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THE JEWISH ENQUIRER
(Amazon Prime Video) ★★★★
THIS hilarious new British sitcom stars Tim Downie as Paul, a hapless, rather emotionally underdeveloped reporter for “the UK’s fourth biggest Jewish publication”.
Lucy Montgomery is his super-sweary sister Naomi, with Josh Howie as Simon, the angsty best mate who’s as cringemakingly hopeless as Paul is when it comes to dating. In the first of six episodes, available from today, Paul manages to wreck his little nephew’s birthday party. BLACK AND BLUE (15)
(Download now, DVD from Monday)
★★★
WHEN corrupt New Orleans cops murder a young drug dealer, a rookie officer (Naomie Harris) inadvertently captures the whole thing on her body cam.
This quickly lands her in a whole heap of trouble, both from the dodgy police and from the vengeful criminals.
A childhood friend (Tyrese Gibson) may be the only person who can help her. TERMINATOR: DARK FATE (15)
(Download now, DVD and Blu-ray from Monday)
★★★
ORIGINAL stars Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton return in a new Terminator movie that happily ignores huge chunks of the franchise’s previous output.
A Mexican car factory worker (Natalia Reyes) has become a super-sophisticated
Terminator’s target. To survive, she must hook up with Hamilton’s battle-hardened rebel fighter Sarah Connor and Mackenzie Davis’s Grace, a warrior from the future. COUNTDOWN (15)
(Download now, DVD and Blu-ray from Monday)
★
WANT to know when you’ll die? Turns out there’s an app for that.
Not really, just in this silly horror film, where it convinces a young woman (Elizabeth Lail) that her death is just three days away.