By Anne Brodie Canadian-Pakistani filmmaker Zarrar Kahn’s eerie winner of multiple international awards In Flames is an unusual and intriguing family drama with strong thriller elements, biting social and cultural commentary and an astounding ending. Mariam (Ramesha Nawal) and her mother Farhia …
High Drama, Some True, Some Not, Some Nutty, Some Tragic, in an Anglo-Flavoured Week of Watching.
By Anne Brodie Outrageously, hilariously potty-mouther Wicked Little Letters starring Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley looks at what can happen in the small English village of Littlehampton in the 20s when a peculiar prank befouls the air. Prim Edith Swan (Colman), a deeply religious, …
Heroes, Villains, Heroines, Middle Aged Crazy and Cake!
By Anne Brodie Steven Zaillian's black and white iteration of Patricia Highsmith's evergreen psychological thriller simply called Ripley starts slow but by Ep 3, you're done for, hooked, breathlessly anxious to see what follows. You can't look away anymore. Andrew Scott's black, blank eyes are …
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Tamsin Grieg is an Evil Genius and Bad Mother In The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin. She’s a Riot!
Tamson Grieg is Lady Helen Gwinear, an embittered shrew of a mother whose daughter Nell has run off to join a band of 17th-century highwaymen in The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin. It's no wonder. Lady Helen runs some pretty rough business as head of her own criminal organization, but …
Jodie Whittaker Goes Deep to Play an Unfairly Imprisoned Woman In a Nerve-Shredding Downward Spiral.
Jodie Whittaker who you know as the only female Dr. Who, is Orla in BritBox' gripping miniseries Time S2. Orla's an impoverished single mother of three sent to prison for "stealing electricity" in desperation one cold winter. Her children are sent to live with her alcoholic mother, then taken into …