Disney dives into ‘woke v racist’ argument
This Little Mermaid remake caused ripples when the cast was announced because Bailey, unlike the original, is not white.
Stephen Romei
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Jason Momoa saves Fast X from the scrap yard
The Aquaman star says he was drawn to the role because it let him tone down his masculinity. But the latest instalment in the Fast & Furious franchise is a let-down.
John Farnham movie a story of beating the odds
For long stretches John Farnham and his dancer wife, who have two sons, were ‘on the bones of our arse’, as she puts it. Then everything changed.
Mr Darcy meets Basil Fawlty in promising big screen debut
Nida Manzoor’s Polite Society starts out as a Pakistani Pride and Prejudice in today’s London and leaps an impressive distance from there.
After one date she ghosts him
Ana de Armas has a surprising excuse for not texting back in action comedy Ghosted, an Apple TV film about a spy and a civilian forced to join forces to stop the baddies.
Joaquin Phoenix in surreal odyssey or three-hour anxiety attack?
The actor’s performance as a late-40s man with a medicine cabinet full of problems deserves four stars.
Russell Crowe excels as Vatican exorcist-in-chief
The Pope’s Exorcist is a more fictional account that takes The Exorcist and adds a bit of the Da Vinci Code and a splash of Indiana Jones.
Whodunnit sequel not quite a killer
In Murder Mystery 2 Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler peddle borderline dad jokes. It’s a Friday night movie; one to watch with a glass of something and the brain in sleep mode.
This Michael Jordan, Nike film deserves Oscars buzz
Ben Affleck’s Air is less a sports movie than a sports marketing movie. The script is sharp and the performances are tremendous.
This timely sequel is a subversive delight
The Bookbinder of Jericho, like its predecessor, blends fact and fiction. Like all good historical novels, it has a timeliness that makes it relevant today.
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