Esme Chen, Author at Redbrick

Esme Chen

An English Literature & Film student! I am interested in folklore across all media, the Gothic, and of course, any and all storytelling practices!

Live Review: Florence & The Machine – A Double Perspective

Music Critics Esme Chen and Izzy Lee review Florence & The Machine's Birmingham show, praising Florence Welch's artistic evolution
Vampires, Cannibals, and Body Politics: Hunger as Horror

Film & TV Writer Esme Chen compares Nosferatu and Dracula, analysing how vampiric media reflects contemporary cultural obsessions with thinness
Best Films of 2025

Redbrick's Film & TV Writers discuss their favourite films of 2025
Reviving Pagan Traditions: Winter Solstice at Stonehenge

Culture Writer Esme Chen reflects on her experience celebrating the Winter Solstice at Stonehenge, expounding on its connection to Pagan spirituality
Feminine power, baroque drama, and witchcraft: The spellbinding divinity of The Last Dinner Party

Music Critic Esme Chen explores the magic behind The Last Dinner Party and their latest album, From the Pyre
Del Toro’s Genesis: A Monster Made in His Filmic Image

Film & TV writer Esme Chen praises Guillermo Del Toro’s rendition of Frankenstein to be true to the original novel by Mary Shelley yet unique in its own way without disrupting the story’s core concepts
Album Review: Florence + the Machine – Everybody Scream

Music Critic Esme Chen discusses Florence + The Machine's latest album 'Everybody Scream', discussing her restorative use of themes such as witchcraft, sex, and folklore
Clark Kent: An Emblem of Love, Hope, and Resistance

Film & TV Writer Esme Chen highlights Superman's lasting legacy, finding in the character the kind of hope the world needs most today
Revisiting The Politics of Life is Strange 2 Seven Years Later

Gaming Writer Esme Chen reflects on how the politics of a 2018 game still resonate today