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On The Screen Review: Burning

Con's Score: 2.5 greenhouse gases Director Lee Chan-Dong adapts a Murakami short story into a full length noir thriller, in this Korean Academy Award nominee. Jongsu (Ah-In...

On The Screen Review: All Is True

Con's Score: 2 Quills Kenneth Branagh takes on Shakespeare’s last days in his latest Producer-Director-Actor project. It’s an epic task and he’s enlisted Ben Elton...

On The Screen Review: The Hummingbird Project

Con's Score: 2 copper wires It was the imagery of having big business execs wading through swamps that inspired writer-director Kim Nguyen to write the Hummingbird...

On The Screen Review: Breaking Habits

Con's Score:3 spliffs The story of how a corporate woman ended up on the streets and became a ‘dope dealing nun’ is the sort of...

On The Screen Review: Maria by Callas

Con's Score: 4 Divas The tricky title comes from an answer Maria Callas gave to interviewer David Frost, where she says she feels like two people...

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...

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...

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...

On The Screen Review: Capharnaüm

Con's Score: 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...

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...

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...

On The Screen Reviews: The Favourite

Con's Score: 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....
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