WILL STONE fact-checks the colourful life of Ozzy Osbourne
Reel concerns at Cannes Film Festival
AB Shawky's Yomeddine sees a pair of outcasts flee a leper colony and an orphanage in a captivating portrait of modern Egypt
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
WITH less emphasis on glamour and red carpet, Cannes got off to an unusually strong start with one of the most substantial opening films in years.
Asghar Farhadi’s Everybody Knows is a tense Spanish-language kidnapping drama starring Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem in which Laura (Cruz) returns to Spain to attend her sister’s wedding in a rural community where everyone’s lives are intermingled in innumerable ways.
The nuptials, involving the whole village, are suddenly plunged into darker territory when, during a power cut, Laura’s daughter is kidnapped and the repercussions are intriguingly tangled.
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