My Octopus Teacher says the New Zealand movie
Whale Rider helped shape its content.
Crew filming The Octopus Teacher
Photo: Faine Loubser
In her new show
Douglas, the Australian stand-up comedian Hannah Gadsby takes aim at the patriarchy, anti-vaxxers and all those who would define others.
Hannah Gadsby
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Every few weeks a clip from
Jojo Rabbit does the rounds on Twitter. If you have spent any amount of time on the platform, then you probably already know which clip I’m talking about. It’s taken from the final moments of the film, a shot-reverse-shot of former Nazi-youth member, Jojo (
Roman Griffin Davis), and the Jewish girl who was hiding in his house, Elsa (
Thomasin Mackenzie), dancing in the streets of their freshly liberated German town. Sound-tracking this scene is
One of the year’s most anticipated films,
James Bond: No Time To Die, has been delayed again and now won’t be released until April 2021.
Despite film releases being delayed and cinemas struggling, an opening appeared for streaming sites such as Netflix, Amazon Prime and Disney+ to step into the gap.
Here’s our pick of the best films released in 2020.
I’m Your Woman
In this “atmospheric” underworld drama, set in the early 1970s, Rachel Brosnahan (best known for TV’s
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) plays Jean – the pampered wife of a mobster (Bill Heck), said Kevin Maher in The Times. In the opening scene, he hands her a crying baby, saying he has “sourced” it elsewhere. He then disappears, and Jean is told that for her own safety, she must go on the run with his former associate Cal (Arinzé Kene) – a quietly competent African American – for protection. In her old life, everything from cooking to killing was done for Jean; now she must live by her wits, wh