This week’s illustrated Capital Times film review: Eagle vs Shark (Taika Waititi); Ten Canoes (Rolf de Heer, Peter Djigirr); Die Hard 4.0 (Len Wiseman); Destiny in Motion (Peter Bell); I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (Dennis Dugan); Sicko (Michael Moore).
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This week’s Capital Times film review (as submitted). Completed in a hurry this morning, I expect the printed version to be shorter and better…
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This week’s Capital Times column. No reviews due to the Christmas break, instead a preview of a few titles to expect in 2007.
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Why is this man smiling? “Er, Victoria, a pigeon’s just crapped on my shoulder.” Presenting the first of my weekly (weakly?) lists of stuff I’ve stumbled across via the web over the last seven days. Firstly, it is unlikely that I will be purchasing the new red England away top despite my being a prime […]
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Dan Slevin is a New Zealand-based writer, broadcaster and consultant. He has reviewed cinema for the Capital Times weekly newspaper since September 2006, seeing and reviewing every film commercially released in Wellington in that time (except, for some reason, Flicka or Beverly Hills Chihuahua).
Dan is a regular contributor to Radio New Zealand National’s Nine to Noon programme and produces and co-hosts the weekly movie podcast, Cinematica.
In addition to being the finest swordsman in all France, he is also the meanest hombre west of the Pecos. He tweets here.
Why Funerals & Snakes? In Jean-Luc Godard’s Contempt (Le Mépris; 1963), Fritz Lang said of CinemaScope: “It’s only good for funerals and snakes.”