LEO BOIX applauds an audacious, self-questioning film about grief, friendship and film-making
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Film Round-up: March 8
This week the Star's critics review Walk Like A Panther, Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story, You Were Never Really Here, Gringo, and Wonder Wheel
MARY CONWAY admires a brave and topical study of Armageddon that is, unfortunately, unable to come to a conclusion
ANDY HEDGECOCK, JAMES WALSH and JAMIE BRITTON review Hanging by a Wire, I Want Your Sex, The Pout-Pout Fish, and Rise of the Foot Soldier: Retribution
Chris Searle speaks to US pianist RAN BLAKE
EWAN CAMERON trawls the Edinburgh fringe for new political drama
In a season of Greek mythology NIAMH THORNTON looks at an intriguing relocation of Medea to contemporary Mexico
Walk Like a Panther (12A)
Directed by Dan Cadan
★★★
PRACTICALLY every film today ends up feeding television’s increasingly insatiable appetite for material to fill the medium’s screens 24/7.
Walk Like a Panther reverses that trend in that writer and first-time director Dan Cadan first brought his wrestling-based comedy concept to life as a short-lived 2008 TV sitcom.
Here he establishes the narrative background with an opening flashback tribute to the popular 1980s ITV Saturday afternoon television show World of Sport, whose larger-than-life wrestling icons included brawlers such as Big Daddy, Giant Haystacks and Mick McManus.
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