/11/2024So pleasing and true from @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social -this please *is* like a twinkly winter pub (for now) www.thetimes.com/article/da26...thetimes.comWatch out Elon Musk, now Clifton Suspension Bridge has left X, it’s overForget doom-scrolling, Bluesky is taking over from X, formerly Twitter, with daft memes, Wallace and Gromit — and Carol Vorderman, of course 060
Francesca Steele @francescasteele.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Do we have a verb for messaging on BlueSky? Or will we just forever call it Tweeting? @bsky.app 350
Francesca Steele @francescasteele.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Morning BlueSky! Here is my co-working desk, which I’ve only recently acquired because it turns out working at Costa and off your sofa for three years isn’t great for productivity. I like mess. And coffee and biscuits and books. 040
Reposted by Francesca SteeleJay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 19/11/2024Bluesky now has over 20M people!! 🎉 We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky: 306913026516060
Reposted by Francesca SteeleThe i Paper @theipaper.com · 19/11/2024★★★★★ 🎥 The long-awaited film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical Wicked, about the backstory of The Wizard of Oz’s Wicked Witch of the West, is a candy-coloured, fantastical treat 🖋️ @francescasteele.bsky.social 🔗 inews.co.uk/culture/film... 041
Francesca Steele @francescasteele.bsky.social · 19/11/2024I love love loved the #Wicked movie, which is gorgeous to look at and listen to but also very, very funny inews.co.uk/culture/film... @theipaper.bsky.socialinews.co.ukAriana Grande had to audition five times for Wicked - now she's proven her worthThis candy-coloured treat of a Broadway adaptation is carried by the phenomenal talent of Grande and her co-star Cynthia Erivo 031
Francesca Steele @francescasteele.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Truly few things I like less than helping my son with his maths homework 020
Francesca Steele @francescasteele.bsky.social · 18/11/2024It’s fine it’s just me looking 105 standing next to Ariana Grande #wicked 140
Francesca Steele @francescasteele.bsky.social · 18/11/2024What are your best journalist starter packs, people? Also I want to be in one, can you put me in one please? (Maybe I’m already in one, how would I know?) 040
Francesca Steele @francescasteele.bsky.social · 18/11/2024What is bluesky going to be like when we all stop talking about how great bluesky is? 020
Francesca Steele @francescasteele.bsky.social · 17/11/2024What immediately feels good about this place, very noticeably, is that it feels like the algorithm is working for me not against me 050
Reposted by Francesca SteeleHelen Pidd @helenpidd.bsky.social · 16/11/2024A very personal story today from me and Lexy Topping about friendship across the parenting divide. What happens when kids arrive for one of you and not the other www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...theguardian.comThey were best mates. Then one had a baby, while the other struggled. Two brutally honest takes on what happens when motherhood affects friendshipThey both had something the other wanted. Could their relationship survive? 1610917
Francesca Steele @francescasteele.bsky.social · 17/11/2024It’s weird to be back somewhere people are… enthusiastically, politely chatting?media.tenor.coma cartoon of a tiger with the words " we don 't have time for "ALT: a cartoon of a tiger with the words " we don 't have time for " 020
Francesca Steele @francescasteele.bsky.social · 17/11/2024I so enjoyed speaking to Louise Joy Brown, the world’s first IVF baby, as the film Joy (about her extraordinary conception) comes out this week. What an unusual and interesting life www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11... #IVF #joy #netflixtelegraph.co.ukI was the first IVF baby – if anything had gone wrong, the world would look different nowIn 1978, the pioneering work of a British medical team brought Louise Joy Brown into the world... and that story is now a Netflix film 061
Reposted by Francesca SteeleRuth Ware @ruthwarewriter.bsky.social · 15/11/2024No disrespect to John Krasinski, but I think we all know the actual sexiest man alive in 2024 1310513
Francesca Steele @francescasteele.bsky.social · 14/11/2024What’s up bluesky is it better than threads over here? 010