Illness has forced me to miss the final week of this year's Film Festival, which is somewhat disappointing but hasn't stopped me from thinking about next year. My wish list…
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Martin Scorsese isn’t just a legendary director, he is also one of the world’s great enthusiasts for cinema - the definitive cineaste if you will. By heading the World Cinema…
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I can just imagine the Monday morning when a development executive stumbled across the script of The Hangover. It wouldn’t have taken him long to realise that he’d discovered modern…
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The Wellington Film Festival (sorry, New Zealand International Film Festival, Wellington Branch) is a huge undertaking for the committed cinema-goer. Every year we devour the programme for weeks in advance,…
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Review: Terminator Salvation, Love the Beast, Fugitive Pieces, JCVD and In Search of a Midnight Kiss
’Tis the season to reboot tired franchises and this week we get an explosive new look at James Cameron’s beloved Terminator. Set only nine years in the future (when open-air…
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It’s a little known fact in the movie industry that most cinema releases serve no greater purpose than to provide some advance publicity for an inevitable DVD release. This week…
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