WILL STONE fact-checks the colourful life of Ozzy Osbourne
Film round-up: January 6, 2023
MARIA DUARTE reviews of A Man Called Otto, Piggy and The Enforcer
Mariana Trevino as Marisol and Tom Hanks as Otto Anderson
JAMES CROSSLEY applauds a lucid biography of the German radical preacher who reemerged as a hero in the GDR
Prizes all round: the Bard hands plaudits to the Miners Gala, OT&JC, Joe Solo, Black Sabbath’s frontman and the Lionesses
Star cartoonist JAMIE BRITTON is in awe of a graphic novel of epic proportions that explores class, religion and globalisation via the strange cultivation of Ginseng in the US Midwest
GUILLERMO THOMAS is intrigued by a history of the Middle East that demonstrates how promising post colonial beginnings were snuffed out by Western imperialist interests
MARIA DUARTE recommends the intricate study of a high-performance and highly dysfuntional German family
A Man Called Otto (15)
Directed by Marc Forster
★★★★
IT IS always a worry when a superb foreign film is remade for the US and British markets just because viewers detest reading subtitles.
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