Film
Amrou Al-Kadhi: ‘Drag gives you a licence to sort of scare yourself and other people. But how do you bring that into your daily life?’
The performer and award-winning author discusses why and how he made his first film, Layla, a buoyant new drama concerning a British-Palestinian drag queen
Four new films to see this week
Mescal and Washington are solid in otherwise second-hand Gladiator II. Plus charmingly festive Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point, vibrant doc Soundtrack to a Coup d’État, and rigorous if cold drama In Camera
