Tag: Olivia Colman
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The Roses: Thorns in the Wallpaper
Jay Roach’s The Roses is a domestic demolition derby dressed in gourmet frosting and architectural ambition. It’s a comedy of manners turned feral, where Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch claw through the wreckage of a marriage with the elegance of two people who once loved each other deeply—and now weaponize that love. The film dances…
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Wicked Little Letters: Primly, Properly, Profane
MOVIE INFO: A 1920s English seaside town bears witness to a farcical and occasionally sinister scandal in this riotous mystery comedy. Based on a stranger than fiction true story, WICKED LITTLE LETTERS follows two neighbors: deeply conservative local Edith Swan (Olivia Colman) and rowdy Irish migrant Rose Gooding (Jessie Buckley). When Edith and fellow residents…
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“The Favourite”: A Historical Story About Three Women, Monarchial Treachery and Seventeen Rabbits
Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos is a specialist on absurd forms of cruelty. In The Favourite Lanthimos gives up the absurd for the cruelly humanly comic and comes up with his most nasty and pleasing torment piece yet. This story of two courtesans (Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone) vying for the love, affection and the power…