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What to stream this week (clockwise from top left): Heads of State; When No One Sees Us; Ironheart; Watchmen; Joh: Last King of Queensland; and The Waterfront.

What to stream this week: Richard Roxburgh as Joh and five more to watch

A sun-soaked crime drama with echoes of Dept. Q, a documentary about Joh Bjelke-Peterson and a new Marvel superhero are the picks this week.

  • Craig Mathieson

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Richard Roxburgh portrays Bjelke-Petersen in the documentary.

‘The Trumpian model’: Richard Roxburgh takes on Australia’s most provocative politician

A documentary about Joh Bjelke-Petersen argues that the man who ruled Queensland for almost 20 years paved the way for the US president.

  • Karl Quinn
 Richard Roxburgh as journalist Peter Greste in The Correspondent.

Richard Roxburgh’s nervy intensity works in a film about despair in an Egyptian prison

The Rake star plays jailed journalist Peter Greste in The Correspondent.

  • Sandra Hall
Peter Greste (left) and actor Richard Roxburgh, who portrays him in the movie The Correspondent.

They made a movie about my prison nightmare. I watched it through my fingers

As Richard Roxburgh stars as me in a feature film, I confront a disturbing reality: more journalists are behind bars today than when I was incarcerated in Egypt more than a decade ago.

  • Peter Greste
Jason Momoa stars in A Minecraft Movie.

From Minecraft to Superman and 28 Years Later: 20 movies we can’t wait to see

Smart genre plays and arthouse surprises will punctuate the box office bets being made by Hollywood.

  • Craig Mathieson

The February 15 Edition

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‘Horrific’: Roxburgh on reliving Peter Greste’s Egyptian jail hell for the big screen

When journalist Peter Greste was languishing in a Cairo prison cell, he could little imagine that one day, Richard Roxburgh would portray his ordeal in a film.

  • David Leser
The award-winning actor and former journalist reflect on making The Correspondent.
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Richard Roxburgh and Peter Greste on bringing a dark story to the big screen

The award-winning actor and former journalist reflect on making The Correspondent.

‘I was totally enamoured the second I saw him’: Silvia Colloca on life with Richard Roxburgh

“Being with Richard was the first time I felt that I wanted to have kids. It was different to any other love I had felt before,” says the 47-year-old cook.

  • Jane Rocca
“As I age, I love the idea of moving into roles that are challenging and vastly different from other characters I’ve played.”

‘Don’t waste time worrying about trivial crap’: Rebecca Gibney on a life worth living

Once described as the “mother of the nation”, the veteran actor speaks frankly on mental health, menopause and her latest role as a calculating church leader.

  • Lorna Gray

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