
weekend watchlist: coming to terms with grief personal and societal
Plus badass women and damned dirty apes… (First published April 30th, 2022, on Substack and Patreon.)

Plus badass women and damned dirty apes… (First published April 30th, 2022, on Substack and Patreon.)
It’s the dick-washing of The Sapphires all over again.

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.
Statue of Oliver Cromwell near the Houses of Parliament, with Big Ben in the background.