2021: ones to watch
Read it before you see it.
Here are the hottest titles hitting small (or big) screens in 2021. It's going to be a jam-packed year of entertainment, with plenty to read and then watch. What do you think, is the book or TV/film adaptation better?
Now a major motion picture
IN CINEMAS NOW, from Leah Purcell, named as one of the 100 figures shaping Australia’s creative future.
The Drover's Wife is utterly authentic, brilliantly plotted, thoroughly harrowing and entirely of our times exploring race, gender, violence and inheritance.
Now a major Netflix original drama
Now a major motion picture from Apple TV+
Now a Sky Cinema original film
Now a Sky Cinema original film starring Outlander's Sam Heughan, and Andy Serkis
Now a Netflix film
Now a major BBC TV drama
Now the subject of a major BBC TV drama, this is the only full-length study of Charles Sobrhaj - one of the world's greatest conmen, and notorious serial killers.
Season 4 now on SBS
The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire – neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs.
Now a HBO original documentary
Tina Turner: My Love Story will chart the full, dramatic story of one of the most remarkable women in music history, celebrating Tina Turner’s 60th year in the industry.
Now a Stan series
A gloriously absurd and hugely entertaining satire about intimacy and love from the provocative writer of the acclaimed novel Tampa. Soon to be a HBO series.
Now a Netflix original series
Now in paperback, Jeff Lemire's SWEET TOOTH is collected in this new edition including sketches and behind-the-scenes scripts.