FANNY LYE DELIVER’D – Review by Marina Antunes

Maxine Peake and Charles Dance star as Fanny and John Lye, Puritans who live with their young son Arthur, on a remote farm in the English countryside. John spends his time overseeing the day-to-day operation and a strict religious home while Fanny toils ceaselessly to serve her husband and son — until unexpected visitors upend their lives..

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AWFJ Movie of the Week, February 1-7: PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES

Opening February 5, AWFJ’s Movie of the Week is Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, the big screen adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith’s popular novel, which envisions Jane Austen’s classic playing out in a world populated by the living dead. Read on…

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AWFJ Movie of the Week, March 30-April 5, 2015: WOMAN IN GOLD

Opening April 1, AWFJ’s Movie of the Week is Woman in Gold, director Simon Curtis’ follow-up to 2011’s My Week With Marilyn. It stars Helen Mirren as real-life Jewish refugee Maria Altmann who, in later life, fought to recover family artwork stolen by the Nazis.

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