!!!On The Screen Reviews

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...

Adina Pintilie’s first feature gained attention this year after leaving Berlinale with the coveted Golden Bear. Despite many eyes on it. Touch Me Not is a film that evades a category. At a push...

Con's Score: 3.5 Hot Flushes Aurora is a single woman who’s just hit fifty, menopause, her new boss is a tosser who wants to call her Samantha (because it’s sexier), one daughter is pregnant and...

Con's Score: 3.5 Rides This Uruguayan film breaks a lot of repressive taboos in its look at the bourgeois and women in Uruguan society. The fact they’re lesbians is almost incidental. Chela (Ana Brun) and Chiquita...

Con's Score: 4 Diapers I’m not a parent but the appeal of Jason Reitman and Diablo Cody (writer of Juno) coming together with Charlize Therone is hard to resist, even if the topic didn’t appeal. Charlize...

This is an adaptation of the Tim Winton novel which Simon Baker took a big liking to. He’s one of the producers, the director, a lead character, and he even gave himself a writing...

This intriguing Russian film was a Best Foreign Language Film nominee at the Academy Awards and a Jury Prize winner at Cannes amongst other film festival awards. Zhanya and Boris (such great names for a...

We’ve had plenty of ‘war is hell’ movies, so it’s good in this post-Iraq age we start to see the effects of the aftermath before we rush into any more ill advised conflicts. And...

I love a good music documentary, where we delve into the drama behind the scenes, the motivations behind the artist and enjoy the fruits of their artistic talents. ‘Amy’ left us enraged; ‘Whitney’ was...

You have to love a great drawing room play, and don’t the English know how to write one. Put a rich array of characters into a room, shake it up, and then watch them...