WILL STONE fact-checks the colourful life of Ozzy Osbourne
The Real Charlie Chaplin
MARIA DUARTE recommends a documentary exploring the rags-to-riches transformation of Charlie Chaplin into a global superstar — a brilliant but troubled performer, with a dark side.
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
The Real Charlie Chaplin
Directed by James Spinney and Peter Middleton
AT ONE point hailed as the most famous person in the world, it is hard not to think of Charlie Chaplin without picturing his small hat, cane, boots and signature moustache.
“Chaplin makes the Tramp and the Tramp makes Chaplin,” narrates Pearl Mackie in James Spinney and Peter Middleton’s comprehensive and gripping documentary which aims to shed new light on who the real Charlie Chaplin is.
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