The most pleasure I have had in a cinema so far this year wasn’t at a film. In 2011, the New York Philharmonic produced a brief concert revival of Stephen…
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Anyone wondering whether the great Pedro Almodóvar had lost some of his edge at the ripe old age of 62 should immediately check out his new film The Skin I…
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Every week on Cinematica - the movie podcast I co-host with Simon Werry and Kailey Carruthers - we sign-off each film with a two-word review. It’s a gag, of course,…
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After a splendid Wellington Film Festival last year, the New Zealand International Film Festival might be forgiven for putting their feet up and taking it easy but instead they have…
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For this writer, the 9/11 terrorist attacks were the defining global event of my lifetime. It was the day when anything became possible - even the utterly unthinkable. It was…
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This week Philip Seymour Hoffman features in two new American sports movies, one about their most venerable - if not impenetrable - pastime of baseball and the other on the…
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