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Film round-up: August 18, 2022
The Star's critic Maria Duarte reviews My Old School, Fisherman’s Friends: One and All, Anais in Love, and The Feast
Alan Cumming as Brandon
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CHRISTOPHER POLLARD explains how and why neoliberalism adopted the racist agenda common to the populist right of today
SYLVIA HIKINS recommends a sweeping survey of the world's biggest desert and the people who live there
GUILLERMO THOMAS is persuaded by a scathing critique of the Church of England and its embeddedness in imperialism
MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review Materialists, Unmoored, Together, and Bambi: A Tale of Life in The Woods
TONY BURKE revels in the publication of previously unreleased tracks by the great US folksinger
GORDON PARSONS endures heavy rock punctuated by Shakespeare, and a delighted audience
My Old School (15)
Directed by Jono McLeod
★★★★
IN 1993 a Canadian student, Brandon Lee, joined the 5th form at Bearsden Academy in a posh suburb of Glasgow to follow his lifelong dream to go to medical school and become a doctor.
The slight problem was that he wasn’t Canadian, he wasn’t called Brandon or Lee and he wasn’t 16-years-old. He was also a failed medical student.
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