Two of the big three Academy Award contenders this year are about looking back on the early days of cinema itself. While Scorsese’s Hugo uses the latest technical whizzbangs to…
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Three films this week point the way towards possible futures for cinema - and if two of them are right then we should all find another hobby. Like Crazy is…
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I really enjoyed Alexander Payne’s The Descendants - at least while I was watching it. Some films will do that to you, though. They push all sorts of groovy buttons…
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The first Sione’s movie arrived in cinemas in 2006 - before I commenced this weekly catalogue of hits and misses - so I have to plead ignorance about the Duck…
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Time to clear the summer holiday backlog so that the next time it rains you’ll have an idea of what you should go and see. There’s plenty to choose from…
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Like students swotting for exams New Zealand film distributors seem to have run out of year for all the films they have to release so there are some really big…
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