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Hollywood has depicted characters busting their husbands, wives and partners in acts of bedroom infidelity so many times audiences may be forgiven for reminding themselves that they ought to care.

There are few words reviewers can apply to thrillers and suspense films that are more clichéd than “Hitchcockian.

In the early decades of the 20th century, audiences arrived at cinemas prior to feature films to watch pre-show content such as newsreels and serials.

Now that the Emmy Awards have wrapped up it’s only a few weeks from the start of the American 2014-15 major ratings period.

From the moment we arrived at Chapel off Chapel, we knew we’d made the right choice.

To the hundreds (maybe thousands) of Offspring fans who took to social media overnight demanding that Ten order another season of their favourite Australian drama: do you really want to see Nina get screwed over again? Do you really want to see Billie and Mick break up again? Do you want to see Geraldine and Darcy in another feud over 40-year-old indiscretions? Do you really want there to be another medical crisis involving one of the main characters’ “offspring”? Because that’s basically what series creator Debra Oswald would have to do to justify another season.

Combine the words “drug users” and “films” and one imagines a blur of downers and unpleasantries: grotty apartments, wan-looking addicts with beanies and scabs, vomit-lined gutters, bullet-ridden men in singlets — that sort of thing.

Ugly Mugs, for those who aren’t familiar, is the name of a pamphlet that sex workers distribute to identify and warn each other about the violent, dangerous or abusive clients they encounter while working.

Hollywood is often thought of as the vanguard of progressive America, a hotspot of liberal values and cultural reformism forever tapped into the zeitgeist.

If Australian television has left you disappointed this year and never really set your heart ablaze, there are still a few chances for you to change your mind.

The Face of Love is the second film this year to explore the idea of doppelgangers by casting the same actor in two different roles.

As Netflix was staking out a place for itself as a content producer in 2013, it had several high profile original series, including the return season of cult comedy hit Arrested Development and the Kevin Spacey-led political thriller House of Cards.