Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
Hot mess
MARIA DUARTE endures three hours of overblown Hollywood narcissism and, strangely, recommends it
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ALISTAR FINDLAY is mesmerised by this multiple ‘Visions of Scotland’ assault on the audience’s eyes and senses
The Star's critics ANGUS REID, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA reviews I Am Love, The Penguin Lessons, Freaky Tales, The Thicket
MAYER WAKEFIELD has reservations about the direction of a play centered on a DVLA re-training session for three British-Pakistani motorists
New releases from Steve Knightley, Jupiter & Okwess, Jason Palmer, Lisa Knapp and Gerry Driver, Kin'Gongolo Kiniata, Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey, Dan Sealey, Simin Tande, PAZ
Peter Mitchell's photography reveals a poetic relationship with Leeds
A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
Babylon (18)
Directed by Damien Chazelle
LIVING UP to its name, Academy Award winning director Damien Chazelle’s Babylon is an epic depiction of the debauchery, greed and narcissism of Hollywood in the 1920s.
Chazelle explores the dark underbelly of Tinseltown in an ambitious extravaganza that, with a running time of more than three hours, is an assault on the senses, bursting onto the big screen like an unstoppable juggernaut. You can neither catch your breath nor take everything in as Chazelle throws everything into the mix including an elephant, a chicken and a snake.
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