OTT Movie Review: The Breaker Upperers
In this high energy, cringe-while-you-laugh buddy film of the Winter, Jackie van Beek and Madeleine Sami write, direct and star in the story of two flawed women who run a business devoted to speeding...
Theatre Now – On The Screen Review: Equalizer 2
Alastair's Score: 2/5
From the beginning, Antoine Fuqua’s Equalizer 2 is an exercise in contradictions. This is the first time for both Fuqua and Denzel Washington making a sequel and in an attempt to avoid...
On The Screen Reviews: You Were Never Really Here
Jonathan Ames and Lynne Ramsay on any credit list guarantee a dynamic duo of narrative storytelling. One is a prolific crime-fiction author-cum-exhibitionist, and the other is one of the most masterful and thoughtful filmmakers...
On The Screen Review: Touch Me Not [Sydney Film Festival]
Adina Pintilie’s first feature gained attention this year after leaving Berlinale with the coveted Golden Bear. Despite many eyes on it. Touch Me Not is a film that evades a category. At a push...
On The Screen Review: Aurora
Con's Score: 3.5 Hot Flushes
Aurora is a single woman who’s just hit fifty, menopause, her new boss is a tosser who wants to call her Samantha (because it’s sexier), one daughter is pregnant and...
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: Tully
Con's Score: 4 Diapers
I’m not a parent but the appeal of Jason Reitman and Diablo Cody (writer of Juno) coming together with Charlize Therone is hard to resist, even if the topic didn’t appeal.
Charlize...
On The Screen Review: Breath
This is an adaptation of the Tim Winton novel which Simon Baker took a big liking to. He’s one of the producers, the director, a lead character, and he even gave himself a writing...
On The Screen Review: Loveless
This intriguing Russian film was a Best Foreign Language Film nominee at the Academy Awards and a Jury Prize winner at Cannes amongst other film festival awards.
Zhanya and Boris (such great names for a...
On The Screen: Last Flag Flying
We’ve had plenty of ‘war is hell’ movies, so it’s good in this post-Iraq age we start to see the effects of the aftermath before we rush into any more ill advised conflicts. And...