Tag Archives: Maxine Peake

Fanny Lye Deliver’d. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Maxine Peake, Charles Dance, Freddie Fox, Tanya Reynolds, Zak Adams, Peter McDonald, Perry Fitzpatrick, Kenneth Collard.

The freedom to rejoice in a life that you wish to live is one that is forever ongoing, and one that was hard fought against by the patriarchal dominated church which sought to keep women under the subjugation of men for thousands of years, and which has ridiculously managed to keep some semblance of authoritarian control over a woman’s body and her mind in much of the world even in a modern age of enlightenment and with feminism very much offering sovereignty, a sanctity of independence delivered.

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(568 words, estimated 2:16 mins reading time)

Peterloo. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Maxine Peake, Rory Kinnear, Pearce Quigley, Sam Troughton, Alistair Mackenzie, David Moorst, John Paul Hurley, Philip Jackson, Ian Mercer, Lizzie McInnerny, Victor McGuire, Tim McInnerny, Jeff Rawle, David Bamber, Dorothy Duff, Julie Hesmondhaigh, Lee Boardman, Steve Huison, Rachel Finnigan, Robert Wilfort, Karl Johnson, Neil Bell, Fine Time Fontayne, Paul Brown.

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(726 words, estimated 2:54 mins reading time)

The Falling, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 5/10

Cast: Maisie Williams, Maxine Peake, Florence Pugh, Anna Burett, Greta Scacchi, Rose Caton, Lauren McCrostie, Katie Ann Knight, Evie Hooten, Monica Dolan, Mathew Baynton, Morfydd Clark, Joe Cole.

The Falling is full of style, intrigue; a cast dominated by wonderful actresses and full of potential and yet, despite all this, leaves the cinema goer feeling flatter than an uncooked pancake sitting in a café, untouched, alone and as indigestible as a school meal in the 1970s.

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(479 words, estimated 1:55 mins reading time)

The Theory of Everything, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast:  Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Harry Lloyd, David Thewlis, Maxine Peake, Simon McBurney, Emily Watson, Guy Oliver-Watts, Lucy Chappell, Charlotte Hope, Abigail Cruttenden, Christian McKay, Adam Godley, Alice Orr-Ewing, Thomas Morrison, Michael Marcus, Nicola Sloane, Nicholas Gerard-Martin, Brett Brown, Anthony Skimshire, Eileen Davies, Simon Chandler, Georg Nikoloff, Tom Prior, Sophie Perry, Finlay Wright-Stephens, Gruffudd Glyn, Paul Longley, Enzo Cilenti.

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(692 words, estimated 2:46 mins reading time)

The Hollow Crown, Henry IV Part One. B.B.C. Television Review.

Originally published by L.S. Media. July 11th 2012

L.S. Media Rating ****

Cast: Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons, Julie Walters, Maxine Peake, Tom Georgeson, Simon Russell Beale, Alun Armstrong, Joe Armstrong, Harry Lloyd, Michelle Dockery, Robert Pugh.

If the first in the B.B.C.’s Hollow Crown adaptations of William Shakespeare’s history plays Richard II focused on the nature of chivalry in the time of noble kings, then the second, Henry IV, Part One focused on the story of what was too come. With an elderly Henry on the throne of England and with the playboy Prince of Wales taking up with thieves, robbers and undesirables in the taverns of Cheapside, it was more of an eye on how the boy, one of the best loved characters in Shakespeare and royal history, became the man he was to become.

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(493 words, estimated 1:58 mins reading time)