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Cowboy Bebop is a stunning series that’s also deeply faithful to the gritty noir spirit of the original space-western anime. The six-part series from Train to Busan director Yeon Sang-ho is a compelling mix of police procedural, violent horror and shrewd social commentary. All the while, a cult named The New Truth is rapidly gaining followers. Giant demonic creatures from hell are collecting the souls of sinners in modern-day Seoul. If you want the next gory Korean thriller. Beautifully shot in New Zealand, this is a chamber piece on a grand scale. The two-hour film looks a bit like Brokeback Mountain and there is a definite homoerotic subtext, but Campion makes it very much her own - a long, dark, mysterious meditation on the human condition. Her effeminate son (Australia’s Kodi Smit-McPhee) brings out the worst in the very mixed-up cowboys.

Cumberbatch plays the nastier of two successful ranching brothers the other (Jesse Plemons) marries a widow (Dunst), which mightily upsets the family balance. What’s not to love? It’s even got a piano. Benedict Cumberbatch and Kirsten Dunst inhabit the wild west of Montana in 1925, in a new film from Oscar-winning director Jane Campion.