!!!On The Screen Reviews

The Palestinian Film Festival Australia 2017 The Palestinian Film Festival Australia is a chance to celebrate Palestinian life and culture through film, art and creativity. Palestine, hanging on by a thread, is a nation of...

Faces Places A documentary by Agnés Varda and JR Palace Cinema, Paddington. Love is the last saving grace of humanity. The storyteller’s art, documentary, allows us to tell stories of others as well as our...

I like films made about artists. It's as if the director takes their vision and ensures every frame is framed like art. To make a film about the earless one, Vincent Van Gogh, directors...

I've noticed how more movies are being made about real people, the unsung heroes and artists are the more fascinating. This little known American folk painter's life attracted funding from Irish and Canadian funding...

What a tiptop cast writer-director Amanda Sthers has assembled for this French comedy. Ana (Toni Collette), the Madame of the house, is Harry's (Harvey Kietel's) second wife and they're hosting an important dinner party....

Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara have just bought a nice house. It's a two-bedroom bungalow with charm, warmth and a resident ghost, but it needs some work. Casey has a car accident and dies....

If, as Paul Keating once said, Australia is the "arse-end of the world", its sphincter would be Coolgardie. It's a mining town just west of Kalgoorlie, WA and the middle of nowhere. The local pub,...

Emily Dickinson (Cynthia Nixon) was a poet who was more celebrated after she died at age 56 from Wright's disease. (Why you'd want give your name to an incurable disease is beyond me.) This...