Above the proscenium arch at the Embassy theatre, on either side of the screen, there are two flashing red lights. They've been there ever since the Return of the King…
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Mark Ravenhill on the curse of Robert McKee's "Story" (from The Guardian): Writer delivers script, goes in for meeting. "I'm missing the initiating incident on page 23," is a note…
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This week's Capital Times film review: Blades of Glory (Josh Gordon & Will Speck); Breakfast at Tiffany's (Blake Edwards); Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (Tim Story); Paris je…
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This week's Capital Times film review (lavishly illustrated) and in no particular order: SHREK THE THIRD (Chris Miller & Raman Hui); PIERREPOINT (Adrian Shergold); OCEAN'S 13 (Steven Soderbergh); BRIDGE TO…
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I got all excited about Rachel Weisz coming to Wellington to shoot the studio bits of The Lovely Bones until I saw the Reuters photo Stuff chose to illustrate the story:…
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In the amusingly mis-named German Democratic Republic, during the last years before the Berlin Wall fell and Germany was re-unified, the people were monitored for idealogical and political purity by…
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