Five things for you to watch this weekend

THE JOURNALIST NETFLIX

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This Japanese drama explores the determination of a dogged journalist to investigate a story involving government corruption in a dodgy land case.

It may be a fantasy of a perfect-world version of how the relationship between the fourth estate and government is supposed to work but in many countries, including ours, it’ sa fundamental relationship that has benefited the public and needs to be protected.

DR DEATH SHOWMAX

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Joshua Jackson stars as the cold and psychotic Texas medical professional wunderkind at the heart of this true story adapted from an acclaimed podcast.

He plays Dr Christopher Duntsch, a surgeon who comes under scrutiny after a large number of his patients are mangled or killed as a result of his operating procedures. Costarring Alec Baldwin and Christian Slater, it’s a compelling mystery/medical drama whose story is a shocking indictment on medical practitioners who have scant regard for the welfare of their patients.

ANXIOUS PEOPLE NETFLIX

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This is an oddball dark comedy murder mystery from Sweden in which an eccentric bank robber holds a group of visitors to an open house hostage and then mysteriously disappears.

He’s pursued by a dysfunctional father-son team of police detectives as we learn about the hostages and how they ended up attending an open house they won’t forget in a hurry.

MUNICH: THE EDGE OF THE WORLD NETFLIX

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This is a handsomely crafted World War 2 spy thriller, whose ending we all know. Based on the thriller by best-selling writer Robert Harris, it’s the story of two young men on opposite sides of the political wrangling that will lead to the outbreak of the war.

At the Munich emergency conference in 1938, the two friends — one a British public servant and the other a German diplomat — find themselves caught in the chaos of doubledealing and obfuscation as Hitler prepares to push the world over the brink.