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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
(L) Mysterious Ways; (R) About Dry Grasses [IMDb]

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. 

About Dry Grasses (15)
Directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan

★★ 


 
Deadpool & Wolverine (15)
Directed by Shawn Levy 

★★★★ 

I Saw The TV Glow (15)
Directed by Jane Schoenbrun

★★★ 

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