On The Screen Review: Captain Marvel
Rylan's Score: 4/5
Following the grandiose events of Infinity War, Marvel needs a new banner character to take us into Phase 4 following Endgame. The highly anticipated Captain Marvel delivers on that promise and ushers...
On The Screen Review: Maria by Callas
Con's Score:Â 4 Divas
The tricky title comes from an answer Maria Callas gave to interviewer David Frost, where she says she feels like two people are inside her. The plain Maria, who wants to be...
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: If Beale Street Could Talk
Con's Score: 4 Jars of beer
Beale Street is an important street in African-American history. It’s where Louis Armstrong and the Memphis blues were were born, but this adaptation of James Baldwin’s novel isn't about...
On The Scree Review: Antony & Cleopatra
Con's Score:4.5 Asps
The greatest love story ever told is the subject of this month’s NT Live production, starring Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo.
Marc Antony (Ralph Fiennes) is romping it up in Egypt with Cleopatra...
On The Screen Review: Capharnaüm
Con's Score:Â 4.5 sugar-coated ice cubes
The title means ‘Chaos’ in Arabic in this story about a young 12 year-old boy who sues his parents ‘For giving me life’. (This is far more profound than Macaulay...
On The Screen Review: Free Solo
Con's Score: 4 Big Boulders
Free soloing is a mental affliction that compels rock climbers to scale cliff faces without a rope. (Well, you can't call this a sport.) No cleats, pulleys or buddy; just...
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 Screen Review: Storm Boy
Rylan' Score 4.5/5
Some things just want to be left alone. Be it land, beaches, widows or birds.
The 1963 novel about a South Australian boy who rescues and befriends pelicans has been re-imagined by director...
On The Screen Reviews: The Favourite
Con's Score:Â 4.5 pineapple slices
Giving a period piece to a director like Yiorgos Lanthimos, known for his absurd sense of humour, is a risky choice. In the case of The Favourite it’s an inspired one.
We’re...