Back in 1986 Frank Miller single-handedly reinvented the Batman franchise in book form with "The Dark Knight Returns", a four-part mini-series which saw an ageing Bruce Wayne come out of…
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Computer programmers have a concept called 'garbage collection' whereby useless and redundant items are automatically disposed of by 'the system'. We film reviewers don't have access to such technology, however,…
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The Film Festival has been a fixture of Wellington's winter calendar for nearly 40 years and for those of us who organise our lives around glowing rectangles of one kind…
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Two films this week made by screen legends whose careers have settled in to something a little less than their glorious past. Sidney Lumet was making television drama when it…
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The allotment is one of the United Kingdom's greatest achievements, unrepeated I believe anywhere else. In exchange for moving in to shoeboxes stacked upon each other the British poor were…
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I think we can safely call a halt to these semi-annual Hulk movies now - the new one is good enough that we can all move on (Ant-Man is evidently…
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