At the moment, the number one song on America’s Billboard Hot 100 chart is surprisingly not from any of the expected pop favourites.
Would you look at that? It’s Friday already. Another week is almost done and dusted so high fives all around.
Netflix has had a rough few weeks as its share price plummets, and executives are likely looking back at these costly blunders with a grimace.
During a laughter-filled bro chat, Javier Bardem revealed that he once jumped out of a cake in “Bond girl” drag to serenade Daniel Craig.
Ironically titled, ‘Girls Can’t Surf’, this sports documentary returns to the ’80s to a time when professional women’s surfing kicked off, “a circus of fluro colours, peroxide hair and radical male egos”.
The 1999 cult classic ends with a strong ant-consumerism message, unless you happen to watch the version just released in China.
A damning 10-part docuseries has unmasked the ugly truth about Hugh Hefner, with former Playboy bunnies calling him a “predator,” a “vampire,” and a “monster”.
This masterful tale with Macedonian roots and creative-horror tinges follows a shape-shifting witch trying to figure out what it is to be human.
Since Daniel Craig’s last outing in No Time To Die, all the buff actors even slightly worthy of the highly sought-after 007 stage have been mentioned.
Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee will forever be linked due to the most notorious sex tape of all time. It was only a matter of time until that story was dramatised.
Focused on the parents of a murdered schoolboy sitting down with the parents of his teenage killer, ‘Mass’ is overflowing with astonishingly raw and nuanced emotion.
‘Dune’ journeys with Paul Atreides, a young noble who begins to discover his true calling. Dreams speak to his destiny as he becomes entrusted with protecting the precious resource known as spice, one of the galaxy’s most valuable and vital elements.
Stitched up in a “snazzy white suit and a whole lot of violence”, Oscar Isaac shows us what can happen if you lean into your insomnia and the chaos that follows.
The series’ rise to top spot in the US rankings is all the more remarkable in that it doesn’t have any big names attached and wasn’t hyped up much marketing-wise prior to its release.
Complete with horrendous customers, impossible managers, and sorry-for-themselves staff, the drama that unfolds in this kitchen-set feels exactly like an accelerating panic attack.
To those of you marooned at your desk, be it in the office or at home, we soldier on with 2022’s first Friday trailer perusal.
While the cover of this ‘Spider-Man’ comic is quite striking, it’s a single page from inside that has just sold for a mind-numbing amount.
The last time the Jackass crew ‘graced’ the big screen was back in 2010 with ‘Jackass 3D’. I guess they’ve had more than a decade to come up with exciting ways to hurt their pals.
‘Don’t Look Up’ is a political satire starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence from the guy who brought us ‘The Big Short’, ‘Vice’… oh, and ‘Anchorman’.
The Don’t F**k with Cats director Felicity Morris has another internet documentary coming to Netflix and it resembles a revenge thriller.
In 2019, fan film writer and director Morgan Cooper released a mock trailer for a dramatic reimagining of a 1990s classic. Will Smith noticed and the rest is history.
Last year at least, Netflix managed to create a number of excellent original movies, some of which are likely to be Oscar nominees.
David Attenborough’s new collaboration with nature, ‘The Green Planet’, shows how it is a leaf-eat-leaf world out there.
‘The Power of the Dog’ is an unconventional Western psychological drama, directed by Jane Campion and based on the 1967 novel of the same name by Thomas Savage.
That’s right – the time has arrived for us to part ways until January. This list, our final of the year, covers the best documentaries released during 2021.
I wouldn’t go so far as to say that the past year has been entertaining, but we sure did get a hell of a lot of entertainment to distract ourselves with.
HBO’s ‘Succession’ is at the top of all the television shows with five nominations, while Apple’s ‘Ted Lasso’ and ‘The Morning Show’ didn’t do too badly with four nods each.
When we first heard about ‘Don’t Look Up’, featuring a laundry list of Hollywood heavyweights, we had high hopes.
Time to get your perusal on. Spoiler alert – there’s actually a fourth trailer in this one but let’s not get ahead of ourselves.
The ‘Secrets of Playboy’ docuseries is revealing the darker side behind Hugh Hefner and life inside the Playboy Mansion.