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DADDY’S HOME 2 is the sequel to the 2015 Will Ferrell/Mark Wahlberg hit DADDY’S HOME; that movie cost US$69 million and took US$242 million, so a follow-up was always going to happen. The original was all about a formerly absent father Dusty(Wahlberg) trying to win back his ex-wife and kids from the current husband and step-dad Brad (Ferrell). Dusty was all confidence and machismo while Brad was a...

Jigsaw is back. Or is he?!

The film 1922 is the latest Stephen King adaptation to arrive on our screens. It is based on the novella of the same name from King’s 2010 collection Full Dark, No Stars. It stars Thomas Jane in role of Nebraska farmer Wilfred James, a man who loves working on his farm, but who is struggling with difficult seasons and with the fact that the property is actually owned by his wife Arlette (Molly Par...

On a job to hunt a mountain lion, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agent Cory Lambert (Jeremy Renner), discovers the frozen body of Natalie Hanson, an 18-year old resident of the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming. She isn’t properly dressed, she has no shoes and she is bloodied. He informs her family and contacts the local policeman Ben (Graham Greene). Eventually, rookie FBI special agent Ja...

NARCOS returns to Netflix on September 1st. Season 3 of this ground-breaking series is new territory in more ways than one. Seasons 1 and 2 covered the rise and fall of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar. The demise of Escobar and the Medellin drug cartel means its chief competitor, the Cali cartel, is now the leading manufacturer and importer of cocaine in the world. They become responsible for 90...

LOGAN LUCKY; the movie has an ungainly title, but apart from this, it fires on all cylinders. As in all good heist films, the audience should want the would-be criminals to get away with their clever plan. The Logans are worthy subjects for our cinematic admiration. The three siblings live in West Virginia and they’re doing it tough. Jimmy (Channing Tatum) was going to be a professional football p...

1947. Lord and Lady Mountbatten arrive in Delhi. He is the last Viceroy of India and he is charged with the task of overseeing the transition of British India into an independent nation. While Lord Mountbatten speaks with Indian leaders, sectarian violence between Sikhs, Hindus and Muslims increases. This violence pushes the British towards Partition, the creation of the Dominion of India (Hindu) ...

Advertising copywriter Catrin Cole (Gemma Arterton) thinks she is interviewing for a secretary’s job at the Ministry of Information’s film unit, however they are looking for someone who can articulate the women’s point-of-view for a series of informational short films. The Second World War is raging. It is 1940, not long after the Battle of Dunkirk and Catrin is living in London ...

David Stratton is best known to Australian audiences in his role as a film critic. For 28 years he co-presented a movie review show, first on SBS, then on ABC, with Margaret Pomeranz. The pair became known for never seeing eye-to-eye on the movies they saw (not true) and for a fractious presentation style which could make them seem more like a bickering couple than professional film critics (absol...

English groomsmen Tom (Kris Marshall), Graham (Kevin Bishop) and Luke (James Helm) have returned to make life difficult for David Locking (Xavier Samuel) the groom from the 2011 Australian comedy hit A FEW BEST MEN (directed by Stephan Elliott). A FEW BEST MEN was the raunchy comedy set in New South Wales’ Blue Mountains where David’s wedding to his bride Mia was obstacled continually ...