#joanna scanlan

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Come on over to mine, then. Now. We'll be boiling eggs.

Wicked Little Letters (2023)

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WICKED LITTLE LETTERS (2023) dir. Thea Sharrock

[ulrichgebert]

Ein Liebesfilm. Da manche Mädchen einfach nicht von dieser Welt sind, informierte ich mich vorsichtshalber nochmal, wie diese auf Parties korrekt anzusprechen sind. Für Außerirdischen gelten zwar im Prinzip anderere Regeln, welche hier aber keine Verwendung finden, weil die kleinen Punks in Croydon annehmen, so sonderbar wie sie sich benehmen, sind es wohl Amerikaner. Muss als einer der besseren Filme mit Nicole Kidman gewertet werden.

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Slow Horses, Season Four - Spook Street (2024)

Director - Adam Randall

[glitterypin]

good ol' Glenn, maintaining decorum in any and all situations

[batterknowsbetter]

Joanna Scanlan as Moira Tregorian in Slow Horses S04

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Wicked Little Letters

directed by Thea Sharrock, 2023

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Wicked Little Letters (2023) Thea Sharrock

May 6th 2024

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Films Watched in 2024: 48. Wicked Little Letters (2023) - Dir. Thea Sharrock

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Time 19-Feb-2024 19:30 Day Monday Where Cineworld - Rushden Lakes Screen 7 Seat J13 Price £9.70

[watchingalotofmovies]

Slow Horses S04

Slow Horses S04    [trailer]

Follows a team of British intelligence agents who serve as a dumping ground department of MI5 due to their career-ending mistakes.

I would've liked a bit more interaction between Gary Oldman and Kristin Scott Thomas. And the early scenes with the new First Desk guy were hard to take seriously.

But overall another satisfying, self contained mini season. Not unnecessarily stretched to eight or ten episodes and forced cliff-hangers at the end. I'm already looking forward to the next season.

[filmforager]

Joy: Review

Not quite a bundle of joy

IVF was an incredible discovery that changed the lives of millions of women, as well as the world of science. It was a moment that required strong wills, risky decisions and plenty of unconventional thinking. Joy, the film about the key figures behind this discovery, has few of these qualities. Instead, it’s just a slight and charming film about a big moment in scientific history.

From the start, Joy seeks to illuminate the work of nurse Jean Purdy (Thomasin Mckenzie), whose contributions, until recently, were consigned to the dustbin of history. In 1970s Cambridge, Jean meets gifted scientist Robert Edwards (James Norton) and no-nonsense surgeon Patrick Steptoe (an ever-brilliant Bill Nighy), who put their minds together to create a solution for infertility amongst women. But their attempts soon catch the attention of the sceptical media, who christen ‘test tube babies’ an abomination against nature.  

After a slow start where the film struggles to find its rhythm, Joy finds its feet as a tale about renegades going against the system to fight for their beliefs. As the trio experiment with groups of brave infertile women, Joy takes on the feel of a plucky underdog story, with the leads making for enjoyable company. While Norton doesn’t really have much to do, there’s a nice interplay between Mckenzie and Nighy, as Jean confides about her own inability to conceive. Jean’s journey from detached scientist to an emotionally involved supporter of women is nicely played by Mckenzie, as is the inner conflict of being shunned by both her church and her god-fearing mother (a stubborn Joanna Scanlan).

Other elements of the film are a bit less effective. From director Ben Taylor, who worked on Sex Education, you can expect plenty of hilariously blunt descriptions of sex, mostly delivered by Nighy. But there’s also too much quickly delivered exposition about fertilisation that you won’t understand, and an obvious score that seems designed to elicit different emotions at different times. As it sticks closely to a familiar formula, few of the huge breakthrough moments really feel earned.

But while it might lack narrative verve, the strength of its subject matter just about pulls it through. It is most affecting when it focusses on the stories of mothers who don’t have the option to conceive, with their heart-breaking setbacks leading to some genuinely affecting scenes. Unfortunately, predictable storytelling prevents this from being an absolute joy.

Joy is a warm and frequently moving account of a miraculous moment in history, even if it lacks the narrative fireworks to truly spark to life.

★★★

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THE LARKINS (2021 - )

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Joy (12A): Unbridled Joy From the Development of IVF Treatment.

One Mann's Movies Film Review of "Joy". A solid British film documenting the emotional creation of IVF treatment. 3.5/5.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Joy” (2024) (From the 2024 London Film Festival). This movie is NOT to be confused with the 2015 Jennifer Lawrence film “Joy“. There are no mops in sight here! We are instead in the UK of the late 1960’s here and the development of the now-familiar and common-place IVF treatment. This led to the birth of the world’s first ‘test-tube baby’, Louise Brown. I was…

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Slow Horses season 4 screening confirmed for An Evening with Radio Times at the BFI | Radio Times

Held at London's BFI Southbank on Monday 2nd September, An Evening with Radio Times will screen the first episode of season 4 and also feature a Q&A with cast members including Jack Lowden, Saskia Reeves, Christopher Chung, and Joanna Scanlan.

[glitterypin]

there are no words for the inimitable talent of british tv shows in being incredibly bleak and incredibly funny at the same time