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    Apr 08, 2024 2 minutes

    SATURDAY APRIL 13

    CITY OF LIES

    Hip-hop whodunnit

    Eden, 8.30pm

    Convoluted cop corruption drama based on claims that members of the LAPD were involved in the killing of the rapper Christopher “Notorious B.I.G.” Wallace, six months after the murder of rival Tupac Shakur. Johnny Depp plays a detective working on the unsolved murder. (2018). ★★☆

    SHAYDA

    Iran, so far away

    Rialto, 8.30pm

    The debut of Australian filmmaker Noora Niasari based on heris a hard-hitting story of a young Iranian mother living with her daughter in a Melbourne women’s shelter as she tries to escape an abusive husband and deal with the cultural expectations of her own community. (2023)

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