The recent TV option for popular queer novel After the Siren is the latest in a long history of LGBTQ+ stories enjoyed on Aussie TV and cinema screens.
7
… entertaining enough …
6
... rather plodding ...
A story that does a total 180-degree turn is, for most directors, absolute gold dust. “That’s one of the things that really, really attracted me,” remarks Argentinian director Pablo Trapero
An all-singing Hollywood bushranger movie
9.5
...a deliriously dexterous assault on the senses...
8
What might have amounted to mere melodrama — and it is undeniably over-the-top at times — is actually an involving and sometimes moving drama, its slow build-up vindicated by the
A first look at Mike Flanagan's 8-ep series, starring Summer H. Howell and Samantha Sloyan.
Miles Franklin's classic text is adapted by Liz Doran (um, Barons), with Philippa Northeast in the role made famous by Judy Davis in the 1979 film of the same name.
7.2
Absolutely worth a watch on the biggest screen you can find, but not quite the genre-busting triumph you might have hoped for.