ANDY HEDGECOCK is entertained by a playful novel that embeds a fictional game at its heart
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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
Death comes for Liberals, entitled murder, Vatican hit squads, and fraternising with the Blitz killer
New releases from Public Image Ltd, William Basinski, and John Luther Adams
GABRIELE NEHER draws attention to an astoundingly skilled Flemish painter who defied the notion that women cannot paint like men
The Bard pays homage to Hull’s finest promoter and venue, and awards Douze Points to Laibach
KEVIN DONNELLY outlines how the bourgeois institutions inhibit our ability to to view art in revolutionary ways, and suggests some tactics to overturn it
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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