Best movies to stream this week
Hollywood heavyweights Kevin Costner, Woody Harrelson and Spike Lee headline this week’s streaming with each taking a trip back into America’s dark past.
Leigh Paatsch
Best movies to take your kids to these school holidays
Don’t waste your time and money on a dud school holiday movie. With super heroes, animation and a reboot of an old Disney favourite on offer, let us help you pick the right movie for your kids these holidays.
Boredom is not an option with Shazam!
Put simply, Shazam! is non-stop fun, which at its best both sends up and stares down every stale and stodgy superhero flick you’ve ever had to sit through and leaves just as lasting a mark as its more serious counterparts.
Pet Sematary digs up fresh shocks from King’s classic chiller
Pet Sematary is a three-way collision between the whoa, the wow and the WTF?!, effortlessly inducing fear, poking fun and scarring the memory. Here, kitty kitty!
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REVIEW: If Will Ferrell’s new comedy Get Hard was a stand-up routine, it would be the same three jokes looped for 100 minutes. He should know better.
Leviathan: masterpiece a Russian epic
REVIEW: This hauntingly heavy-hearted drama is as much a movie as it is a message in a bottle. So who is in need of urgent assistance?
Cinderella: perfect for true believers
REVIEW: Everything is exactly as it should be in Disney’s lavish live-action adaptation of Cinderella.
Infinitely Polar Bear: family first
REVIEW: Mark Ruffalo gives powerhouse performance as a father struggling with mental illness in this gem from first-time director Maya Forbes.
Love Is Strange: A marriage laid bare
REVIEW: Love is Strange could have been heavy-going, but this intelligently crafted, beautifully acted light drama about gay marriage works wonders.
Run All Night: Neeson lets us have it
REVIEW: After the tired terrorising of Taken 3, Run All Night will probably only be seen by hardline Liam Neeson nuts.
Big Eyes: Art refuses to imitate life
REVIEW: With Big Eyes, the oddly tragi-comic life story of kitsch artist Margaret Keane is perfect cinematic fodder for famously eccentric director Tim Burton.
Insurgent: This one is strictly for fans
REVIEW: Insurgent reminds us that the Divergent series is the cheaper, dumber, moodier and not-so-hot cousin of The Hunger Games.
Home: A so-so animated adventure
REVIEW: Home opens with what must be the most, swift painless and happy-go-lucky alien invasion in movie history.
The 20 most over-rated actors
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