At the Movies for Wednesday, 25 August 2021
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Dan Slevin watches three recent movies that have arrived online as well as an Australian comedy series that’s now on Netflix. He reviews the Gerard Butler disaster movie GREENLAND; THE TOMORROW WAR, a science-fiction film starring Chris Pratt as a former Green Beret sent 30 years into the future to fight off an alien invasion; the documentary MAX RICHTER’S SLEEP about the composer’s eight and a half hour ‘lullaby’; and the Australian satire UTOPIA about the fictional federal agency the Nation Building Authority.
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