GEOFF BOTTOMS relishes a profoundly human portrait of a family as it evolves across 55 years in Sheffield
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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PAUL DONOVAN applauds an excellently crafted new musical that explores the life and death of Ruth Ellis
PAUL DONOVAN is tickled by the excruciating take-downs of one of the funniest, wittiest, political writers around.
RON JACOBS points out, via a transcription of Kissinger’s secret recordings, that Trump could never have existed without Nixon and Kissinger
ELLIS RAE is persuaded that the advantages of the ‘talking cure’ are superior to the treatment of mental illness with drugs
JOHN GREEN, MICHAL BONCZA and BELLA KATZ review The Good Boy, Broken English, and Don't Be Prey
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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