Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
Film round-up: July 25, 2024
Gay marriage, Anatolian snowscapes, lewd marvels and surreality TV: The Star's critic MARIA DUARTE reviews Mysterious Ways, About Dry Grasses, Deadpool & Wolverine, and I Saw The TV Glow
Round up
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
JOHN GREEN relishes photography that unfolds a longstanding and poetic relationship with Leeds
A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
Mysterious Ways
Directed by Paul Oremland
★★★
SET in New Zealand, this moving drama centres on a gay vicar who takes on his religious bosses in a bid to marry his Samoan boyfriend in church, sparking a media storm.
While his superiors do not have an issue with Peter (Richard Short, The Tragedy of Macbeth) being queer or having Jason (newcomer Nick Afoa) as his male partner, they do have a problem with the pair getting wed in a place of worship. Particularly when it scandalises the devout local community, inciting anti-gay protests.
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