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SPRINGSTEEN ON BROADWAY (15) (Netflix)
US rock legend Bruce Springsteen has been wowing fans for well over a year now with his Broadway residency, a series of intimate shows in which he’s combined some of his classic material with personal reminiscences.
“It loosely follows the arc of my life and my work,” he says. As of this Sunday, Netflix subscribers can get to see what all the fuss has been about.
THE SPY WHO DUMPED ME (15)
(Download now, DVD and Blu-ray from Boxing Day) TURNING 30 is not much of a cause for celebration for Mila Kunis’s Audrey, especially as boyfriend Drew (Justin Theroux) has just dumped her by text, having grown bored of the relationship. What she doesn’t know about this guy, however, is he’s actually a CIA agent, being chased by ruthless assassins.
Cue a slightly messy but mostly chucklesome action comedy in which Audrey and pal Morgan (Kate McKinnon) find themselves caught up in a deadly conspiracy. Turns out they make a deadly duo.
YOU (15)
(Netflix Original)
JOE Goldberg (Penn Badgley) is a smart, well educated guy, the boss of a New York bookstore. He’s also a pervy creep.
We twig this within the first few seconds of Netflix’s new thriller, when in walks new customer Guinevere Beck (Elizabeth Lail), an aspiring young writer, and we immediately get to eavesdrop on Joe’s lustful inner-thoughts (“Are you not wearing a bra? And you want me to notice..!”).
Beck, as she’s known to all, is only in Joe’s store a couple of minutes or so, but it’s enough to plant the seed of what will become an obsession.
FINAL SCORE (15) (Download now, DVD and Blu-ray from Boxing Day) WEST Ham United’s old Boleyn Ground is the setting for this bonkers action thriller, starring Dave Bautista and Pierce Brosnan.
It finds Bautista playing an ex-soldier, fighting to save the 35,000 crowd from annihilation by Russian terrorists.