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 as writer along with a slew of good friends in...
On The Screen Review: The Hummingbird Project
Con's Score:Â 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 Project. He was so fascinated with the idea of how...
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 quirky tale that indie movies are made of. As a...
On The Screen Review: Captain Marvel
Rylan's Score: 4/5
Following the grandiose events of Infinity War, Marvel needs a new banner character to take us into Phase 4 following Endgame. The highly anticipated Captain Marvel delivers on that promise and ushers...
On The Screen Review: Maria by Callas
Con's Score:Â 4 Divas
The tricky title comes from an answer Maria Callas gave to interviewer David Frost, where she says she feels like two people are inside her. The plain Maria, who wants to be...
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 straight out factual production which steps through his life and...
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 born, but this adaptation of James Baldwin’s novel isn't about...
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 (Ralph Fiennes) is romping it up in Egypt with Cleopatra...
On The Screen Review: Capharnaüm
Con's Score:Â 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 giving me life’. (This is far more profound than Macaulay...
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 call this a sport.) No cleats, pulleys or buddy; just...