My normal, equable, approach to Hollywood blockbuster product has been upset this week by the news that, in a decision of quite breathtaking cynicism, Warner Bros. are going to split…
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This pic is from the newly re-vamped Sky City Cinemas web site and shows the dramatic impact of choosing the wrong lens to photograph a cinema screen. As Wellingtonians know,…
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Terence Rafferty on Godard's "radiant, ambiguous, serenely perverse" classic and it's new revival in New York: The greatness of “Contempt” is that Mr. Godard is not, finally, nostalgic for the…
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Satirist George Saunders speaking at the Brooklyn Academy of Music back in January: He aims to “take his reader by the shirt and fling him; you send him 15 feet…
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A comment from a Guardian over-by-over reader on Steve Harmison's surprisingly candid interview with Nasser Hussain during the First Test: "Is Harmison going to try his nuts off and hold…
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Hilary Swank’s new twin-hanky romance P.S., I Love You is a remarkable achievement. In all my years of cinema-going I don’t think I have ever seen a film get more…
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