The Devil Wears Prada 2 and other new movies everyone will be talking about this week

M (109 minutes)

I’m resisting the temptation to begin this sentence with the words “gird your loins”. The phrase has already been used by too many other people hailing the return of Miranda Priestly.

In preparation for the release of the long-awaited Prada sequel the teasers and trailers were thoroughly inspected and dissected and even Anna Wintour joined the promotional push, being a good sport about her real-life role as the model for the glacial Miranda, editor of the fictional fashion magazine Runway.

Two decades have passed since the first film and the media industry has seen some momentous power shifts. These days digital rules, print journalism is enduring tough times and Anne Hathaway’s Andy Sachs, former Runway assistant, has spent the intervening years becoming an award-winning news reporter. But when her paper goes under, she accepts an offer to return to the magazine as its features editor.

M (100 minutes)

Whether Warwick Thornton’s Wolfram qualifies as a Western depends on what you think a Western is. There’s no lack of heat and dust, even more than there was in Thornton’s 2017 Sweet Country, likewise set north of Alice Springs around 1930 (and scripted by the same team, David Tranter and Steven McGregor).

Frontier violence, too, is no less prominent than in the earlier film. “Wolfram” is a word for tungsten, the commodity mined in this remote region. But the title seems meant to summon other associations, including the adage: “Man is a wolf to man.”

Wolfish behaviour is what we get from Casey (Erroll Shand), a desperado who rides into town with his sidekick Frank (Joe Bird), nominally to stake a mining claim. Their adventures are juxtaposed with those of a more innocent duo, Max (Hazel Jackson) and Kid (Eli Hart), Indigenous children effectively enslaved by their white father figure Billy (Matt Nable).