David Michael Brown

David Michael Brown is a freelance journalist and former Senior Editor at Empire Magazine Australasia

BEAN CAUGHT STEALING

Gangster drama This City is Ours resembles a scouser Sopranos

Sean Bean is an underworld family patriarch in a new series set on the mean streets of Liverpool.

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WELCOME TO DIDDLY SQUAT

Clarkson’s Farm’s new season sees its namesake try to prove himself – and fail abysmally

Season four is well worth another visit – you might even get to stay for a pint.

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DYSTOPIAN VISIONS

If you’re into The Last of Us, you’ll love these other post-apocalyptic shows

As The Last of Us approaches its S2 finale, here are other terrifying visions to add to your watchlist.

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WALK ON THE WILD SIDE

The Walking Dead look to escape from New York in season 2 of Dead City

This year’s other dead reckoning is the return of the Big Apple’s most rotten inhabitants.

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It's a sin

The bloody twists and fluidity of Ryan Coogler’s genre mash Sinners

An audacious, ultra-violent, foot-tapping, high-kicking historical horror with two teeth in its neck and a twist in its tail.

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LAND OF MOB AND GLORY

Tom Hardy steals the show in MobLand, a thrilling new UK gangster series

Tom Hardy, Helen Mirren and Pierce Brosnan star in a new British gangster series from Guy Ritchie.

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LAND OF MOB AND GLORY

Tom Hardy steals the show in thrilling UK gangster series MobLand

Tom Hardy, Helen Mirren and Pierce Brosnan star in a new British gangster series from Guy Ritchie.

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SNOW PROBLEMO

Travis Fimmel impresses on both sides of the camera in Black Snow’s new season

Show’s lead is a formidable presence in equally-as-enthralling sophomore investigation.

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For those about to rock

Best big screen biopics: chimps, bricks, kitchen sinks, puppets and more

CGI monkeys, LEGO bricks, demonic French puppets, gritty kitchen sinks… For those about to rock, they made a film about you!

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SHELL BE RIGHT

You know? Definitely NOT for kids! A chat with Memoir of a Snail’s filmmaker

Hoarding, feeder relationships and obesity, conversion therapy, dementia, anxiety and key parties – not one for the whole fam.

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IT'S BUSINESS TIME

Defiantly Aussie, the newest version of The Office is worth clocking in for

An all-too-relatable awkward workplace comedy classic gets a more local spin – and some Kiwi faces.

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IT'S BUSINESS TIME

The defiantly Aussie version of The Office is worth clocking in for

An all-too-relatable awkward workplace comedy classic gets a more local spin.

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It Began In Afri-car car car

The Grand Tour: One for the Road puts pedal to the metal, one last time

Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May get behind the wheel for a final hoon together.

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WINNER WINNER CHICKEN DINNER

Awkwafina and John Cena strike action-comedy riches in JACKPOT!

Paul Feig’s new action comedy with a preposterous central premise proves a winner.

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WAXING OFF SCREEN

Cobra Kai’s final season kicks off (and then kicks and punches and kicks some more)

This is the beginning of the end for the unlikely modern spinoff and sequel to a trio of 80s karate films.

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MOVIE REVIEW

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is huge of heart, with bravura action

A worthy, if overlong, successor to one of the finest trilogies in modern blockbuster storytelling.

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MY OTHER TRACTOR'S A LAMBO

Clarkson’s Farm proves a divisive figure has now well and truly turned farmer

With the camera following his every move, it’s a surprise to see Clarkson show a human side.

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OH RICKY YOU'RE SO FINE

There’s something about Ricky (Stanicky), and not just its scandalous moments of mirth

A return to the ribald comedy that Peter Farrelly (along with brother Bobby) made his name with.

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MOVIE REVIEW

The Exorcist: Believer is sacrilegious to the original

The first of a proposed trilogy, it will be hard to keep faith beyond this lacklustre entry.

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MOVIE REVIEW

Totally Killer takes laughs as seriously as its gore-soaked chills

A hugely entertaining stab at that difficult-to-nail(gun) sub-genre, the horror comedy.

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REVIEW

Too much human stuff, not enough big shark action—Meg 2: The Trench treads water

We have no idea why British indie auteur Ben Wheatley was keen to helm this soggy chum-fest.

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