Seven shows you must stream this week
FROM one of the greatest war epics ever made to a clown of nightmares, Leigh Paatsch reveals his top picks for the best things to stream on your winter weekend in.
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Brothers’ Nest falls too far from Kenny tree
BROTHERS’ Nest marks a big step down in quality, execution and direct audience appeal for the team that gave us the classic Australian crowd-pleaser Kenny.
Thriller ends up a bit vanilla
UPGRADE is a slick, low-budget offering that shows glimpses of brilliance but ultimately loses itself and falls short of the mark.
Pain of war charted in controversial film
FOXTROT defies classification but this unusual film, which has been a lightning rod for controversy, will leave you thinking long after its final act.
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Movie review: The Best Of Me
REVIEW: Michelle Monaghan and James Marsden stick to the formula in another sob story from the pen of Nicholas “The Notebook” Sparks.
Movie review: thriller John Wick
REVIEW: Keanu Reeves is a ex-hitman out of retirement and out for revenge in the defiantly trashy thriller movie John Wick.
Movie review: Force Majeure (M)
REVIEW: This icy cold relationship procedural will chill you to the bone for some time to come. And also put you off a holiday at the snow!
Move review: Brad Pitt sweetens Fury
REVIEW: All that can be said of Fury is that it is what is — a brutally basic war picture with Brad Pitt aboard to sweeten the deal.
Review: This Is Where I Leave You
REVIEW: One of those broad ensemble displays forged from a familiar template — the cracked family reglued together after a loved one’s death.
Review: Hector and the Search for Happiness
REVIEW: Simon Pegg’s self-help soul crusade is like Ben Stiller’s Secret Life of Walter Mitty, except he only finds crappiness, not happiness.
Review: Before I Go To Sleep (M)
REVIEW: In the annals of amnesia movies Before I Go To Sleep, starring Nicole Kidman, may not be remembered fondly. If at all.
Movie review: Whiplash
MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Whiplash’ — This incredibly intense war waged between teacher and student is one of the year’s best and Oscars-bound.
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