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Maxine Peake

weekend watchlist: coming to terms with grief personal and societal

Mon, May 30, 2022
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Plus badass women and damned dirty apes… (First published April 30th, 2022, on Substack and Patreon.)

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Fanny Lye deliver’d from her own deliverance with the dick-washed US poster for ‘The Delivered’

Thu, Dec 03, 2020
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It’s the dick-washing of The Sapphires all over again.

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Fanny Lye Deliver’d (aka The Delivered) movie review: birth of the modern woman (EIFF 2020)

Sun, Jun 28, 2020
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Maxine Peake is stupendous in this deliciously audacious period horror, ambitious in emotional scope and with monsters who feel unexpectedly modern: men who wield religion as a tool of oppression.

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movies by or about women opening US/Can Aug 14–16

Fri, Aug 16, 2019
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Holly Gent cowrites mystery dramedy Where’d You Go, Bernadette, starring Cate Blanchett; more… [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]

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Gwen movie review: a frisson of fright on the farm

Fri, Aug 16, 2019
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Atmospheric mood — this is a dour nightmare in the stark gloom of 19th-century Wales — and a striking performance by Eleanor Worthington-Cox aren’t quite enough to sustain this near-horror film.

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movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Jul 19

Sun, Jul 21, 2019
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Annabel Jankel directs Tell It to the Bees, starring Holliday Grainger and Anna Paquin; more… [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]

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Peterloo movie review: it’s a battle just to get through it

Thu, Nov 01, 2018
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The saddest ever Regency cosplay. Behold, a tableaux of thespians who shall teach us about the Corn Laws! Well-intentioned this would-be epic may be, but it’s dull and dry as dirt.

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movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Fri Apr 20

Fri, Apr 20, 2018
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Helen Mirren, Angourie Rice, Lily James, Juliette Binoche, Shirley Henderson, Maxine Peake, and Bel Powley headline in an unusually rich week for movies about women…

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Funny Cow movie review: standing up for herself

Thu, Apr 19, 2018
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This is scorched-earth cinema that challenges us to find moments of grace and triumph among misery, cruelty, and emotional frugality. Maxine Peake is absolutely incendiary.

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