NOT another streaming Movie - Mother Mary

Mother Mary is a musical/psychological drama-thriller film written and directed by David Lowery. 

Starring Anne Hathaway & Michaela Coel, with the music was composed by Daniel Hart, with original songs provided by musicians Jack Antonoff and Charli XCX. FKA Twigs also provided an original song.

The soundtrack album Mother Mary: Greatest Hits was announced in March, whilst being released in April. It includes seven original songs, all performed by Hathaway. Alongside the announcement, the lead single Burial was released.

Hunter Schafer, Sian Clifford joined Hathaway & Cole, playing smaller roles. Whilst FKA Twigs also had a small role in the film.

Mother Mary follows a pop star whose reunion with her former costume designer forces her to confront her past.

The film has received mixed to positive reviews from critics and was a box-office disappointment, grossing only $3 million against its $20 million budget.

With names like Charli XCX, Anne Hathaway, Michaela Coel and FKA Twigs involved, this would be disappointing for A24. They are on such a roll with TV and film. With Margo's Got Money Troubles one of the most impressive TV series streaming right now.

I enjoyed this different look at fame and life in the spotlight. A massive star with wardrobe issues.

It was a little random at times, however this is my second Anne Hathaway film this weekend and I'm back in love with her performances. I did like her as Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises.

I read very little about this film, nor watched the trailer ahead of seeing a Sunday session of this film. I could almost tell part one through this has FKA Twigs name all over it.

I will pass this as I did feel in the middle it sort of lost it's way a bit.

2.5 Stars. Big TV finales this week and next week. Chat soon. Bye!

NOT another streaming Movie - The Devil Wears Prada 2

Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, & Stanley Tucci return to show that printed press isn't dead yet! The Devil Wears Prada 2, has been slaying in cinemas recently, with Lady Gaga x Docehii's hit Runway smashing the charts & streaming platforms.

Gag also stars in the hit film, which has received generally positive reviews from critics, whilst grossing $453 million against a $100 million production budget. This makes The Devil Wears Prada 2, the fifth highest-grossing film of 2026. Thus far! We are only halfway through May 2026 people!

Almost 20 years after making their iconic turn as Miranda, Andy, Emily and Nigel—Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci return to the fashionable streets of New York City and the sleek offices of Runway Magazine. Spoiler alert I never saw the original film.

Yes I a bad gay! A terrible gay some may say!

The film reunites the original main cast with director David Frankel and writer Aline Brosh McKenna, and introduces an all-new runway of characters including Kenneth Branagh, Simone Ashley, Justin Theroux, Lucy Liu, Aussie Patrick Brammall, Caleb Hearon, Helen J. Shen, Pauline Chalamet, B.J. Novak & Conrad Ricamora. 

Tracie Thoms and Tibor Feldman also reprise their roles as “Lily” and “Irv” from the first film. 

Set two decades after the events of the first film, it follows Andy Sachs (Hathaway) as she helps Miranda Priestly (Streep) navigate a new media landscape and corporate threats to the survival of Runway magazine. 

As media dies in 2026, this film takes aim at the dying art of journalism, with its impacts on the new media, along with fashion media!

It's all about the fashion scene in this film. The fashion, the gay anthems played through the film. This is clearly aimed at the gays and their allies lol. It is Eurovision weekend after all.

Even though I never say the OG Devil Wears Prada film, you can just slide into this easy, breezy, popcorn film.

Honestly the storyline is very easy to keep up with.

Hathaway excels in this film, while Streep is effortless.

I enjoyed every minute of this escapism from fuel crisis, wars, the rise of One Nation and the news cycle in general. Which in a way this film is telling you to care about.

Enjoy the fashion, enjoy the Gaga, enjoy the luxury. The Devil Wears Prada 2 is pure, simple fun.

3.5 Stars.

NOT another streaming Movie - Obsession

Obsession is the latest supernatural/horror film of 2026.

How ironic the week of the federal budget, we get yet (another) horror film.

In Obsession, we follow Bear (played by Michael Johnston), a music store employee who buys a supernatural toy and wishes for his childhood friend Nikki (Inde Navarrette) to fall in love with him.

Alongside Johnston & Navarrette, Cooper Tomlinson, Megan Lawless, and Andy Richter also star in this love story, turned into a nightmare! The film received critical acclaim, with praise directed towards Navarrette's performance. Currently on Rotten Tomatoes, the film is scoring in the high 90's! That's almost unheard of now, with the sheer volume of horror films landing in 2026.

I jumped multiple times. Shit got real about thirty or so minutes into the film. The film is close to tow hours but gets seriously messed up as the run time goes on.

