Theatre Now Review: National Theatre Live – Julie
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...
TN On The Screen Review: The House With a Clock in its Walls
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...
OTT Movie Review: Film Stars Don’t Die In Liverpool
And neither did John Lennon... although it’s where this oddly-titled film is set. It’s odd, as it suggests a romantic comedy, but this movie is anything but. It’s based on a book which tells...
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: The Nightingale
Con's Score: 3.5 Blackbirds
The only real conflict experienced on Australian soil was “The Black Wars” against the Indigenous Australians. I don’t have to tell you the black fellas lost. In Tasmania they were wiped out....
On The Screen Review: Pavarotti
Con's Score: 3.5 /5 High Cs
That voice. That name. (You know you’re an icon when spell check can finish typing it for you.) The documentary opens with Luciano Pavarotti wanting to sing in an...
On The Screen Review: Knives Out
Con's Score: 4.5 Cuts
It’s been a while since we’ve seen a good murder-mystery , although this is more of a suicide-mystery. Catching crims through superior technology is more the go these days than clever...
Theatre Now: On The Screen – C’est La Vie
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...
On The Screen Review: Diego Maradona
Con's Score: 4.5 Hands of God
When I mentioned I was seeing this documentary to an English friend, a few minutes later he was still frothing. Maradona is someone who still inspires anger, passion and ridicule...
On The Screen Review: The Australian Dream
Con's Score: 4.5 Swans
Following the impact of The Final Quarter (TFQ) and the discussion it generated, I thought there was no need for another Adam Goodes documentary. I baulked at the thought of putting...