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Review: The Colour Room, the art deco story of Clarice Cliff

Leave a Comment / Movies, Streaming / By Virginia DeBolt / August 25, 2023 / Claire McCarthy, Claire Peate, Clarice Cliff, Darci Shaw, foreign films, Kerry Fox, Luke Norris, Matthew Goode, Phoebe Dynevor, The Colour Room, Women Directors

The Colour Room, from director Claire McCarthy, tells the story of English ceramic artist Clarice Cliff as she struggled in the 1920s to get her talent and her ideas noticed and accepted.

Rebecca Gibney and Geraldine Hakewill in Wanted

Review: Wanted, season 3

15 Comments / Streaming, TV series / By Virginia DeBolt / December 14, 2018 / Alex Malone, Clarence Ryan, foreign tv series, Geraldine Hakewill, Kate Box, Kerry Fox, Matt Whelan, Michael Whalley, Rebecca Gibney, Richard Bell, Robin Malcolm, season 3, Wanted

I love Wanted so much. I love the two ingenious MacGyver escape artist women in the lead. I love the hectic chase and pursuit of the plot. I love the depth of the women characters and the unbreakable bond between the two lead women. This Australian TV series with its great women leads is one of my all time favorite …

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Review: The Crimson Field

3 Comments / TV series / By Virginia DeBolt / March 31, 2016 / Alex Wyndham, Alice St. Clair, foreign tv series, Geraldine Chaplin, Hermione Norris, Jack Gordon, Jeremy Swift, Karl Davies, Kerry Fox, Kevin Doyle, Marianne Oldham, Oona Chaplin, Pamela Rabe, Richard Rankin, Rupert Graves, Sarah Phelps, Scott & Bailey, Scott and Bailey, Suranne Jones, The Crimson Field, Wentworth

The Crimson Field is a 6 episode series from the BBC. It aired in the UK in 2014 and is now available on Amazon Video, iTunes, and possibly from PBS On Demand. It’s about a British field hospital on the coast of France in World War I and the nurses and volunteers who care for the men there.