Nikki Sixx (Douglas Booth), Vince Neil (Daniel Webber), Mick Mars (Iwan Rheon), and Tommy Lee (Machine Gun Kelly) are Mötley Crüe in the Netflix biopic The Dirt. Photo / Supplied.
Nikki Sixx (Douglas Booth), Vince Neil (Daniel Webber), Mick Mars (Iwan Rheon), and Tommy Lee (Machine Gun Kelly) are Mötley Crüe in the Netflix biopic The Dirt. Photo / Supplied.
THE DIRT (Netflix)
Mötley Crüe's long-awaited film biopic The Dirt has finally arrived on Netflix after being stuck in development hell for more than a decade.
Based on the band's 2001 best-selling memoir, The Dirt details their meteoric rise from the Sunset Strip to global superstardom and the chaotic highs andlows that defined their career.
Director Jeff Tremaine (Jackass co-creator) shows us how Nikki Sixx (Douglas Booth), Mick Mars (Iwan Rheon), Tommy Lee (Machine Gun Kelly), and Vince Neil (Daniel Webber) combined to seduce the MTV generation and become one of the biggest bands in the world.
The film can't help but glamorise their infamous sex and drugs lifestyle while veering clear of some of the books most controversial tales, which cemented their status as notorious rock 'n roll outlaws.
In his most sensitive show yet, Gervais plays Tony, whose perfect world is ruined by the death of his beloved wife Lisa.
Miserable and on the brink of suicide, he drags down those closest to him but underneath his bitterness and desperate sadness remains the heart of a good man.
Kerry Godliman co-stars as Tony's wife Lisa, Tom Basden plays brother-in-law Matt, David Bradley is Tony's dad, and Ashley Jensen features as Emma, his father's nurse.
Gervais' dark wit remains strong but there's a compassion and humanity in After Life that will surprise many.
Pamela Adlon's comedy Better Things is back for a third season on Lightbox. Photo / Supplied.
BETTER THINGS (Lightbox)
If you like your laughs more light and breezy, Better Things has hit its stride with the third season now on Lightbox.
Pamela Adlon's comedy picks up with divorced mum Sam Fox still confronting life's mundaneness, while juggling her Los Angeles acting career, raising three daughters, and taking care of her testing English expat mother.
For the uninitiated, Better Things deals with relatable daily dramas within most family homes – school drop-offs and arguments with difficult teenagers – but takes those familiar themes in fresh directions.
This season sees the regular cast comfortable in their characters while several new faces are introduced including Sharon Stone, Matthew Broderick, Doug Jones, and Glynn Turman.
Ruth Wilson plays her real life grandmother Alison in the intriguing three-part drama Mrs Wilson. Photo / Supplied.
Mrs Wilson takes "based on a true story" to new extremes with Ruth Wilson (Luther, The Affair) starring as her real life grandmother Alison in an intriguing three-part BBC drama.
Alison's husband Alexander Wilson (Iain Glen) is a novelist and spy who she met while working at MI6 during the war. However, his death more than 20 years later leads her to uncovering the shocking truth — she was not the only Mrs Wilson and their two sons not his only children.
With her world thrown upside down, Alison works to uncover whether "Alec" was a ratbag serial bigamist or if his multiple lives were part of his undercover work.
