The Film Festival has been a fixture of Wellington's winter calendar for nearly 40 years and for those of us who organise our lives around glowing rectangles of one kind…
Roger Ebert repeats an anecdote told him by Marcello Mastroianni about filming the famous Trevi Fountain splashabout in La Dolce Vita: "The water, it was-a very cold," He said. "Fellini,…
Two films this week made by screen legends whose careers have settled in to something a little less than their glorious past. Sidney Lumet was making television drama when it…
This morning I hustled across town to Radio NZ House on The Terrace to review Duncan Sarkies' new novel "Two Little Boys" for Nine to Noon. You can click here…
My friend Alex, honorary international judge for this year's 48 Hours (Wgtn) sent me a story: I met a guy who lives in isolated Indonesia and builds medical centres I…