Regular and attentive readers to this column will know that I heartily endorse membership of the Film Society as the best value cinema-going in town. For example, a few weeks…
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I use movie posters here to illustrate my reviews, not for aesthetic reasons for the most part, but to use as markers (so readers can easily find their way to…
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For years I’ve been complaining about films that give audiences everything on a plate - they tell what you should be thinking and feeling, leaving no room for us. This…
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If aliens have been looking down on Earth, watching us with love and amusement over the last few million years (as so many movies have told us they are), they…
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As the recent fuss over The Vintner’s Luck demonstrated, filmmakers adapting beloved New Zealand books open themselves up to all sorts of potential criticism, so when Jonathan King and Matthew…
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All over the world it is volunteer organisations like the Wellington Film Society that keep the flame of film art alive so that cinephiliacs like me can get a decent…
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