Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
Film round-up: August 22, 2024
Gangs, flat champagne, nightmare island and completely cuckoo: the Star's critic MARIA DUARTE reviews new releases Cadejo Blanco, Widow Clicquot, Blink Twice and Cuckoo
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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
Cadejo Blanco (15)
Directed by Justin Lerner
★★★★
THIS quietly powerful and uber-tense thriller provides a fascinating insight into the workings of gangs in Guatemala.
Written and directed by Justin Lerner, and his first film in Spanish, it follows Sarita (Karen Martinez, Our Mothers) a teenage working-class girl from Guatemala City who travels to Puerto Barrios in search of her missing sister Bea (Pamela Martinez).
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ANGUS REID deconstructs a popular contemporary novel aimed at a ‘queer’ young adult readership
