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...
On The Screen Review: Suzie Q
Con's Score: 3.5 Wild Ones
What is surprising about this first documentary about the Queen of Rock, Suzie Quatro, is that it’s Australian and financed by Film Victoria and Screen Australia. Suzie Kay Quatro was...
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: 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...
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...
TN On The Screen Review: Cold War
Con's Score: 3.5 cigarettes
Some of the best films are the ones that say the least. The ones that leave gaps wide enough for you to fill in the silence, because that’s what your brain...
On The Screen Review: Little Monsters
Con's Score: 3 /5 Ukuleles
The zombie movie genre has now morphed into so many variations, it might need its own awards night. Australian writer-director Abe Forsythe has now given us a zom-rom-com with a...
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....
Theatre Now Review: National Theatre Live – Julie
Con's Score: 2.5 lines of coke
The NT live brings a remake of August Strindberg’s classic, Miss Julie, to life for this theatre-to-film production. Re-writer Polly Stenham and director Carrie Cracknell promise a modern feminist...
On The Screen Review: Minari
"But Minari a soft, warmly funny and endearing way to remind us of the colour, flavours and experiences migrants bring to, and also take from, a new land." - Con Nats
3.5 Cans of Mountain...