Home

Meadow Wattret

I'm a 20 year old final year English student at the University of Bristol. 

I'm a student journalist who loves working on film & TV, music, entertainment, and basically anything in popular culture. When I'm not being a Film & TV editor of Epigram, the University's student newspaper, I'm probably writing blog posts (just to leave them in the drafts), playing guitar, or reading about celebrities.

Get in touch for any request, paid or unpaid - even for a coffee - through Instagram or email.

Feel free to have a nosy around some of my work below.

Epigram •

A Real Pain: Families Are A Nightmare and Jesse Eisenberg Understands Why

By Meadow Wattret, Film and TV Co-Deputy EditorIt’s 2am in the middle of term two and I can’t sleep because of my three younger brothers. Not because they’re screaming at video games, or because I’m still seething after a text-fight where I declared they were ‘the worst’. I’m wondering where they are, what they’re doing, and how everything’s going. Me and mine don’t talk all that often (mostly because they ignore my texts), and even when we do, the quality time is spent slinging verbal assaults...
The New Feminist •

“People really want to hate on women”: What the backlash against Blake Lively for her Justin Baldoni complaint warns of modern misogyny - The New Feminist

Content warning: This article contains mentions of domestic violence.


In 2024, Blake Lively became the face of an uncomfortable truth: Hollywood can’t talk about domestic violence without dressing it up as something pink, sparkly and romantic. She egged audiences on to see her film It Ends With Us (2024) on girls-night, decked out in flowers – after asking them to try out her new hair-care line. I directed my anger towards such insulting marketing at Lively. Then she filed a complaint against...
Epigram •

A rundown of Bristol Film Festival's January screenings

By Meadow Wattret, Film & TV Co-Deputy EditorLike me, you might have survived the pre-Christmas exam season and now hope to avoid the January Senate sessions, unpacking, and dissertation-starting. What better way to ease the New Year blues than watching a film in a funky, beautiful space? Bristol Film Festival is putting on a variety of screenings throughout the new year to welcome you and your inner film buff back to the city. Here's your guide to the events.The best thing about the classics is...
Epigram •

"Do You Like Scary Movies?": What Is So Horrifying about Horror Films

I am not an adrenaline junkie. I still get nervous sleeping in the dark, I tremor walking over the Clifton Suspension Bridge, and I absolutely loathe rollercoasters. The first time I watched something terrifying was a different story. It was just after Halloween. My friend from primary school and I sat cross-legged under a DIY den made from a duvet sheet. We put on Henry Selick’s spooky animation Coraline (2009), and I was horrified. I’ve come to realise that while I avoid the outside of my comf...
Bristol24/7 •

The secrets of one of Bristol's most successful young entrepreneurs

Chris Parfitt is one of Bristol’s most successful young entrepreneurs, not only co-founding Jacob’s, a growing chain of barbershops, but also running a popular vintage fashion shop of the same name.The 29-year-old also recently appeared in a promotional video for Bristol Bears, giving captain Fitz Harding a buzz cut to help launch the club’s new European shirt for the upcoming season.
Chris’ business journey began 12 years ago when he left school in his home town of Cheddar and began his barber...
Bristol24/7 •

How Banksy saved art history

A new book considers how Bristol-born artist Banksy revitalises classical art through his reworkings of well-known works.Author, BBC culture columnist, art historian and critic Kelly Grovier traverses through Banksy’s back catalogue and inspects the artist’s vast references and the revival of classical art history in How Banksy Saved Art History.
The book’s description promises that “in this fully illustrated and entertaining exploration, bestselling author Kelly Grovier traces art history throu...
Bristol24/7 •

Community fearful for area's future if road is closed to cars

Residents and business owners in one corner of south Bristol have expressed their anger about proposals to change traffic flow in the area.Council proposals include the junction of Bellevue Road with Wells Road in Totterdown being closed off to motor traffic in order to improve safety for cyclists and motorbikes, and prevent rat-running.
But the closure – first suggested under Bristol’s previous Labour administration – will leave many people living in the Bellevue Road cul-de-sac forced to drive...
Epigram •

MaXXXine: A Rowdy, Ambitious Kaleidoscope of Glittery Chaos

By Meadow Wattret, Third Year, Film and TV Deputy-EditorDidn’t we all grow up wanting to be ‘a star’? Well, if so, Ti West’s horror-thriller trilogy may put you off the concept. In the trilogy’s third instalment, MaXXXine, the Hollywood-tinted lenses come off as the titular character, Maxine Minx, chases a dream of stardom amidst a serial killing rampage in 1980s Hollywood, all while grappling with her traumatic past seen in the first film, X. This film was followed by, Pearl, which was even mor...

Contact Me

My inbox is always open, you can contact me with the contact form here