It’s one of the oldest forms of entertainment we know, something that appeals to people of all ages in all cultures, but what is it about the thriller that gets us in?

I'm joined by film-maker Jon Hewitt and reviewer Jo Cohen to look at which films have kept them on the edge of their seats… and why they loved them.

If every village gets an idiot and every dictatorship gets an untouchable leader, what happens when the two combine? Sacha Baron Cohen’s The Dictator.

Yes the man who brought us the mostly-real-life pranks of Borat and Bruno has turned his finely tuned offensive instincts on a fictional North African country in an effort to amuse audiences or spark global warfare ... or both.

Join the Sydney Morning Herald’s Giles Hardie, Rolling Stone’s Matt Coyte and film critic Nathan Lawrence as they risk political exile, radical extremism and temporary blindness by taking a close look at the hits and misses of The Dictator