In this episode of Screen, the lines between fact and fiction are blurred for the heist thriller American Animals and Chekhov's The Seagull comes to cinemas with Annette Bening and Saoirse Ronan. In TV, Nash Edgerton directs the complicated life of a hitman in Mr. Inbetween and the stars of POSE are interviewed.
This week on Screen, director Gus Van Sant reteams with Joaquin Phoenix for Don't Worry He Won't Get Far On Foot and the career of Ian McKellen is detailed in the documentary Playing The Part. In TV, The ABC cracks open the case of Keli Lane and we board the starship Orville for some space set dramedy.
Bruce Beresford directs Ladies In Black, and Searching provides a unique point of view in the genre. In TV, Jim Carrey makes his drama series debut, while Hugh Grant and Ben Wishaw endure A Very English Scandal.
Steve Coogan and Paul Rudd are a bickering couple in Ideal Home, while Shane and Clayton Jacobson show us their dark side in Brothers Nest. In TV, crack cocaine rules 1980s Los Angles in the new drama series Snowfall.
Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams share a forbidden love in Disobedience, and Australian writer-director Leigh Whannell gives us the techno-horror Upgrade.
Toni Collette and Gabriel Byrne star in Hereditary, while Ed Harris, Elizabeth Olsen and Jason Sudeikis star in Kodachrome. In TV, UK comedian Romesh Ranganathan moves his family to the US for the docu-comedy series Just Another Immigrant.
Woody Harrelson plays US president Lyndon B Johnson, Joel Edgerton and Charlize Theron star in Gringo, and actor Aaron Pedersen is interviewed about Mystery Road, the series.
28 min
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Foxtel Arts’ new review program SCREEN sees the return of Australia’s favourite film critic Margaret Pomeranz alongside much loved actor and writer Graeme Blundell. This widely respected duo will be…
doing what they do best; critiquing cinema releases and premium TV dramas. Arguably, the combined knowledge of Pomeranz and Blundell regarding both the local and international entertainment industries is unmatched by any other program or publication in Australia.