ALAN McGUIRE welcomes a biography of the French semiologist and philosopher
Film Round-up: March 8
This week the Star's critics review Walk Like A Panther, Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story, You Were Never Really Here, Gringo, and Wonder Wheel
ALEX HALL is frustrated by a book that ducks a clear definition of terrorism and fails to perceive the role of the state in sponsoring it
JOE GILL wholeheartedly recommends an eloquent manifesto: how to change the world one local project at a time
Inspired by a photograph, a unique memorial in Michigan immortalises US true labour heroes. MICHAL BONCZA recalls a great story rarely told
MARIA DUARTE, LEO BOIX and ANGUS REID review Brides, Dead of Winter, A Night Like This, and The Librarians
MARIA DUARTE is entertained by a wry portrait of befuddled resistance to US authoritarianism
Walk Like a Panther (12A)
Directed by Dan Cadan
★★★
PRACTICALLY every film today ends up feeding television’s increasingly insatiable appetite for material to fill the medium’s screens 24/7.
Walk Like a Panther reverses that trend in that writer and first-time director Dan Cadan first brought his wrestling-based comedy concept to life as a short-lived 2008 TV sitcom.
Here he establishes the narrative background with an opening flashback tribute to the popular 1980s ITV Saturday afternoon television show World of Sport, whose larger-than-life wrestling icons included brawlers such as Big Daddy, Giant Haystacks and Mick McManus.
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