Steven Ward
Location
Los Angeles, California
School
Azusa Pacific University
- Steven has extensive experience producing quality, high-volume writing in the form of news stories, critical reviews, and long-form articles/features.
- He has developed a skill and passion for writing about the arts — from music, films, television — which he does so with a lucid and critical hand.
- He also writes creatively, with published poems appearing in publications like The West Wind.
Experience
Steven has worked as a writer for print and online publications for seven years. He started working at Rio Hondo's El Paisano in 2013 as a staff writer before becoming Editor of the Arts and Entertainment section and eventually Editor-in-Chief. In 2015 he started writing at the Los Angeles music publication Grimy Goods, where he has spent the bulk of his career writing about the indie music scene in the form of feature stories and critical reviews. He joined Static Media in 2021 to continue growing his career as a writer, expanding his work beyond music to movies, television, and comics.
Education
Steven has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Azusa Pacific University.
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Stories By Steven Ward
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Director Sam Mendes used the film to pay tribute to a real man.
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Guillermo del Toro didn't want to make Hellboy without Ron Perlman, even if it meant waiting years to get the movie made.
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According to Brooke Smith — who played Buffalo Bill's victim Catherine Martin — the Silence of the Lambs pit was about as awful as you probably already guessed.
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'I've had mixed feelings over the years.'
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The one where Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke see a UFO.
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'It took a while actually to figure out who could play Charlie and Donald.'
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Director John McTiernan opens Die Hard with a Vengeance with the Bonwit Teller department store explosion, which was a major undertaking to get on film.
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What does John McClane from the "Die Hard" franchise have in common with Captain America? Read on to find out.
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The career of Michael Keaton is one rife with unforgettable roles. He's even revisited some of those parts.
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Today, it's hard to imagine anyone else embodying the whirlwind of razzled complexity that is Marla Singer other than Carter... but she was hesitant.
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Need an excuse to rewatch Goodfellas?
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Peter Mayhew had a whole entourage to make sure the actor got out of the forest in one piece.
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The role got him an Oscar nomination, but Reynolds hated the film until his dying days.
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If you want to plan a bank heist, just pretend you're a Hollywood screenwriter.
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I want you to hit me as hard as you can.
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You know what to expect with a Samuel L. Jackson character, and his lightsaber prop paid homage to that.
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The odyssey of short-term memory loss victim Leonard Shelby is a crash-course into Nolan's mind-stunning style, and an insight into the director's mind.
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Yes, we all know how Jaws ends, but there's more to this movie than just the death of a man-eating shark, thanks to the film's main characters.
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There was just one scene that convinced Butch Cassidy's sister that Paul Newman could do her brother justice.
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Blame uncomfortable contact lenses for a key Darth Maul character trait.
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These two should have absolutely nothing in common. And yet!
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No, we're not talking about Mouse dealing some death sticks. There's another cameo with ties to The Matrix that made it into a galaxy far, far away.
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Just like Indy, Harrison Ford was risking life-and-limb every time he put on that hat!
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The beloved scene almost didn't play out as it did in the final version of The Fellowship of the Ring.
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"You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger darling," Christopher Nolan to himself, probably, as he crashed a real plane into an airport.
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The freeze-frame ending of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid captures the bittersweet nature of the two outlaws' story.
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Even though John Turturro has one of the most memorable characters in The Big Lebowski, the actor was originally embarrassed of his small part in the film.