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Wendy Ide

London

Film Journalist, Critic, and Broadcaster at Freelance

Film Critic at The Observer

Film critic for The Observer, Screen International. Usually can be found at a film festival. Parent. Brummie-born S E Londoner. Migrating to threads: @wendyide

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  • Thunderbolts*: an atypically thoughtful Marvel movie

    1 week ago | observer.co.uk | Wendy Ide

    A superpowered Florence Pugh reprises her Black Widow assassin role in this atypically thoughtful, toned-up Marvel movie Thunderbolts* (127 mins, 12A)Directed by Jake Schreier; starring Florence Pugh, Lewis Pullman, Sebastian StanYelena Belova, first seen in Black Widow (2021).

  • Freaky Tales review – fun, scuzzy tribute to the exploitation flick

    3 weeks ago | msn.com | Wendy Ide

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  • Freaky Tales review - fun, scuzzy tribute to the exploitation flick

    3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Wendy Ide

    Ryan Coogler is not the only film-maker this week to have cashed in his Marvel card and made something savagely unexpected. Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, who burst on to the US indie scene with the lean, hard-edged drama Half Nelson in 2006 and went on to direct Captain Marvel, return to our screens with the grungy homage to exploitation flicks Freaky Tales. The setting for this baggy, loose-limbed anthology of four interconnected stories is Oakland, California, in 1987.

  • The Penguin Lessons review – Steve Coogan outshone by his feathered friend in 70s Argentina comedy drama

    3 weeks ago | msn.com | Wendy Ide

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  • Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story review - richly bittersweet portrait of an Irish literary great

    3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Wendy Ide

    Her raw, sexually and emotionally frank prose made her a sensation and got the Irish Catholic church hot under the cassock. She was an eloquent wit, a provocateur who could hold her own in literary circles and in the glittering party circuit of 1960s London. It’s now widely acknowledged that she was one of the greats of Irish literature.

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