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The Assistant
An unseen entertainment mogul haunts Kitty Green’s flawless thriller ‘The Assistant’, a hawkeyed probe into systemic abuses of power, set before the era of #MeToo. Harvey Weinstein is the obvious inspiration for the bigwig, and we get sufficient clues: a New York-based movie production house, a gruff, eerily familiar voice off-camera, the havoc he leaves in his wake. Where to stream it: iTunes/ Apple TV, Amazon, Sky Store, Virgin, Google Play, Microsoft, Curzon Home Cinema, BFI Player
Ema
Clad in a tracksuit, with a shock of peroxided hair and a tonne of killer moves, twenty something dancer Ema (Mariana di Girolamo) explodes off the screen like a Roman candle in Pablo Larraín’s exhilarating, daring and deeply human drama. It's the exuberant yin to the stately yang of Jackie Kennedy biopic ‘Jackie’, Larrain’s last film, and it’s full of the pheromones of sexual discovery and the piss and vinegar of toxic relationships. Where to stream it: Mubi
Moffie
A viciously homophobic South African military training camp in 1981 is no place to be considering and exploring your sexuality like any teen might – but that’s exactly where 18-year-old Nicholas (Kai Luke Brummer) finds himself for the majority of ‘Moffie’. Writer-director Oliver Hermanus gives us an atmospheric and extremely tense war film that features little actual war – although there’s plenty of threat and conflict to go around. Where to stream it: Curzon Home Cinema
Calm With Horses
There’s a sense of claustrophobia in both small towns and criminal gangs, the product of closed-in horizons and limited ways out. That’s the trap in which Douglas ‘Arm’ Armstrong (‘Lady Macbeth’ star Cosmo Jarvis) finds himself in this surprising and often inspired Irish crime drama. Where to stream it: Head to the official site for all the info
