WILL STONE fact-checks the colourful life of Ozzy Osbourne
Herself
MARIA DUARTE recommends a shocking and turbulent film about a mother’s struggle to escape her abusive husband and build a new home for her family
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
Herself (15)
Directed by Phyllida Lloyd
A SINGLE mother of two embarks on a gruelling journey to escape her abusive partner and protect her daughters as she takes on the bureaucracy of the broken housing system in this uplifting yet heartbreaking drama, penned by actor turned writer Clare Dunne.
Set in Dublin, the film opens with a young woman (Dunne) dancing and singing with her two little girls (an impressive Ruby Rose O’Hara and Molly McCann) to Sia’s rousing Chandelier before swiftly turning into a brutal horror show as their father arrives and viciously beats their mother and smashes her hand. This scene continually haunts Sandra (Dunne) and her youngest daughter Molly (McCann), who secretly witnessed it.
More from this author
MARIA DUARTE recommends the intricate study of a high-performance and highly dysfuntional German family
MARIA DUARTE recommends the ambitious portrait of an agricultural community confronted by the trauma of enclosure
MARIA DUARTE recommends a chilling examination of the influence of Evangelical Christianity over the far right in Brazil
MARIA DUARTE recommends the creepy thrills of David Cronenburg’s provocative and macabre exploration of grief
