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Never Too Late (M, 98 mins) Directed by Mark Lamprell ***½ Never Too Late is the latest in a line of old-codgers-gone-rogue movies we've all sat through recently. But it sure ain't the worst. Our heroes are four veterans of the Vietnam War – all seasoned prison camp escapees – who now find themselves living in the same retirement home in Adelaide. When one of their number learns that the love of his life – who he's never quite got around to telling that fact – is about to be sent away for months, a plan is concocted to break out and belatedly pursue true love.

800 Words) has made a career out of playing nice guys, but he has a lot of fun here letting the nasty loose as past-his-prime celebrity chef Easton West. He’s not the only big name on the menu - Rachel Griffiths and Wayne Blair have big supporting roles - but newcomer Natalie Abbott as budding pastry chef Diana is the standout ingredient of this delicious comedy-drama. If you like: MasterChef, Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares, Chef’s Table - but secretly find all that chef worship just a bit too much. Angry chef Easton West (played by Erik Thomson) has some home truths coming...

Euthanasia pops up in many films and TV series, but in The End the idea is the very core of the10-part series. The series opens with recently widowed Edie (Dame Harriet Walter, The Crown, Killing Eve) trying to kill herself, when she’s interrupted by a fire starting in her living room. Determined, she hurls herself out of a window, but is carted off in an ambulance. This prompts her daughter Kate (Frances O’Connor), who escaped her suffocating British upbringing and moved to the Gold Coast years earlier, to ship Edie to Australia and re-house her in a gaudy, upmarket retirement village,...

  The End will be one of the best local dramas you’ll see this year. You can thank the exquisite relationship between Dame Harriet Walter and Noni Hazlehurst for plenty of that success. Their friendship as two seniors lifts off the screen and ignites a captivating tale from insightful writer Samantha Strauss ( Dance Academy, The Wrong Girl). “It says ‘Do not resuscitate!'” Edie tells British paramedics after a botched suicide attempt, but having survived a fall from her first floor window, she is whisked away by family to Queensland. Daughter Dr. Kate Brennan (Frances O’Connor) and...

The subject of euthanasia may sound like a grim topic for a drama series, but writer Samantha Strauss can thank her grandmother for inspiring The End -an offbeat and sometimes humorous tale set in a Queensland retirement village. The Foxtel series has attracted a top-notch cast including Dame Harriet Walter ( Succession, The Crown, Killing Eve), Frances O’Connor ( The Missing, A Place to Call Home, City Homicide). “She was horrified by the whole scenario. She arrived really depressed, dressed in browns and hunched over. She’d survived a couple of cancers and my dad, who is a doctor, g...