!!!On The Screen Reviews

Con's Score: 3.5 Paperbacks It’s a week parents have come to hate, and it appears teachers do too. Especially, unpublished English teachers who have their mediocrity reflected back at them. Nick Cutler (Alan Dukes) is one...

Con's Score: 4 Slimy smiling beasties Event Cinema has installed one of two 4D Cinemas in Australia and are using Venom to launch. This isn’t just vibrating seats; this is Sensaround on steroids. When you first walk...

Con's Score: 2.5 lines of coke The NT live brings a remake of August Strindberg’s classic, Miss Julie, to life for this theatre-to-film production. Re-writer Polly Stenham and director Carrie Cracknell promise a modern feminist...

Con's Score:2 Voddies Anton Chekhov wrote some great plays which had multiple multi-layered characters, storylines and meanings, which make his stories attractive to actors and directors. Mike Mayer’s film has attracted a strong cast and...

2.5 Jack (Black) lanterns The long title tells you this isn’t a serious story, especially with Jack Black in the credits. If it’s haunted houses, crazy creatures and fantasy you’re expecting, then you’re at the...

Con's Score: 4 catwalks I’d always thought of artists as being actors, writers, painters etc. I never thought that fashion designers could fall into this category. And the last person you’d consider an artist would...

Con's Score:2.5 Shades of Grey This film draws together a range of acting legends in this story of four older women who are life-long friends Writer-director Bill Holderman has drawn together a range of acting legends...

Con's Score: 4.5 Dog Whistles This Lebanese film (which has a lot of French investment) was nominated for an Academy award and won the audience vote at the Sydney Film Festival. It’s no surprise. This...

Con's Score:3.5 Dum-dum dee-dum’s Weddings always make great fodder for movies. The time pressure, the elaborate details, the number of guests, the building to the event, and the reception is a great setting for lots...

Con's Score:3.5 Damned spots The London National Theatre Live have gone with an old favourite of Shakespeare’s, with the Great Scottish play, as they say in theatre. Like anybody over the age of 30, I seen Macbeth...