Steve Coogan (centre) stars in Armando Iannucci’s adaptation of Dr. Strangelove.

Masterly chaos as Steve Coogan stars in stage reboot of Dr Strangelove

Armando Iannucci’s timely West End adaptation of the Stanley Kubrick classic can now be seen in cinemas.

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Blak Woman’s Healing. Yirramboi.

Your guide to fab (and budget-friendly) events in Melbourne in May

From dance and singing to spectacular exhibitions,these free events promise loads of fun.

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Jon Bernthal and Ben Affleck in The Accountant 2.

Action,intrigue,line-dancing – The Accountant 2 has it all

In a sequel to the 2016 film,Ben Affleck’s autistic savant accountant is once again called upon to perform complex mathematical calculations and dish out extreme violence.

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Meghann Fahy in Drop.

Drop:As suspenseful as anything I’ve experienced in a cinema for ages

Meghann Fahy plays a woman having the worst night of her life as a series of mysterious threatening phone messages wrecks a first date.

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Michael B. Jordan and Michael B. Jordan (playing identical twins) and Omar Benson Miller in Sinners.

Historic bluesfest or semi-comic bloodfest? Sinners is both

Marvel director Ryan Coogler goes Southern Gothic in this tale of identical twins and an Irish vampire with a taste for the blues.

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Callina Liang in Bad Genius.

Bad Genius is smart but fails to fulfil its early promise

This Hollywood remake of a 2017 Thai hit tracks a brainy high-schooler who has to break the rules to achieve her dreams.

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Rami Malek plays a nerdy CIA analyst out for revenge in The Amateur.

Rami Malek is no action hero – and that’s the point in The Amateur

When a nerdy CIA cryptographer,played by Malek,determines to avenge the death of his wife,ingenuity is his most potent weapon.

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Jack Quaid in Novocaine No Pain.

Where rom-com meets torture porn,this movie is a shocker

Jack Quaid is likeable as the hero who can feel no pain,but over-the-top violence ruins Novocaine No Pain.

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This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Jason Momoa in a scene from “A Minecraft Movie.” (Warner Bros. Pictures via AP)

The building blocks are there,but this movie cash-in is chaotic and uneven

A Minecraft Movie,a live-action adaptation of the biggest video game ever,grafts a stock fantasy quest onto a landscape where plot was never the point.

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Jason Statham just wants to leave his past behind in A Working Man - sadly it catches up with him.

Jason Statham past his peak slaughtering unimpressive foes in ultraviolent action film

Co-written by Sylvester Stallone,A Working Man follows a familiar pattern reaching back to Stallone’s 1980s action hero heyday.

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