On The Screen Review: Roma
Con's Score: 4 doggie do’s
The move by Netflix into producing films has been a controversial one, especially as they’re aimed at screening on their channel and bypassing cinema screens. After watching Okja I wasn’t too...
On The Town Movie Review: Faces Places
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...
On The Screen Review: The Whale
"this film will move you and haunt you"
"You don’t need explosions to create power. Just powerful characters and the excellence of actors who can deliver them."Con Nats 4 slices of Dominos
Charlie is a...
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: Burning
Con's Score: 2.5 greenhouse gases
Director Lee Chan-Dong adapts a Murakami short story into a full length noir thriller, in this Korean Academy Award nominee.
Jongsu (Ah-In Yoo) is just out of college when he bumps into...
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: All Is True
Con's Score: 2 Quills
Kenneth Branagh takes on Shakespeare’s last days in his latest Producer-Director-Actor project. It’s an epic task and he’s enlisted Ben Elton as writer along with a slew of good friends in...
OTT Movie Review: The Party
There is nothing better than a dinner party with a set menu: cake, champagne and politics. Sally Potter's latest innovation is seventy-one minutes of quirky and pertinent fun. English political realities are twisted into...
On The Screen Review: Biggest Little Farm
Con's Score: 4 Free Rang Eggs
Sometimes what can sound like a twee documentary about a couple making a sea change can be as illuminating as it is moving, and as visually engaging as any...
On The Screen Review: Toorboos [South African Film Festival]
"Her acting is top class and she manages to make you care about Koriena, no matter how irrational her behaviour might seem....This is far from a conventional romantic storytelling." Con Nats3.5 Saplings
This South...