MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
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A storming tale
MARIA DUARTE recommends a nail-biting narrative of a couple battling the odds in the eye of a hurricane
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
Adrift (12A)
Directed by Baltasar Kormakur
THIS drama about survival against all the odds is based on the remarkable true story of Tami Oldham Ashcraft and her fiance Richard Sharp. They set sail from Tahiti to San Diego in 1983 before encountering one of the most catastrophic hurricanes in recorded history.
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