!!!On The Screen Reviews

Premiering at the 2017 Cannes International Film Festival, writer/director Carine Tardieu’s new movie Just To Be Sure is a tale of familial and romantic love, dreams, hopes, secrets and lies. When lonely 45-year-old widower and...

Faces Places A documentary by Agnés Varda and JR Palace Cinema, Paddington. Love is the last saving grace of humanity. The storyteller’s art, documentary, allows us to tell stories of others as well as our...

What a tiptop cast writer-director Amanda Sthers has assembled for this French comedy. Ana (Toni Collette), the Madame of the house, is Harry's (Harvey Kietel's) second wife and they're hosting an important dinner party....

Con's Score: 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...

Con's Score: 3 Sunflowers This documentary has been put together by the Van Gough museum in Amsterdam and directed by an Australian David Bickerstaff. It a straight out factual production which steps through his life and...

Con's Score: 4 Flying Fairies In this latest National Theatre Live productions, we’re taken into the pit of ‘the round’ of the Bridge Theatre for one of Shakespeare’s funniest plays. And director Nicholas Hytner has...

Con's Score: 4 Blowtorches Once upon a time in Hollywood, movie stars were gods, the good guys always won and the bad guys snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. A lot of that gloss was...

"It’s so heartening to see a Sydney playwright make it on the international stage. It’s even more inspiring to see that the Australian public is responding, with sellout screenings already happening. And it’s not...

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 Especially, unpublished English teachers who have their mediocrity reflected back at them.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:2 Witches hats A horror film with a strong female cast is an alluring prospect when you consider how well the original film was received. Writer-Director Luca Guadagnino (Call Me by Your Name) has cast...