PHILOMENA LEE DEFENDS FILM FROM NEW YORK POST'S KYLE SMITH

If you've seen Stephen Frears' Philomena, you'll know that Philomena Lee is a real badass bitch! Not rly, but she is a pretty cool gal, only Kyle Smith from the New York Post thinks that the true story of her life was actually calculated as an attack on the catholicism that raised her and the *SPOILER ALERT* Republican political beliefs held by her beloved son. It's a review that puzzled me since I first noticed it a few weeks back. And it seems to have puzzled Philomena Lee too. So, as there is surely no-one else in a better position to, she has responded to his scathing review (far more hateful than anything in the film that he considers so hateful) with this terrific letter, which you can (and must) read at Deadline.