The acting is fine and the imagery brooding, but this tepid sci-fi – all creepy neighbours, hazmat squads and crustacean-faced infected – is in thrall to better films
To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, gettin…
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‘If you get it wrong, it’s sacrilegious!’ TV’s problem with Irish accents ⊖⊖
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
From James Norton’s ‘terror’ at playing a Dubliner in House of Guinness to Helen Mirren doing an impersonation so atrocious it went viral – why do actors struggle to play people from Ireland?
Putting …
Steve Coogan, Paloma Faith and Maxine Peake head list of luvvies demanding Keir Starmer say Israel have committed genocide in Gaza ○
In a video released by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) ahead of the Labour Party conference, Steve Coogan, 59, said: 'Keir Starmer says it's not genocide, it is genocide.'
10 months ago
Actress Maxine Peake launches blistering attack on JK Rowling over her trans views as she says author has 'no understanding' and compares her to Mary Whitehouse ○
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a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail
Actress Maxine Peake has launched a blistering attack on JK Rowling during an appearance on BBC Radio 4.
‘The one thing it doesn’t have is actual sex’: the new Mary Whitehouse play that would have infuriated Mary Whitehouse ○
She was the morality crusader who became a figure of ridicule. Now Whitehouse is the subject of a new production starring Maxine Peake. We meet the gay feminist playwright who wrote it
The morality ca…
13 months ago
Words of War review – Maxine Peake leads line as murdered Putin-critic journalist Anna Politkovskaya ○
Peake stars opposite Jason Isaacs, as Politkovskaya’s husband, in this sentimental look at the life of a woman who, 19 years after her death, remains a folk hero
This British-American co-production of…
14 months ago
Telling the incredible tale of Anna Politkovskaya has taught me one thing: I could never be that brave | Maxine Peake ○
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
She faced endless opposition and threats to her life. This has become a reality for far too many journalists
- Maxine Peake is an actor who appears in the new film Words of War
What drives someone to bec…
16 months ago
Sarah Beeny moves viewers to tears as she opens up about her battle with cancer on Great British Bake Off Stand Up To Cancer special ○
The Property Ladder legend, 53, appeared on the show - which aims to raise funds for cancer patients and treatments - alongside Roman Kemp, Maxine Peake and Amelia Dimoldenberg .
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