MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
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Solo squib
The latest in the Star Wars franchise disappoints MARIA DUARTE
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
Solo: A Star Wars Story (12A)
Directed by Ron Howard
FROM a galaxy far, far away comes another spin-off Star Wars film, this time providing Han Solo's origin story but if you are expecting a groundbreaking and trailblazing standalone adventure then “much to learn you still have.”
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