Is Gravity the first really new film of the 21st Century? I hazard it may be. It is certainly the first to harness the bleeding edge of the current…
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Sandra Bullock and George Clooney are lost in space in Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity while Hugh Laurie teaches the kids of Bougainville about Charles Dickens in Andrew Adamson's Mr. Pip.
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With this year's festival now a rapidly diminishing memory - and my recovery from that event (plus another magazine published, some "live" podcast recordings, a few Q&A's, some director interviews…
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God is in the house this week. He turns up in the values of a wealthy Tennessee family who adopt a poor black kid and turn him into a champion,…
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It took well over 18 months for Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker to get a general release in New Zealand – a year in which it steadily built audiences and…
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Martin Scorsese isn’t just a legendary director, he is also one of the world’s great enthusiasts for cinema - the definitive cineaste if you will. By heading the World Cinema…
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