While the Film Festival continues to deliver untold pleasures to Wellington cinephiles, the commercial distributors dump (shall we say) less-heralded product at our currently very quiet multiplexes and arthouses. My…
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What is there left to say about Harry Potter films? It seems like only yesterday that I wrote of The Order of the Phoenix: "this Harry Potter is not a…
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Sacha Baron Cohen is, in this reviewer’s opinion, the most gifted comic actor of his generation - a new Peter Sellers for those of us who remember who Peter Sellers…
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Sign outside Video-Ezy in Newtown: For my review of Confessions of a Shopaholic ("A horrible, shallow, un-funny, rom-com with a mismatched pair of leads ...") click here and scroll down.
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I discovered a lovely Hollywood studio phrase the other day: execution dependent. It means a script that won’t make money unless good people are involved. This week’s films are the…
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After hits like Bad Boys and The Rock, as well as failures like The Island and Pearl Harbor, we all know that Michael Bay is better than any director alive…
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