On The Screen Review: Green Light
Con's Score: 2.5 Magic drops of oil
Luke Conroy and Nicholas Morley are two mavericks, in that they work outside the legal medicinal marijuana system. The problem is that the legal system hasn’t been set...
On The Screen Review: Fleabag (National Theatre)
Con's Score: 3.5 guinea pigs
What is it about hearing a well spoken English lass, speaking boldly about her huge vagina, that gets an audience rolling about hysterically?
For many in the audience of this National Theatre...
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...
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: The Lehman Brothers Trilogy
Con's Score: 4.5 Sheckles
The Lehman Brothers name will always be synonymous with the collapse of the bank which set off the Global Financial Crisis of 2009. The history of three Jewish brothers from Bavaria...
On The Screen Review: Dogman
Con's Score: 3.5 hound dogs
In a decaying Italian town, stuck between an overgrown seaside and nowhere, Marcello (Marcello Fonte) is the cheery dog groomer. Even when a dog growls menacingly at him, he finds...
On The Screen Review: Never Look Away
Con's Score: 3.5 brush strokes
This bio pic is so loosely based on visual artist Gerhard Richter’s life, it’s misleading to call it one. At 189 minutes, it can be called an epically touching tribute...
On The Screen Review: At Eternity’s Gate
Con's Score: 3 Sunflowers
There’s been a run of Vincent Van Gogh cinematic experiences in the last year. There was the stylistic Loving Vincent, two documentaries and now this film starring Willem Dafoe. I should consider...
On The Screen Review: The Australian Dream
Con's Score: 4.5 Swans
Following the impact of The Final Quarter (TFQ) and the discussion it generated, I thought there was no need for another Adam Goodes documentary. I baulked at the thought of putting...
On The Screen Review: Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
Con's Score: 4 Blowtorches
Once upon a time in Hollywood, movie stars were gods, the good guys always won and the bad guys snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. A lot of that gloss was...