Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
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
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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
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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