Big on brains, low on laughs
Young Sheldon,
Nine, Monday and Tuesday, 7.30pm
Apparently this is America’s number one comedy and it’s true I laughed out loud - once halfway through the...
Don’t block the laughs
Blockers
Starring: John Cena, Leslie Mann, Ike Barinholtz
It’s your standard teen sex comedy ... for adults.
That’s how our household’s Mr 16 described this one -...
Wascally wabbit of woe
By Tania Phillips
Peter Rabbit
Starring: Rose Byrne, Domhnall Gleeson, Sam Neill, James Corden, Daisy Ridley, Elizabeth Debicki, Margot Robbie
Once upon a...
It’s easy to love Simon
Love, Simon
Starring: Nick Robinson, Katherine Langford, Jennifer Garner
Love Simon is a 2018 teen romantic comedy about a 17-year-old kid named Simon living a totally...
Sando – how low can you go?
By Tania Phillips
Sando
ABCTV, Wednesday, 9pm
From the writer of Here Come The Habibs and the writer of The Moodys, comes Sando - the latest...
All fun and games
Game Night
Starring: Jason Bateman, Rachel McAdams
There really are some impressive laugh-out-loud moments in Game Night, a film that uses its top-notch male and female...
Reviewing the reviewers
Screen,
Wednesday, 7.30pm, Foxtel Arts
For almost three decades Margaret Pomeranz and her on-screen reviewing partner David Stratton were the eyes, ears and mouths of Australian...
Conan the librarians
The Librarians,
Fox - SyFy Channel, Sunday 8.30pm
Imagine that a world-famous Metropolitan Library is more than what it seems.
That below it is the centuries-old headquarters...
The world according to Hughesy
Hughesy We Have A Problem,
Channel Ten, 8.30pm, Tuesday
This is cheap and cheerful TV at its best - well, maybe not its best but it’s...
Driven to a storied solution
Squinters,
ABC, Wednesday, 9pm
Five carloads of Aussies travelling to and from work every day is the premise for the brand new ABC comedy starting this...
Love the player, love the game
Molly's Game
Starring: Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, Kevin Costner, Michael Cera
It's easy to tell that Molly’s Game, the story of an Olympic-hopeful who ends up...
These shockers should walk the plank
In a year that started well but became a little disillusioning as it went along, reviewer Tania Phillips looks at the movies that are...
All things fleece at Pakenham Woolcraft Day
It was all things fleece and craft on the weekend as people gathered to spin their yarns in more ways than one at the...
