Funny Woman stars Gemma Arterton (Black Narcissus) as Barbara Parker, a young ’60s girl, working in a sweet-making factory, but aiming for the big lights, starting with being a glamour girl, and up for Miss …
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Funny Woman stars Gemma Arterton (Black Narcissus) as Barbara Parker, a young ’60s girl, working in a sweet-making factory, but aiming for the big lights, starting with being a glamour girl, and up for Miss …
Continue readingRare Beasts marks Billie Piper‘s (Collateral, I Hate Suzie) directorial debut, beginning with her – as Mandy – on a date with Pete (Leo Bill) who, amongst other things, states he finds women intolerable, but …
Continue readingIn Fabric is a haunting ghost story set against the backdrop of a busy winter sales period in a department store and follows the life of a cursed dress as it passes from person to …
Continue readingThe Long Song is set during the slaves’ Christmas rebellion of 1831, and while I’m not usually one for period dramas, if they can somehow make it engaging, then they still do have a chance. …
Continue readingStrike… Cormoran Strike. Who on Earth has a surname of Strike? Maybe that’s why JK picked it. Yes, JK Rowling, since Robert Galbraith, the ‘author’ of the books on which this series is based, is …
Continue readingTaboo begins with what some suspect is a dead man returning from Africa. Dead man? Is it Martin Guerre? No, it’s James Keziah Delaney (Tom Hardy) who has a lot secrets, a lot of anger, …
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