The whole audience in the sold (peak) Friday evening session in, inner Sydney was laughing, yelling out and getting behind the film's leads.

This was a real experience. Honestly there were real moments were people yelled or laughed out loud.

Cinema was back baby. Sold out Devil Wears Prada 2, Michael and more. I got the last two tickets in the back row (similar to Mortal Kombat II last week) for this session.

It's rare now that these horror, mixed with a supernatural film, get such a good reaction.

I enjoyed this. Bring on the return of the cinema in 2026.

3.5 Stars.

Public Holiday Fest Streaming 26' - DMV - Season One/Series Finale

DMV followed the workers at the East Hollywood DMV. Collette, a driving instructor, tackles workplace problems, romance, and interpersonal connections with her coworkers. 

The show is a fictional account of the DMV, but makes the jokes that most people have when going to renew licenses and forms. Sadly for the cast and crew, back in March, the series was canceled after one season. With the series finale streaming yesterday on Binge. This is one of the only CBS series to air away from Paramount+. Oh well it didn't stream for long, just 20, twenty minute episodes.

Aussie Harriet Dyer and hunky Kiwi, Alex Tarrant, with Tim Meadows, Molly Kearney, Tony Cavalero, Gigi Zumbado, and Jessica Camacho.

With Dyer on board, what could go wrong you ask?

Well a lot. It just wasn't that funny. Don't expect another Colin From Accounts. They ain't one F bomb in this network series. Or rude sex joke. Most jokes just fell a little or lot flat!

In the last ever episode, the consultants choose in two days which DMV will close, for good. Kinda like the shows fate!

Noa passes his driver’s test and they throw a party after work and Collette finally kisses Noa. 

The DMV staff prepare for the worst and fix-up their résumés and we learn Vic never finished high school. Kinda not surprising though. Also a fall from grace after his efforts in HBO's hit, The Righteous Gemstones.

Colette realises there’s no chemistry with Noa after the bad kiss and Ceci helps her see how much she’s grown since starting to work at the DMV. 

Barb finds out Ray Henderson is embezzling money from the pensions. 

The consultants accidentally hit Barb with their car and decide to keep the branch open and shut down the North Hollywood branch. 

Ray gets fired and the new head of the DMV is Beau Young. Played by the lovely, Randall Park. So we may have got more Park if season two would have gone ahead. Oh well. Not to worry.

Abbott Elementary for me, is still the network gold comedy standard. This just wasn't it. Still, I am looking forward to Dyer's, Colin From Accounts apparently also streaming on Binge, soon.

Public Holiday Fest Streaming 26' - NCIS: Sydney - Season Three

NCIS: Sydney the Aussie spin-off of NCIS franchise. 

Starring Olivia Swann, Todd Lasance, Sean Sagar, Tuuli Narkle, Mavournee Hazel, Claude Jabbour & William McInnes.

Back in January, NCIS: Sydney was renewed for a fourth season.

The team is back for a bigger, bolder, and even more explosive third season, which streams locally on Paramount+.

After their croc-fuelled Top End adventure, the team are back in the glistening Harbour City, but something even more dangerous is coming back to bite them… their own pasts. Blue (Hazel) is hunted down by her so-called “family” who harbour a shocking ulterior motive; while DeShawn (Sagar) is forced to admit he concealed a crucial piece of evidence in a court-martial to protect someone very close. 

 JD (Lasance) must deal with the fallout from a Faustian pact to keep the team intact within the context of a crumbling relationship… while Evie (Narkle) tentatively embarks on a new one; and Doc Roy (William McInnes) must decide if he’s ready to let go. Against a backdrop of adrenaline pumping cases, our beloved team are put to the test like never before, involving an outback alien abduction, a nano-tech assassin, a true crime podcast cold case, a journey to Antarctica, a swashbuckling treasure hunt, and an international conspiracy with links to… Mackey (Swann). 

This season features special local guest stars including Doris Younane, Simone Kessell, Fayssal Bazzi, Stephen Peacocke, Lincoln Lewis, Anthony Hayes and more. Stephen Peacocke & Lincoln Lewis are everywhere!

Actually I wish Lincoln Lewis was in more places!

With a minor cliffhanger in the final scenes, we may be waiting longer, for a shorter fourth season.

Announced midseason. The fourth season's episode count will be halved back to ten episodes next season.

Likely to arrive in early 2027.

CBS has a solid line up in-coming next season. 

The Amazing Race—Renewed for a thirty-ninth season

Boston Blue—Renewed for a second season

CIA—Renewed for a second season

Elsbeth—Renewed for a fourth season

FBI—Renewed for a ninth season

Fire Country—Renewed for a fifth season (also getting shorter season, nest season)

Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage—Renewed for a third season

Ghosts—Renewed for a sixth season. No word on the Australian second season yet :(

Harlan Coben's Final Twist—Renewed for a second season

Y: Marshals—Renewed for a second season. More Yellowstone incoming.

