
movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Fri Jan 12
Frances McDormand’s acclaimed performance in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri finally gets its UK release, and French and Mexican films focus on women’s lives.

Frances McDormand’s acclaimed performance in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri finally gets its UK release, and French and Mexican films focus on women’s lives.

Molly’s Game goes wide, and a few foreign films about women arrive (in limited release) on US shores.

An unlikely duo of films in which folks way beyond their teens fight hauntings injects a bit of the unexpected into a genre now tediously predictable.
I can’t help but recall Eddie Murphy’s standup bit in which he suggested — this is decades ago now — that when a scary voice in your haunted house tells you to “Gettttt outtttt!” the best thing to do is leave…