OTT Movie Review: Just To Be Sure
Premiering at the 2017 Cannes International Film Festival, writer/director Carine Tardieu’s new movie Just To Be Sure is a tale of familial and romantic love, dreams, hopes, secrets and lies.
When lonely 45-year-old widower and...
On The Screen Review: Here Out West
"It’s real, and it’s honest. It’s full of excellent ethnic actors, writers and directors oozing talent, telling their stories."
"I can only stand and applaud Screen Australia and the ABC for funding this excellent...
On The Screen Review: The Heiresses [Sydney Film Festival]
Con's Score: 3.5 Rides
This Uruguayan film breaks a lot of repressive taboos in its look at the bourgeois and women in Uruguan society. The fact they’re lesbians is almost incidental.
Chela (Ana Brun) and Chiquita...
On The Screen Review – Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Con's Score: 3.5 Light Sabres
Star Wars means so much to so many. I remember queuing up twice to get tickets back in 1977, and sitting on the footpath waiting for The Empire Strikes Back....
On The Scree Review: Antony & Cleopatra
Con's Score:4.5 Asps
The greatest love story ever told is the subject of this month’s NT Live production, starring Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo.
Marc Antony (Ralph Fiennes) is romping it up in Egypt with Cleopatra...
On The Screen Review: The Nightingale
Con's Score: 3.5 Blackbirds
The only real conflict experienced on Australian soil was “The Black Wars” against the Indigenous Australians. I don’t have to tell you the black fellas lost. In Tasmania they were wiped out....
On The Screen Review – Vincent van Gogh: A New Way of Seeing
Con's Score: 3 Sunflowers
This documentary has been put together by the Van Gough museum in Amsterdam and directed by an Australian David Bickerstaff.
It a straight out factual production which steps through his life and...
On The Screen Review: A Stitch In Time
"You can feel Hadden’s enthusiasm and love for Lieber shine through. The script could have been tighter and less obvious, but it does punch well above its weight and touches a few heart strings."...
On The Screen Review: Supanova
"Harry McQueen has written and directed a beautifully tragic film. Dick Pope’s cinematography of crisp English countrysides is breath taking, as are many of the shots.""I kept wondering what attracted these two top class...
On The Screen – Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
Con's Score: 4 Gleaming Horns
Listening to a Kind of Blue, by Miles Davis, has for many been a moment that has changed their lives. It’s one of the greatest albums of all times - the...