WILL STONE fact-checks the colourful life of Ozzy Osbourne
Film round-up: August 18, 2022
The Star's critic Maria Duarte reviews My Old School, Fisherman’s Friends: One and All, Anais in Love, and The Feast
Alan Cumming as Brandon
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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
My Old School (15)
Directed by Jono McLeod
★★★★
IN 1993 a Canadian student, Brandon Lee, joined the 5th form at Bearsden Academy in a posh suburb of Glasgow to follow his lifelong dream to go to medical school and become a doctor.
The slight problem was that he wasn’t Canadian, he wasn’t called Brandon or Lee and he wasn’t 16-years-old. He was also a failed medical student.
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