During lockdown,the Australian actor watched so much television,he realised he wanted to be back on the small screen.
The great Christmas homecoming has delivered a bumper crop of big names to town this week,while some of the locals are splashing out on decorations.
Director Thomas M. Wright’s dark drama,The Stranger,was the third most-watched film on the streaming service globally last week.
The Stranger is a remarkable achievement,compassionate and thoughtful,a long way from the exploitative film that Daniel Morcombe’s family feared.
Production designers create the magic on screen we rarely notice.
He’s amputated legs and pulled bodies out of cars,but the Australian actor had to take a deep breath - literally - in Netflix’s six-part series about the trapped boys.
Colin Farrell,Viggo Mortensen and Joel Edgerton star in Ron Howard’s recreation of the incredible effort to save 12 Thai boys and their football coach in 2018.
Filmmaker Joel Edgerton is among the producers of the adaptation of the novel,which has sold 650,000 copies in Australia.
This isn’t a show to binge. Many scenes are confronting and emotionally overwhelming,and so they should be.
It was an award-winning TV sensation in the noughties,saw Deborah Mailman in a breakout role and launched Samuel Johnson’s career. Now The Secret Life of Us is back.
By its closing frames you’re not quite the same person you were when you started watching.