Top earning dead celebrities

orator Henry Hunt (Rory Kinnear) plead their case.

‘We cannot allow this Wiltshire peacock to incite the spurious Masses,’ sneer the men in power, who position sword-wielding cavalry close to the protest site in case fiery rhetoric inspires a riot.

Peterloo is disappointingly light on textured human drama to complement the political tub-thumping.

The spectacularly orchestrated conclusion should be emotionally shattering but I was curiously unmoved, unable to find many faces in the crowd that I cared about as cavalry charged.

Leigh’s picture doesn’t quantify the loss of life in expository dialogue or with a title card at the end of the film, which seems a curious artistic decision for an epic, sprawling memorial to survivors and the fallen.

RATING: 7/10 For the sixth year in a row, Michael Jackson has topped Forbes’ list of top-earning dead celebrities, thanks partly to the sale of his EMI Music Publishing stake, a TV special called Michael Jackson’s Hallowe’en, and a new Sony record deal. Jackson has amassed $2.4 billion in earnings since his death in 2009.

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