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Aliens, activists and art: the five best films added to US streaming this week

Highlights include Jordan Peele’s thriller Nope, the prescient abortion drama Call Jane and Oscar-nominated documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

The Guardian - US · Mar 24, 2023

Call Jane stars Elizabeth Banks as a housewife driven to obtain an illegal abortion in 60s Chicago

Denied a legal abortion, Elizabeth Banks' character joins an activist group in the new film from Carol screenwriter Phyllis Nagy, which highlights the ongoing precarity of reproductive healthcare.

ABC News · Nov 27, 2022

Gemma Arterton’s big-budget Dusty Springfield biopic mysteriously binned

The actress was set to star as the legendary singer in a new film

Evening Standard · Nov 18, 2022

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Call Jane review – timely, if occasionally jarring, abortion drama

Elizabeth Banks and Sigourney Weaver are charismatic in Phyllis Nagy’s directorial debut, about a group of women in the 60s providing abortions outside the law

The Guardian - UK · Nov 6, 2022

Movie review: Timely but opaque, 'Call Jane' doesn't resonate as it should

“Are you Jane?” It’s a question that Chicago housewife Joy (Elizabeth Banks) repeatedly asks, as she calls a number from a flyer, is picked up, blindfolded, driven to a nondescript office where she receives an illegal, but safe, abortion from an unfeeling doctor (Cory Michael Smith), and is then cared…

Tribune News Service · Oct 25, 2022

Call Jane director Phyllis Nagy on the pre-Roe v Wade activists who inspired her movie with Elizabeth Banks

The filmmaker had no idea just how relevant her movie, about a woman seeking an abortion in the 1960s, would become

Evening Standard · Oct 25, 2022

Phyllis Nagy: ‘Knowing Patricia Highsmith changed my thinking about how a female writer could live’

The American director and screenwriter on her new film about abortion activists in the 60s, Roe v Wade being overturned, and her ideal next Bond

The Guardian - UK · Oct 23, 2022

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Call Jane review – abortion drama is sensitive if not revelatory

Screenwriter Phyllis Nagy’s film on the pre-Roe underground abortion network features strong performances but never rises to a rousing battle cry

The Guardian - US · Jan 24, 2022

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