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6 days ago | 
flicks.com.au | Amelia Berry |Travis Johnson |Eliza Janssen |Luke Buckmaster
Healthy, invigorating, confronting… what more could you ask for? Nicole Kidman returns as an extremely unconventional therapist (along with a fresh batch of clients) in season two of Nine Perfect Strangers – streaming on Prime Video. The show has gained a lot from being in its second season, writes Amelia Berry. What’s stopping you from being the person you want to be? Maybe a bad relationship with your mother? A trauma hidden deep in your past?
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6 days ago | 
flicks.com.au | Amelia Berry |Rory Doherty |Dominic Corry |Liam Maguren
The good news first: this is as classy looking a suspense thriller as you’d expect from the maker of The Usual Suspects. I found little to gripe about in terms of its pacing, imagery (lots of Nazi black, white and red, naturally) or indeed its performances. But there are a couple of key factors which stopped me loving Valkyrie.
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1 week ago | 
flicks.com.au | Dominic Corry |Luke Buckmaster |DAVID BROWN |Amelia Berry
The heartfelt and humorous Kiwi-Samoan film Tinā has been breaking records in its home country, where it is currently the sixth highest-grossing NZ of all time domestically. Now it comes to Australian cinemas, balancing laughter, loss and the warmth of home, Pasifika-style. Laumata Volavola explores its inspiration, performances, and music with writer-director-producer Miki Magasiva. For Miki Magasiva, his feature directorial debut Tinā is deeply personal.
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2 weeks ago | 
flicks.com.au | Dominic Corry |Luke Buckmaster |DAVID BROWN |Amelia Berry
Max has launched in Australia with an incredible back catalogue of must-see television. Travis Johnson picks the very best on offer. See also* All new movies & series on Max* All new streaming movies & seriesBansheeWATCH NOW ON MAXA pre-The Boys Antony Starr stars as an ex-con who assumes the identity of a murdered sheriff, who takes on Ben Cross’ ruthless crime lord, while trying to win back his former lover (Ivana Miličević). Complication #1: she’s his enemy’s daughter.
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2 weeks ago | 
flicks.com.au | Dominic Corry |Luke Buckmaster |DAVID BROWN |Amelia Berry
Clarisse Loughrey’s Show of the Week column spotlights a new show to watch or skip. This week: Carême introduces us to the world’s first celebrity chef, perfecting dishes and delicious blackmail in Napoleon-era France. Few shows state their thesis as swiftly and succinctly as Apple TV+’s Carême.
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2 weeks ago | 
flicks.com.au | Dominic Corry |Luke Buckmaster |DAVID BROWN |Amelia Berry
Clarisse Loughrey’s Show of the Week column, published every Friday, spotlights a new show to watch or skip. This week: The Agency examines “what it costs a human being to abandon their identity.” While watching live footage of a man tortured at the CIA’s behest, an agent absentmindedly starts to hum. Someone had mentioned Bruce Springsteen. Now she has Dancing in the Dark stuck in her head. It comes across as sociopathic. It probably is sociopathic.
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2 weeks ago | 
flicks.com.au | Dominic Corry |Luke Buckmaster |DAVID BROWN |Amelia Berry
Nicolas Cage melts down in The Surfer, a surreal coastal horror that Luke Buckmaster links to the sweaty terror of Wake in Fright. Wake in Fright. Wake in Fright. Wake in Fright. For a long time, while watching The Surfer, those three words reverberated in my mind, on repeat like a broken record.
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2 weeks ago | 
flicks.com.au | Dominic Corry |Luke Buckmaster |DAVID BROWN |Amelia Berry
Fresh off The White Lotus: Season 3, Jason Isaacs takes the lead alongside Gillian Anderson in The Salt Path. As Liam Maguren writes, the two seemingly similar roles are taken in vastly different directions thanks to the greatness of Isaacs. Jason Isaacs has had a long and storied career.
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2 weeks ago | 
flicks.com.au | Dominic Corry |Luke Buckmaster |DAVID BROWN |Amelia Berry
Ben Affleck returns as the titular butt-kicking bean-counter in The Accountant 2—with Jon Bernthal along for the ride as his brother. Rory Doherty bros down with the action thriller. Quick survey: If you were a tactical genius and super smart detective, what is the likelihood that you’d invite your sibling on a high stakes mercenary mission? For Christian Wolff (Ben Affleck), the autistic mercenary and financial criminal who leads the Accountant series, there’s pros and cons.
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2 weeks ago | 
flicks.com.au | Dominic Corry |Luke Buckmaster |DAVID BROWN |Amelia Berry
Luke Buckmaster unpacks the brilliantly bizarre second season of The Rehearsal, in which Nathan Fielder—armed with a laptop harness and unsettling sincerity—blurs reality, comedy, and crisis. When I see Canadian comedian Nathan Fielder wearing his now-signature laptop harness, I think of Bob Dylan with his harmonica holder and Darth Vader with his ventilator.
