Feel like visiting somewhere new but don’t have the time or money right now? A film festival is the next best thing. If you want to understand a country and…
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The best way I can think of to sum up Jobs, the hastily-prepared not-quite adaptation of Walter Isaacson's hastily-published biography of the Apple co-founder, is that its subject would have…
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There has been much discussion in the circles in which I move about the quantity of films released to local cinemas. Not only are there too many films coming out…
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Still hovering around some local cinemas - and the longest-delayed of all my outstanding reviews - Still Mine is a surprisingly effective Canadian drama about an elderly man (James Cromwell,…
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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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Now, I'm risking the ire of the extremely helpful and generous New Zealand International Film Festival team here, but I'm going to recommend an approach to festival-going that will probably…
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