!!!On The Screen Reviews

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...

Love is love. This is the ultimate message of A Fantastic Woman, a beautiful narrative film, written and directed by Sebastian Lelio, which explores themes of acceptance, survival, empathy and resilience of the spirit. It...

“If you place an object in a museum does that make this object a piece of art?” In the opening scene of Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or winning film, playboy protagonist-slash-contemporary art curator Christian, is being...

And neither did John Lennon... although it’s where this oddly-titled film is set. It’s odd, as it suggests a romantic comedy, but this movie is anything but. It’s based on a book which tells...

In what Wikipedia informs me is the fourth adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express, the 2017 incarnation passes the OCD-baton to Kenneth Branagh to take a turn as arguably history’s greatest...

Molly Bloom has nothing to do with the James Joyce character, but more to do with the convicted criminal who once ran a red hot poker game, but is no less colourful. This Molly...

We start in FIRE – flames burn bright – and we are met with a girl of fire-red hair… Harsh flames surround a girl in the midst of a daring and dangerous, adventurous escape… And the...

Premiering at the 2017 Cannes International Film Festival, writer/director Carine Tardieu’s new movie Just To Be Sure is a tale of familial and romantic love, dreams, hopes, secrets and lies. When lonely 45-year-old widower and...

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...