What to watch this weekend
A SUPERHERO sequel and a strange tale of ‘endurance tickling’ are some of the picks of the streaming offerings this weekend. Leigh Paatsch has the lowdown.
Leigh Paatsch
Book Club charged with Fifty Shades of Grey Power
REVIEW: The lead characters of Book Club are four females of a certain age who find their love lives transformed for better and for worse after reading all the Fifty Shades of Grey novels.
Happytime Murders is a mucky Muppets movie
THE Happytime Murders looks like a Muppets movie, but it certainly doesn’t behave like one. Kinky sex, hard drugs and serial killers means this is no place for Kermit or Miss Piggy.
Five grown-up chick flicks to stream
THE release of Book Club is a timely reminder that Hollywood can still make good ‘women’s pictures’ when it puts its mind to it. Here are five more mature-age must-sees to stream at home.
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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
TO qualify as one of 2015’s Most Over-Rated Actors, a candidate must be a repeat offender when it comes to partially or completely failing to deliver the goods.
The feelgood film that makes you feel nothing
REVIEW: Comedian Carl Barron’s Manny Lewis is one of the most truly terrible Australian films in living memory — and this is why.
Review: Kidnapping Mr Heineken
REVIEW: Kidnapping Mr Heineken is a middling thriller noticeably short on thrills as it re-stages a ransom scheme that enthralled Europe in the 1980s.
Review: Inherent Vice
REVIEW: Inherent Vice is a tremendously trippy adaptation of the way-out Thomas Pynchon novel by Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights).
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