Momoa’s surprising softer side revealed
When he’s off duty as Aquaman, the hulking Honolulu-born actor Jason Momoa likes to do revenge-hunted man-survivalist action thrillers. He combines all three in the new Netflix film Sweet Girl
Stephen Romei
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In 1971 you are the most beautiful boy in the world. Fifty years later you are a long-haired, bearded 66-year-old being threatened with eviction.
Red Heaven is a book for ‘Judgment Day’
Nicolas Rothwell’s new book, Red Heaven, is an outstanding novel. It is romantic, dramatic, intelligent, cultured, enigmatic, cinematic, musical and human.
Val Kilmer reveals all
From the crushing reality of playing Batman to being sidelined for Sean Penn and Kevin Bacon, the actor unloads some truths in his new documentary Val.
‘M. Night Shyamalan’s Old is a one-star movie’
It’s so silly that it is worth seeing, including but not only for the scene in which Australian model and actor Abbey Lee goes all Exorcist because she fears she’s losing her looks.
Did the devil make him do it?
The latest film in The Conjuring franchise, The Devil Made Me Do It, is drawn from a landmark 1981 court case in the US.
Edson Oda’s Nine Days: What on earth is it about?
As someone who likes leaving a cinema asking that question, I should award this ambitious existential drama 10 stars.
‘It was a disgrace of a performance’
Sir Alex Ferguson is an enigma. The latest attempt to unravel him is one of the best sports documentaries I have seen.
It all started at the Bondi Bowl
“The more you skate, the less scared you get,’’ said an eight-year-old Poppy Starr Olsen. Now, at 21, she’s skating for Australia.
Fast and Furious 9, another spin around the block
A bizarre scene involving a Pontiac Fiero could be the most far-fetched vehicle modification in the series to date.
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