Steph GreenPost-irony and the afflictive American self in David Foster Wallace’s Literary Non-Fiction10,000 words about David Foster Wallace’s pursuit of sincerity.39 min read·Mar 12, 2021----
Steph GreeninThe Indiependent‘Crash’ At 25: David Cronenberg’s Most Divisive OddityDavid Cronenberg’s glacial and oddly moving fetish thriller Crash turns 25 this year. But has its depiction of futurism and kink become…6 min read·Feb 28, 2021----
Steph GreeninThe IndiependentThe Ingenious Artifice of Brian De Palma’s ‘Body Double’What do fictional serial killer Patrick Bateman and I have in common, aside from an encyclopaedic knowledge of the musical ‘Les…8 min read·Nov 29, 2020----
Steph GreeninThe IndiependentRevisiting ‘Forever Mine,’ Paul Schrader’s Turn-of-the-Millennium DudHow do you solve a problem like Paul Schrader?6 min read·Nov 1, 2020----
Steph GreeninThe Indiependent‘Ammonite’ is a Painstakingly Excavated TreasureSome may find the sweeping chilliness of Francis Lee’s sophomore feature too bleak, but consider this critic’s cockles warmed. Saoirse…5 min read·Oct 18, 2020----
Steph GreeninThe Indiependent‘David Byrne’s American Utopia’- A Life-Affirming Ode to Human ConnectionThirty-six years after Stop Making Sense set the bar stratospherically high for the concert film, an unlikely duo has created an urgently…4 min read·Oct 16, 2020----
Steph GreeninThe Indiependent‘The Intruder’ — an intriguing aural nightmareErica Riva plays a traumatised woman drowning in the sound of her own nightmares in this De Palma-esque thriller.3 min read·Oct 12, 2020----
Steph GreeninThe Indiependent‘Supernova’ — Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci At A Celestial Career BestSupernova is an elegant, elegiac story of two soulmates facing the cruelty of dementia, with director Harry Macqueen crafting a mature…4 min read·Oct 9, 2020----
Steph GreeninThe Indiependent‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things’ is a Blizzard of Existential Strife: Review“Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.”4 min read·Sep 4, 2020----
Steph GreeninThe IndiependentTim Roth, ‘Captives’ and the British erotic thrillerThe three most-liked reviews of Captives on the film social network Letterboxd are pretty similar in their brazen horniness for Tim Roth.5 min read·Aug 23, 2020----