Normally, August is a rubbish time of year for films, as this week’s cinematic offerings prove. But, says Deborah Ross, there’s one release this week which is worth seeing, and that’s Kuma. An Austrian-Turkish project, it focuses on the life of Ayse, who is married off and moved to Vienna, where she finds that she’s actually been married off to the father of the person she thought she’d married – and as his second wife. It might all sound a bit confusing, but Deborah says it’s beautifully acted and ‘would shine bright at any time of year’, so I’ll hold her to her word.
What has happened to our television comedies? In recent weeks, the BBC have been busy hyping up their latest sitcom Big School, which features their favourite funny-man, David Walliams. But far from being entertained, Clarissa Tan was
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