Matlock—Renewed for a third season 

NCIS—Renewed for a twenty-fourth 

NCIS: Origins—Renewed for a third (also a shortened season)

NCIS: Sydney—Renewed for a fourth season 

Sheriff Country—Renewed for a second season 

Survivor—Renewed for a fifty-first and fifty-second season

Tracker—Renewed for a fourth season

Tomorrow, the axed CBS series, DMV, here we come. Till then. BYE!

Public Holiday Fest Streaming 26' - 9-1-1: Nashville - Season One

9-1-1: Nashville is the second spin-off of the 9-1-1 franchise, following 9-1-1: Lone Star, which concluded last February.

Back in March, the series was renewed for a second season. This follows the failure of Doctor Odyssey last season, being scrapped after one season.

That said, this soapy 9-1-1 spin-off, did give full midday movie vibes at times. Even with the addition of country music star, LeAnn Rimes as Dixie Bennings, Blue's mother and Don's ex-girlfriend, who is a singer.

So what's it all about?

As with 9-1-1, the series follows the personal and professional lives of first responders and 911 dispatchers. 

The series primarily follows the staff of Station 113 of the Nashville Fire Department and their families, including Captain Donald "Don" Hart (Chris O'Donnell), his wealthy wife Blythe (Jessica Capshaw), and Cammie Raleigh (Kimberly Williams-Paisley) a Nashville 911 dispatcher who is Blythe's sister-in-law.

Also starring Hailey Kilgore, Michael Provost, Juani Feliz, Hunter McVey, Gregory Alan Williams, MacKenzie Porter, plus Tim Matheson. Ryan Phillippe joined the cast as a series regular for the second season, likely to come later in 2026.

ABC (American Broadcasting Company) will announce their 2026-2027 schedule next week. With all series now being renewed. RJ Decker, the last to be renewed was officially given a second run yesterday.

Leading into the finale Intrusive Thoughts, Dixie (Rimes) gets advice from her grandmother and writes a diss-track about Blythe. 

The 113 responds to a woman choking on an engagement ring. On another call, the men who were dynamite fishing in a previous episode sabotage the break lines on a fork lift which starts crushing one of their coworkers. Roxie keeps sabotaging her meetings and dates with Elena. 

Dixie’s song comes between Blythe and Don’s marriage as she keeps making songs about an anonymous woman.

It was super trashy! The finale, sort of leaves on a cliffhanger/bitch fight. It felt like an old school Melrose Place cat fight. Honestly this wasn't the highest quality or engaging drama that previous 9-1-1: Lone Star gave us. 9-1-1 OG is bat shit crazy, it never had the heart Lone Star did, but Nashville, it's just kinda pure trashy soap.

Onto RJ Decker, it also feels a little AI from a source novel.

I am not sure how ABC will move forward for the next TV season. With smaller episode counts and less main characters on their ageing series likely. As long as the brilliant Abbott Elementary continues its quality, I will be happy.

NOT another streaming Movie - Mortal Kombat II

Mortal Kombat II is a the sequel to 2021's Mortal Kombat, the fourth instalment in the Mortal Kombat film series. 

Returning cast members Jessica McNamee, Josh Lawson, Ludi Lin, Mehcad Brooks, Lewis Tan, Damon Herriman (in a different role), Chin Han, Tadanobu Asano, Joe Taslim, and Hiroyuki Sanada, with Karl Urban, Adeline Rudolph, and Tati Gabrielle joining the sequel, filmed in QLD. 

In the sequel, martial arts actor Johnny Cage is recruited by the thunder god Raiden and Sonya Blade to join his fellow Earthrealm fighters in a tournament against the Outworld warriors and stop the tyrannical emperor Shao Kahn, with the help of Edenian princess Kitana.

Fan favourite champions, now joined by Johnny Cage himself, are pitted against one another in the ultimate, no-holds barred, gory battle to defeat the dark rule of Shao Kahn. There is blood, violence, with a sequel also set to be in the works.

The Boys, Karl Urban stars as Johnny Cage, taking a break from starring in the final season as Billy Butcher.

The cinema was sold out on a Friday screening on the video game sequel. The trailers also included a reboot of Street Fighter and a new live action He-Man film. Talk about my 80's, 90's childhood coming to a cinema near you.

I had, had a huge week. This was just what I needed. Some big, dumb action.

I honestly didn't hate this, but can only just pass it as some of the dialogue was not great.

2.5 Stars.