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May 8, 2019

UK thriller 'Cordelia' with Johnny Flynn, Antonia Campbell-Hughes finds sales agent (exclusive)

Moviehouse joins completed project from the producers of Funny Cow…

April 19, 2019

Funny Cow is comedy that unashamedly presents racism, homophobia and misogyny to remind us just how far we’ve come

For every awful joke, there are some zingers delivered with blistering ferocity. Peake clearly relished the role and delivers some barbed gags with the weary venom you’d imagine Marti Caine to have conjured in her rise.

February 21, 2019

Maxine Peake Reveals How She Became a Funny Cow in Comedy-Drama’s Exclusive Clip

Building up the backbone to share their funnybone can be a challenge for any aspiring comedian, but it’s especially difficult for a woman who longs to be in the spotlight that’s usually occupied by men. But actress Maxine Peake is proving that despite her seemingly innocent and pure nature, she can actually be quite glamorous and sophisticated on stage. The performer’s proving her comedic talents in her new British film, ‘Funny Cow.’

August 12, 2018

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Playing a working-class woman from the north of England who, in the 1970s, tries to become a stand-up comedian, Maxine Peake gives a strong performance in this drama. The character is opaque in some ways, but she clearly has the tough vitality required for her work in harsh pubs and clubs — settings the film depicts in all their dinginess. Dir: Adrian Shergold (2017)

April 29, 2018

Funny Cow review: Maxine Peake is wonderful as a female comedian

Some people are born to do what they do. They can’t be any other way. So it is with Maxine Peake’s heroine in the new British film Funny Cow, about a female comedian making her way in the northern clubs of the 1970s and 1980s.

April 20, 2018

‘Funny Cow’ continues to garner great acclaim

Maxine Peake, a distinguished actress of TV and theatre, dominates this drama about a stand-up comedian with her transformative power.

April 17, 2018

"You can't beat making people laugh" Maxine Peake on playing Funny Cow in new film role

Actress Maxine Peake stars in a new movie about a northern stand-up comedian in the 1970s and 80s, and reveals how she had dreamed of a career in comedy herself

March 28, 2018

Sally Hawkins Executive Producing Psychological Thriller ‘Cordelia’

Sally Hawkins, the Oscar-nominated star of “The Shape of Water,” will take her first executive producer role, on “Cordelia,” a psychological thriller about a young woman who is haunted by past events and who starts to unravel when left alone in her apartment…

February 27, 2018

Maxine Peake Goes For Laughs In The Funny Cow Trailer

It's already been drawing some positive buzz, and Peake looks to be delivering a typically great performance. With Adrian Shergold directing and Tony Pitts on script duty, the cast also includes Stephen Graham, Kevin Eldon and cameos from the likes of John Bishop and Vic Reeves.

October 23, 2017

‘Funny Cow’: Film Review | London 2017

Maxine Peake stars as a working-class woman who longs to be a stand-up comedian in 'Funny Cow,' a British comedy-drama co-starring Paddy Considine and Stephen Graham.

October 11, 2017

Funny Cow review – Maxine Peake blazes in the dark days of standup

Peake is hypnotically belligerent as an ambitious club performer trampling over prejudice and sticky carpets on the 1970s comedy circuit

October 9, 2017

Star-studded Funny Cow premiere

The film follows Maxine's character, known as 'Funny Cow', as she struggles to free herself from an abusive home life and later finds herself drawn to the stand-up circuit of Northern England’s working men's clubs

January 19, 2017

Maxine Peake goes back to the '70s in blonde wig and fur coat as she prepares to shoot scenes for new drama Funny Cow

She takes a prominent role in new period drama Funny Cow. And Maxine Peake, 42, looked markedly different on set in West Yorkshire sporting a blonde wig and furry coat on Wednesday afternoon. The Silk actress, who takes the lead in the 70s set film, oozed old-school glamour in a sophisticated burgundy frock as she continued to film scenes.

January 12, 2017

Maxine Peake and Vic Reeves star in film to be released later this year

Filming for a major new comedy-drama is taking place in Saltaire.

May 10, 2016

Maxine Peake, Martin Freeman's 'Funny Cow' snapped up by eOne

Entertainment One (eOne) has pre-bought UK rights to comedy-drama Funny Cow from Moviehouse Entertainment.

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October 16, 2023

These are the films you need to add to your watch list this October

Maxine Peake lets rip as a brash and bolshie Northerner who gets out from under the heel of her abusive husband to become a stand-up comedian in 1970s Britain. The audiences at the gritty working men’s clubs she plays don’t know what’s hit them – and neither does Paddy Considine’s smitten book shop owner. There are laughs and tears here, plus an achingly beautiful soundtrack by Richard Hawley, while Peake’s defiant heroine has enough brass to keep a doorknob factory going for months.