But the performances are winning and the writing rings with authenticity, warmth and empathy. Our four leads are strangers-turned-pals thanks to the vagaries of the dormitory allocation system, and they’re familiar types: the nerd from a humble background the pretty blonde snob the sporty kid the immigrant daughter whose parents expect her to become a doctor. Basically, this is parties, blackouts, bad sex (and good), but through female eyes. A lot of the situations and settings will be familiar to anyone who’s ever seen an Animal House or American Pie or Bad Neighbours, but the delivery is markedly different. Unless you are fundamentally set against campus comedies, there’s a lot to like in The Sex Lives of College Girls. Our top recommendation on Binge is The Sex Lives of College Girls which gets ★★★★. BingeĬlockwise, from main: The Sex Lives of College Girls, Thalissa Teixeira in Ragdoll and the women of Sex in the City reunite in And Just Like That.

Winner of multiple awards at this year’s Venice Film Festival, it’s available from December 15. Director Paolo Sorrentino’s previous work includes The Young Pope, The New Pope, Loro and Oscar winner The Great Beauty, and this has been described as his “most personal film yet”. The Hand of God is a story of family secrets, sport, love and loss in Naples in the 1980s.

This live-action remake stars John Cho and Mustafa Shakir as bounty hunters shuttling around the solar system listening to old jazz and western LPs in their beat-up spaceship when they’re not engaged in bloody attempts to apprehend fugitives. Cowboy Bebop is a stunning series that’s also deeply faithful to the gritty noir spirit of the original space-western anime. The six-part series from Train to Busan director Yeon Sang-ho is a compelling mix of police procedural, violent horror and shrewd social commentary. All the while, a cult named The New Truth is rapidly gaining followers. Giant demonic creatures from hell are collecting the souls of sinners in modern-day Seoul. If you want the next gory Korean thriller. Beautifully shot in New Zealand, this is a chamber piece on a grand scale. The two-hour film looks a bit like Brokeback Mountain and there is a definite homoerotic subtext, but Campion makes it very much her own - a long, dark, mysterious meditation on the human condition. Her effeminate son (Australia’s Kodi Smit-McPhee) brings out the worst in the very mixed-up cowboys. Cumberbatch plays the nastier of two successful ranching brothers the other (Jesse Plemons) marries a widow (Dunst), which mightily upsets the family balance. What’s not to love? It’s even got a piano.

Benedict Cumberbatch and Kirsten Dunst inhabit the wild west of Montana in 1925, in a new film from Oscar-winning director Jane Campion.

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