Margaret Atwood adaptations are coming to streaming services in waves. Hulu previously announced a 10-episode series adaptation of her 1985 novel “The Handmaid’s Tale” starring Elisabeth Moss. This past June, Netflix and CBC greenlit a six-hour miniseries adaptation of her novel “Alias Grace,” written and produced by Sarah Polley (“Stories We Tell,” “The Last Waltz”) and directed by Mary Harron (“American Psycho”). Today, Netflix and CBC announce that the miniseries will star Oscar-winning actress Anna Paquin.
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Based on factual events “Alias Grace” follows the 1843 murders of wealthy Thomas Kinnear and his housemaid and lover Nancy Montgomery (played by Paquin). They were supposedly killed by two servants: Grace Marks (Sarah Gadon) a poor, young Irish immigrant and stable hand James McDermott. McDermott was ultimately hanged and Marks was sentenced to life in prison. There’s much controversy over...
Read More: ‘Alias Grace’: Sarah Polley Helming Margaret Atwood Miniseries for Netflix
Based on factual events “Alias Grace” follows the 1843 murders of wealthy Thomas Kinnear and his housemaid and lover Nancy Montgomery (played by Paquin). They were supposedly killed by two servants: Grace Marks (Sarah Gadon) a poor, young Irish immigrant and stable hand James McDermott. McDermott was ultimately hanged and Marks was sentenced to life in prison. There’s much controversy over...
- 8/16/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
With twenty years on the clock and his fair share of cinematic skeletons in some dubious closets it is satisfying to see Mark Ruffalo begin to get the recognition he deserves. Often he shines in small roles in big films, or sets his sights on a larger role in a smaller, independent film and yet his quiet everyman quality always has a glimmer of something engaging and real thrown into the mix.
To celebrate the release of What Doesn’t Kill You, out on DVD and Blu-ray on the 2nd of September, we have looked back over some of the many reasons we’re fans of the actor. This is not an exhaustive list of his great roles; The Kids Are All Right and You Can Count on Me do not appear, nor do the likes of Zodiac and Shutter Island, but they are all worth checking out.
These four...
To celebrate the release of What Doesn’t Kill You, out on DVD and Blu-ray on the 2nd of September, we have looked back over some of the many reasons we’re fans of the actor. This is not an exhaustive list of his great roles; The Kids Are All Right and You Can Count on Me do not appear, nor do the likes of Zodiac and Shutter Island, but they are all worth checking out.
These four...
- 8/30/2013
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
There’s the distinct feeling as 2011 has now come and gone that it will not be remembered among the stronger years of recent cinema; countless prestige pics (The Iron Lady, J. Edgar, The Lady) proved disappointing, more so than is regularly anticipated, while blockbuster fare, though solid, didn’t deliver any Inception or Toy Story 3-caliber outings. There were, however, some wonderful genre films populating the later months of the year, including peculiarly tantalising sci-fi and sports films, as well as the British horror scene’s most diverting entry in years. Add to that some profound meditations on parenting, the film industry, memory, addiction, animal cruelty and domestic abuse, and you have what is nevertheless as diverse a year as any, even if it possibly lacked that one affirmative zeitgeist film that is going to be talked about not only in art house circles but in pub discussions for years to come.
- 1/25/2012
- by Shaun Munro
- Obsessed with Film
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