MICRO MOVIE BINGE

HUGHLY, DULY: In honour of Hugh Jackman’s slashing, near-career-best performance in the new drama Bad Education (now showing on Foxtel), here’s where you can swiftly stream the versatile Aussie star at his very best ...

PRISONERS (2013) Foxtel, Netflix After the mysterious abduction of two children, police in a small town are forced to let their only suspect walk. An anguished parent (Jackman) takes matters into his own hands and conducts a punishing private interrogation of the suspect. A complex, utterly absorbing crime drama in the same league as Clint Eastwood’s 2003 masterpiece Mystic River. Co-stars Jake Gyllenhaal.

THE GREATEST SHOWMAN (2017) Foxtel Now

If you are not ready to enter a world where conversations can suddenly become rousing singalongs, and pleasant strolls can suddenly become spectacular production numbers, consider yourself warned. Jackman embraces the lead role of famous 1800s showbiz impresario P.T. Barnum with such an enthusiastic bear hug that resistance is pretty much not an option. Co-stars Zac Efron, Michelle Williams.

AUSTRALIA (2008) Amazon & To Rent

Director Baz Luhrmann’s frenetic mash-up of styles can go from something-foreveryone to too-much-for-anyone in the blink of an eye.

While this is a sweeping romantic epic, it is also a screwball comedy, an outback western and a military action flick. Nicole Kidman plays a prissy aristocrat who falls for Jackman’s maverick drover during a marathon cattle drive to Darwin in the late 1930s.

NEEDING MORE? LES MISERABLES (Amazon & To Rent); THE FRONT RUNNER (Foxtel); LOGAN (To Rent Only).