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Two Weeks to Live Review: Does Maisie Williams Revenge Comedy Hit the Target?

As disappointed as many fans were with the final episodes of Game of Thrones, there’s a particular kind of fevered anticipation when it comes to seeing what the cast and crew of such a long-running series choose to do next. This is perhaps heightened even further for those cast members who grew up on the series in question and haven’t really had the chance to stretch their acting legs yet, like Sophie Turner, Isaac Hempstead Wright or – starring in Sky’s new black comedy Two Weeks to Live – Maisie Williams. Williams takes centre stage here as Kim Oakes, an…
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The New Mutants: Maisie Williams Talks Same Sex Love Story and Kiss

Superhero movies have a notoriously poor track record on sincerely depicting disenfranchised or marginalized groups on the screen, LGBTQ+ or otherwise. Often every time a Hollywood studio brags about including a gay character in a major blockbuster, it turns out to be a character without a name, or a background player whose public display of affection can be easily trimmed out of international cuts of the film. That doesn’t appear to be the case with The New Mutants. While we still have not actually seen the long-forthcoming superhero-horror movie hybrid, much to the chagrin of the movie’s makers, the picture…
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