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© Netflix Just three months after one Antipodean director examined the exploitation of an American icon, another one has done something similar. Hot on the heels of Baz Luhrmann's phenomenally successful ' Elvis ' - $284 million received at the box office and counting - Andrew Dominik has a new movie that has landed on Netflix after a brief appearance at the Venice Film Festival. 'Elvis' was a vibrant, highly stylised account of how the singer was ruthlessly exploited for financial gain by the entertainment industry - particularly Colonel Tom Parker. © Netflix Andrew Dominick's 'Blonde' is a vibrant, highly stylised account of how Norma Jeane Mortenson (AKA Marilyn Monroe) was ruthlessly sexually and financially exploited by several men, particularly in the Hollywood studio system. The director's adaptation of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize nominated novel by Joyce Carol Oates is a gruelling experience. Cuban actress Ana de Armas steps into the role of Mari

@BBC1 It would be very easy to write a sarcy review of BBC1's three part thriller 'Crossfire'. Indeed, it is very tempting. But let's give it a fair wind and try and consider the merits of its plot. Essentially a vehicle for Keeley Hawes, it is the story of three English couples - some of them with kids - holidaying together in a resort on the Canary Islands. @BBC1 Hawes' character Jo is a former police officer who now works part-time as a department store security consultant. She is unhappily married with kids to Lee Ingleby's Jason and is teetering on the brink of an affair. Holidaying with them is Jason's chum from his school days, Vikash Bhai's Chinar and his wife, Aneika Rose's Abhi. Daniel Ryan's nice guy Ben and his GP wife, Josette Simon's Miriam are there too along with Shalisha James-Davis' Amara - Jo's adult daughter from a previous relationship with Ariyon Bakare's Paul. @BBC1 On their first night at the resort, Jason

©Searchlight Pictures We've come to expect note perfect performances from Saoirse Ronan in movie dramas over the years. But how does she fare in out and out comedy? So far Ronan has proven she can generate laughs in Greta Gerwig's superb coming of age drama ' Lady Bird '. But her appearances in Wes Anderson's ' Grand Budapest Hotel ' and ' The French Dispatch ' have been a case of a good actress playing it pretty straight in minor roles in two well judged, quirky comedies. ©Searchlight Pictures Ronan, though, finally gets to test her comedy acting chops In Tom George's spoof 'See How They Run'. Working from a Mark Chappell screenplay, it is an Agatha Christie parody fashioned around the celebrated author's celebrated hit play 'The Mousetrap' in London's West End. The longest running play in the world, 'The Mousetrap' has been running continuously since 1952 - bar a 14 month interruption during the 2020 and 2021 COV

©Warner Bros You'd have to have been living on Mars these past few months to have heard nothing about 'Don't Worry Darling'. Olivia Wilde's follow up to ' Booksmart ' has been the endless source of tabloid gossip. Over the past few months in the build-up to its release, Harry Styles fans have been on social media talking up his chances of bagging an Oscar nomination for Wilde's film. The  director's romantic relationship with the One Direction star  became the source of fevered speculation about it irritating other members of the cast. ©Warner Bros In April, Wilde also had the displeasure of being  served child custody papers on behalf of her former partner Jason Sudeikis during an appearance at Comic Con to discuss the film. By the time the movie received its premiere at the Venice Film Festival, there was a definite sense that Wilde's movie was on the ropes. Rumours that she had a major falling out on set with her leading lady were ramped up c