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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I can imagine some people not enjoying The World's End. People who don't care about - or even notice - cinematic craftsmanship, people who think that being self-referential means being…
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As is so often the case at this time of year (usually related to 48 Hours commitments) I am a little behind on my reviewing. This weekend I caught up…
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Man of Steel is a self-consciously epic re-imagining of the Superman story, first told in print in the 1930s and most recently rebooted on screen by Bryan Singer as Superman…
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Bloodless zombies would appear to be that latest trend if April’s Warm Bodies and this week’s World War Z are anything to go by. No blood means studios get a…
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