The latest in a spate of Australian genre flicks to hit cinemas is this paranormal thriller from writer John Soto.

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How do you reconcile your homosexuality with a religion that condemns it?

Death threats, grenade attacks, government surveillance and the occupation of his offices by enraged feminists were all par for the course for Barney Rosset, the controversial publisher of Grove Press and the Evergreen Review.

It is one of fashion’s greatest ironies that its star performer, the embodiment of chic, was born a dirt-poor peasant in the late 1800s. Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel lived to influence an entire industry at a time when men ruled the world, and it is during this time, hence the title, that director Anne Fontaine keeps her focus.

Disgrace is a tough, uncompromising drama that centres on David Lurie, an emotionally chilly professor of poetry who spends his well-dressed days with an air of contemptuous ennui yet inside beats the troubled heart of a predator and a racist.

Two Lovers marks the swansong for Phoenix who’s dropped acting for hip-hop, as you do. He is Leonard, a clinical case that we meet seconds before he attempts suicide.

Devotees of HBO’s Oz will be familiar with meaningful nods and grunts that pass for dialogue in prison drama. Similarly The Escapist keeps its focus on internal relationships that drive men to prevailing opportunity.

Yet another formerly successful franchise flicks the reset switch in McG’s lavish vision. The boy John Connor has grown up to live the dream, well, nightmare of his own future as resistance leader and humanity’s salvation.

If Juno and Garden State ever shacked up and had a child, it would be Adventureland – a quirky, comic son with the heart of Woody Allen.