Follow up your viewing of the Kylie documentary with this 2-hour music special combining footage from the smash 2025 Tension World Tour, with a massive 66-dates, which includes stadium performances in cities like Mexico City, with exclusive behind-the-scenes documentary elements.

A thoroughly entertaining documentary on beloved actor and comedian Martin Short, focusing on his resilience during his 50-year career. Directed by Lawrence Kasdan, the film combines never-before-seen archival footage with star-studded interviews, highlighting how Short faces immense personal tragedy with persistent joy. It provides a retrospective of Short’s massive impact across television, film, and theatre, with his early sketch comedy days on SCTV and Saturday Night Live, film roles like Three Amigos! and Father of the Bride, and his recent work on the hit streaming series Only Murders in the Building. Short’s personal mantra is to operate “at the speed of joy”, which suffuses this wonderful presentation.

It’s not often celebrities will open up to their drug taking in the media unless they are caught out by accident. In this film quite a few are prepared to expose their experiences with LSD, good and bad. Carrie Fisher reveals all in her hilarious fashion. Hallucinations are brought to life with trippy special effects and animation and there are parodies of the “Just Say No” campaign. It explores the history and pop culture impact through to the therapeutic possibilities of psychedelics. Critics were not kind, but perhaps their opinion was clouded by too many bad trips. There is a comedic aspect to even the most serious subjects.

Adapted from Shelby Van Pelt’s bestselling novel, this heartwarming drama is one of the best on Netflix. It features the voice of Alfred Molina as Marcellus, the highly intelligent and cynical giant Pacific octopus. Sally Field is wonderful as grieving elderly widow Tova Sullivan who works the night shift cleaning the aquarium in the coastal town of Sowell Bay, who forms an unexpected close bond with Marcellus, a captive octopus who quietly observes the humans around him. At the heart of the story is a decades-old mystery pertaining to Tova, which Marcellus intends to solve. Superb viewing.

The presence of Owen Wilson led to the viewing of this road-trip comedy film where fraternal twin brothers Kyle and Peter discover that their mother lied to them about their father’s death, and she confesses that due to the wild nature of the 1970s, she isn’t entirely sure who their biological father is. This prompts them to embark on a cross-country journey to find their real dad. Kyle is a laid-back, wealthy model; Peter is an uptight, divorced proctologist, and this alone leads to hilarious comedic situations along the way. The film wasn’t well received by critics, but viewers appear to have embraced it in spite of this. Cameos from J.K. Simmons and Christopher Walken are a highlight.

The ensemble cast is enough to prompt a viewing of this romantic comedy, but alas it does fall short with a cliché-ridden script and rather stilted performances. It is inspired by the French film I Am Not an Easy Man and may have worked better in that language. It’s a satirical look at the gender-swap scenario where a chauvinistic marketing executive hits his head and wakes up in an alternate reality where women hold all the societal power and men are treated as the “inferior” sex. This could be offensive to some, but it is comedic and not to be taken seriously.

Romantic comedies can be fraught with cliches and usually end up like any other soap opera, but here we have a refreshing departure from that, which could be due to Ryan Gosling heading up the talented ensemble cast. Steve Carell stars as Cal Weaver, a middle-aged man whose seemingly perfect life unravels when his high school sweetheart now wife, Emily, confesses to an affair and asks for a divorce. Cal is taken under the wing of Jacob, a suave, smooth-talking serial bachelor, who gives Cal a complete physical and psychological makeover, teaching him how to dress, drink, and confidently pick up women. Hilarious situations ensue leading to a chaotic confrontation around the backyard barbecue.

Relationships with family and friends were often a casualty of the boardgames that were supposed to be a bonding experience. In this German comedy, Pia takes her new young man to meet her friends for the first time at their regular game night, putting him under pressure to make a good impression. But then suddenly, her ex shows up as well. And it’s all downhill from there, ending up in the tiger’s compound at the local zoo. It’s hysterical at what revelations are exposed in the heat of the moment as the game unfolds.

With the approach of the FIFA World Cup there are a number of soccer related documentaries available on Netflix. This is one of the best. It revisits the French national team’s controversial 2010 World Cup campaign in South Africa, detailing how internal disputes, player strikes, and the infamous training bus boycott sparked global headlines and national outrage, exposing the systemic breakdown between the players, manager Raymond Domenech, and the French football establishment.

Vinnie Jones was much-loved in our household as he was once a member of our favourite team, Wimbledon. There was great excitement when he began to appear in Guy Ritchie films after his football career. This is an unfiltered story of Vinnie Jones’ chaotic life, tracking his journey from a construction worker to an FA Cup-winning midfielder for Wimbledon FC’s infamous “Crazy Gang”. It explores his entry into acting, where he became Hollywood’s go-to tough guy starring in iconic films like Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch. A must-see for all Vinnie fans.