I'd like to think of Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler as a kind of grand metaphor for America, a bankrupt and exhausted old culture, coasting to the finish line on the…
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You’ll often find me railing against the Hollywood machine in these pages - the lifeless and cynical, the focus-grouped and beta-tested, the bandwagon jumping and the shark jumping - so…
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A friend of mine auditioned for Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (produced in Auckland in 2006) and didn't get a part. I was pleased to report to him yesterday that…
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It’s all about the adaptations this week and contender number one is a film that deserves all the attention it has been receiving, even though it falls well short of…
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My favourite post-Oscars quote came from David Thomson in The Guardian: “When the Slumdog mob – Europeans and Indians, adults and kids – took the stage to claim the best…
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Strange as it may seem but reviewers are people too and, like the rest of you ordinary folk, we have blind spots and mine is horror. Back when I was…
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