Colin from Accounts
Binge
If you're a fan of awkward comedy, this is the show for you. Colin from Accounts is the new romantic comedy series written by real-life partners and stars Harriet Dyer and Patrick Brammall.
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They play Ashley and Gordon, who are thrown into each other's orbits after Gordon hits a dog with his car as Ashley is crossing the street.
Rom-coms can be pretty dull, but this one is full of spark and cheeky laughs.
Dyer (of Love Child and The InBetween) and Brammall (Offspring, Glitch) are brilliant and have immensely watchable chemistry.
The show takes a jab at their age difference, crazy millennials, craft beer culture and more.
There's a delightful array of wacky support characters to fill out the cast, including Gordon's hype-man best bud Brett, his no-nonsense business partner Chi, Ashley's insufferable mother, and her good-time best friend Meggles.
Colin from Accounts is charming, addictive and a great addition to the Australian TV landscape.
You'll want to binge the whole thing in a night.
Willow
Disney+
1980s fantasy movie Willow gets the series reboot treatment with this new adventure.
Warwick Davis' title character is back, but we don't meet him until the end of the first episode. Instead, there's a whole new batch of characters to meet.
There's twins Kit (Ruby Cruz, Mare of Easttown) and Airk (Dempsey Bryk) - children of Madmartigan and Sorsha from the film - as well as Kit's best friend Jade (Erin Kellyman), arranged fiance Graydon (Tony Revolori), Airk's kitchen-maid girlfriend Dove (Ellie Bamber) and prisoner Thraxus Boorman (Amar Chadha-Patel).
The show seems to improve on something the film lacked - fleshing out its characters.
With more time to spend with each new face, audiences care more about what happens to them.
A worthy follow-up to the film.
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Netflix
This is not your nan's period piece.
Lady Chatterley's Lover, based on DH Lawrence's controversial (by 1920s standards) book, is a pensive and moving post-WWI period love story, with a lot of full-on sex scenes.
Starring Emma Corrin (The Crown) as the titular Lady Chatterley and Jack O'Connell (Unbroken) as her lover Oliver Mellors, the film explores isolation and loneliness, classism and a yearning for sexual pleasure - but in a romantic way, not a skeevy way.
Corrin and O'Connell are both brilliant, and their chemistry is palpable.
In a film so filled with sex scenes, it's quite a feat that the story and the performances are really what sticks with the viewer.
A word of warning though - don't watch this with anyone that you wouldn't comfortably watch Game of Thrones' sex scenes with.
Christmas Ransom
Stan
If you've watched every other Christmas movie there is and you're still hungry for more, maybe then you can watch Christmas Ransom.
The new Aussie film tries desperately to capture the charm of Home Alone with the hijinks of Die Hard for a family audience, but just ends up with a cringe-worthy mess.
As much as stars Matt Okine and Miranda Tapsell are very enjoyable people to watch, they can't come close to saving this fiasco, which sees a pair of crooks take the staff at a toy shop hostage.
It's pretty bad.