Searching for fresh inspiration, an artistically blocked painter, investigates the urban legend concerning the hook-handed murderer of the title that long prevailed among the once-deprived area’s residents (including Colman Domingo). What begins, under the direction of Nia DaCosta, who co-wrote the script with Jordan Peele and Win Rosenfeld, as an uneasy blend of slasher film and social commentary degenerates, by its conclusion, into a fantasy of racial revenge wholly at odds with Gospel values.

Koshary is the national dish of Egypt. This humble dish is made from inexpensive pantry staples but provides warm comfort that makes you crave for more!

Non-conformity and self-realisation are the main items on the agenda of the droll comic adventure Free Guy (20th Century). By John Mulderig.

Nearly everything about The Suicide Squad (Warner Bros), writer-director James Gunn’s DC Comics-based follow-up to 2016’s Suicide Squad, is intentionally over-the-top.

In 1916 Brazil, an intrepid British researcher (Emily Blunt) forms an unlikely alliance with a fast-talking Amazon River steamboat captain (Dwayne Johnson) and aided by her brother (Jack Whitehall), they set off in quest of a mystical tree the healing flowers of which she believes will revolutionize medicine. By John Mulderig/CNS.

There’s a strained tone to Space Jam: A New Legacy (Warner Bros), director Malcolm D Lee’s sequel to the 1996 sports comedy. LeBron James plays himself this time out, as Michael Jordan did a quarter of a century ago.

As an addition to the Marvel Comics cinematic universe, the origin story ‘Black Widow’ (Disney) provides the expected elements of large-scale special effects and intrepid derring-do.

‘Two Cultures, One Story’ is an Aboriginal Elder’s memoir bridges the cultural divide between black and white Australia, celebrating the talent and diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices through the publication of quality literature.

Nondenominational religious flourishes and an emphasis on the value of family offset occasionally intense showdowns and some unsavoury vocabulary in F9: The Fast Saga (Universal).

Applecross parishioner Giuseppe Cinanni was announced as one of 1190 Australians to receive a 2021 Queen’s Birthday Honours for Australia. He was honoured for his involvement in Catholic-based and community support initiatives, where he co-ordinated, volunteered, and organised various fundraising projects through collaboration with strong networks, which he built over the years. By Amanda Murthy.