Sydney Multicultural Film Awards

It isn’t subtle, it isn’t sensible and it certainly isn’t for everyone — but Eli Roth’s gloriously unhinged horror ride knows exactly what it wants to be. There are two ways to approach Ice Cream Man.

Editorial credit: Opasbbb / Shutterstock.com A street-level reset gives Tom Holland’s Peter Parker his most personal — and potentially his best — adventure yet. After Spider-Man: No Way Home went full multiverse fireworks factory, you could forgive Marvel for thinking the only way forward was bigger, louder and considerably more complicated.

Rating 4/5 Stars “Hi, I’m Johnny Knoxville, and welcome to Jackass.” Few introductions in pop culture history carry the same warning label. Those eight words are not just a greeting — they are a promise.

Editorial credit: ROBERTCOOPER / Shutterstock.com Hollywood has always understood the power of memories. A familiar character, a recognisable theme song, or a beloved franchise returning to the big screen can instantly transport audiences back to another time.

Editorial credit: Opasbbb / Shutterstock.com The Despicable Me franchise has always thrived on organised chaos: banana-fuelled slapstick, elastic logic, and the comforting sense that nothing in this universe is ever meant to behave itself for too long. Minions & Monsters initially appears to be more of the same.

Editorial credit: Real_Java / Shutterstock.com There is a flicker of something monumental inside Disclosure Day — the sense that, at any second, Steven Spielberg is about to tilt the world on its axis and reveal something extraordinary. You can feel it being assembled: the mystery tightening, the factions circling, the stakes quietly rising.

Editorial credit: VictorHugoGaribay / Shutterstock.com Walk into any cinema today, and you’ll notice a familiar pattern. The posters lining the foyer aren’t introducing audiences to entirely new worlds—they’re inviting them back to ones they already know.