On The Screen Review: Diego Maradona
Con's Score:Â 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: Ophelia
Con Score:Â 3 Skulls of Yorrick
Hamlet was so rich with characters and internal conflicts, it could have had more spin offs than CSI. Ophelia, who was the troubled Hamlet’s lady, features in this female-driven film....
On The Screen Review: Apollo 11
Con's Score:Â 4 Starry Stars
The problem with hoarders is they’re good at keeping things but not knowing where they are when they want them. When director Tom Douglas Miller worked with NASA and the National...
On The Screen Review: Parasite
Con's Score: 4 Peaches
This film is the Palme D’OR winner from Cannes, and the first South Korean film to do win it. It’s conceived, co-written and directed by Bong Joon Ho, who directed the...
On The Screen Review: All My Sons
Con's Score:Â 4 White Pickets
Arthur Miller’s script gets the National Theatre Live treatment at the Old Vic with a stellar cast crossing the Atlantic for this one.
Joe Keller (Bill Pullman) is the hearty epitome of...
On The Screen Review: Little Woods
Con's Score:Â 3.5 Packets of Painkillers
Ollie (Tessa Thompson) is a tough cookie. She’s barely out of teenagehood and she sleeps on the floor of her mother’s room, out of habit. She nursed her mother through...
On The Screen Review: All About Eve
Con's Score: 3.5 scratches
A famous old film script has drawn the attention of a famous actress , Gillian Anderson Gillian Anderson (The X-Files, The Fall, NT Live: A Streetcar Named Desire) and a younger...
On The Screen Review: 2040
Rylan's Score: 4.5 Green Stars
Global warming. Climate change. Those words usually send people around the pub table into a frenzied shit-storm of an argument. Most of the time this will include denial, pessimism, or...
On The Screen Review: Burning
Con's Score:Â 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 Yoo) is just out of college when he bumps into...
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...