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Fanny Lye Deliver’d – movie review

Alex First3 years ago3 years ago03 mins

The slow-moving period piece Fanny Lye Deliver’d is a film mired in pain. The year is 1657. The place: Shropshire, in the West Midlands region of England. Fanny Lye (Maxine Peake) is a hard-working farmer’s wife, living a life of Puritan stricture. Her husband, John (Charles Dance), is a cruel former army captain returned from…

Funny Cow – movie review

David Edwards6 years ago6 years ago07 mins

Many comics seem to be insecure, unhappy, lonely. They turn to comedy as a way of dealing with their emotional pain, and they often use humour as a defence mechanism. And this the plight of the heroine in Funny Cow. This unapologetically bleak tale follows a damaged woman trying to make it in the male-dominated…

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Fanny Lye Deliver’d – movie review

Funny Cow – movie review