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Unhinged

1 MEETING ‘THE MAN’

Christina Newland: When we first see a troubled-looking Russell Crowe, known simply as ‘The Man’, sitting in his car outside someone’s house in the pouring rain, it’s difficult to imagine the terror to come. Armed with a claw hammer and some lighter fluid, Crowe jumps out of his car and goes on a murder spree, setting the house alight in a final flourish of pure, hulking malice.

Derrick Borte: I wanted to keep the camera in the truck, because for someone to get to the point of doing

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The Suicide Squad (Empire, December) looks very male and very white. It will be interesting to give it the once-over with the Bechdel-Wallace test and view the film through the lens of diversity. ANN, NUGENT, TAS From what we could see, the Squad

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