Prairie Miller

Seemingly crafted as a series of dramatic shortcuts that rarely pause to delve into core personalities, The Runaways is an uneven clash of nicely telegraphed raw sound and timid storytelling.

Radio figured as a heavily symbolic character in its own right last year, in movies like Pontpool as a method of toxic mainstream media mind control.

Not to be confused with any immortal futuristic entrepreneur of the sci-fi variety, though suggestions of that surreal state of mind are on the verge of presenting themselves from time to time, Bulletproof Salesman probes the business side of war.

We're talking a ballsier than thou babe who really knows how to rescue her timid man from danger, and doesn't think twice about dealing with a serial sexual predator, by raping him right back.

While movies about US military incursions in the Middle East may be welcome in terms of making sense of it all, audiences don't actually want to end up there themselves.