!!!On The Screen Reviews

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...

In this high energy, cringe-while-you-laugh buddy film of the Winter, Jackie van Beek and Madeleine Sami write, direct and star in the story of two flawed women who run a business devoted to speeding...

Alastair's Score: 2/5 From the beginning, Antoine Fuqua’s Equalizer 2 is an exercise in contradictions. This is the first time for both Fuqua and Denzel Washington making a sequel and in an attempt to avoid...

Jonathan Ames and Lynne Ramsay on any credit list guarantee a dynamic duo of narrative storytelling. One is a prolific crime-fiction author-cum-exhibitionist, and the other is one of the most masterful and thoughtful filmmakers...