This is a story about how modern masculinity is killing the world, and how feminism can save it. It's a story about sex and power and trauma and resistance and persistence.

Lucy and Joshua are competitors more than they are colleagues, vying for the same promotion despite their respective personalities and brands of ambition. Despite their professional gripes, the mounting sexual tension between Lucy and Joshua eventuates in a full-fledged romance in and outside of the office.

In Maid, we are enveloped in the protagonist’s scramble for all of the following: income, social security benefits, custody rights and a place to live. For the most part, the ticket to each of these is a low-paid, labour intensive house cleaning job with a lousy employer called Value Maids.

The Orchard Murders does well as a standalone crime read, although I imagine loyal readers of Gott’s series would better appreciate the character development across novels.

With this new release, Australian readers especially would do well to take a look at Seven Fallen Feathers and consider the similar atrocities perpetuated against Indigenous people in our own backyard.

If you want a film that takes an honest look at familial relationships, which breaks your heart and proceeds to mend it in 100 minutes, then June Again is your best bet.