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Our experts review seven new streaming offerings, including a true crime series on the horrifying British serial killers Fred and Rose West.
Back for its fourth season, Hacks is skewing the male-dominated world of comedy in new and hilarious ways.
With their new show Happiness, Kip Chapman and Luke Di Somma have created a welcome New Zealand answer to the backstage musical TV show.
This week we recommend a series about the dangers of the manosphere, an exhibition in Oxford, a play in Bristol, a historical game and a record-breaking animated film.
At the centre of the new Netflix show is a devastating truth: the most dangerous place in the world for a teenager is alone in their bedroom.
The show raises critical questions about how the UK treats young offenders.
Thai characters are few and far between and the country is depicted as beautiful and hedonistic Asian Las Vegas.
The terms ‘gritty’ and ‘real’ have come to characterise Aussie teen drama. Invisible Boys is no exception, and will give you something to challenge your worldview.
A series about Mussolini’s rise, a film about a terrorist attack, a book about a massacre and more
The Netflix series follows the rise and fall of Gibson, as Aussie blogger who claimed natural methods had helped her overcome ‘malignant brain cancer’.
M. Son of the Century is a powerful and timely dramatisation of the early political years of Mussolini
This PR crisis management comedy will take you on a riveting exploration of marketing, language and the state of Australian media.
Our film and TV experts review a host of new streaming picks, including the final season of acclaimed mockumentary What We Do In The Shadows.
Based on books written by Herbert’s son, the series strays in a few details from the writer’s vision of the Dune World.
The sisters are still very close, cloyingly so at times, always in each other’s houses, lives and pockets.
The show is based on Verne’s classic novel
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. But unlike the book, the series is derivative, didactic and not very deep.
The new show, centred on power struggles in Australia’s Top End, joins a spate of successful Australian commissions released by the streamer this year.
The remake mirrors the US version: a romance, office tensions, an old-school boss who craves camaraderie, and a staff for whom work life comes second to what they’d rather be doing.
The eight-episode series follows a range of fictional characters as they live through true events that took place in Australia in 1979.
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