Non-review
This is the column I submitted to the Capital Times last week. After a little…
Dan SlevinSeptember 16, 2008
Review: Then She Found Me, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Mrs. Ratcliffe’s Revolution, The Ten Commandments, [REC] and The Third Richard
It's babies everywhere in the cinemas at the moment. Last week I reviewed the Tina…
Dan SlevinSeptember 6, 2008
Review: Tropic Thunder, Baby Mama and Paris
You can forget all talk of an Oscar for Heath Ledger's Joker. If anyone is…
Dan SlevinSeptember 3, 2008
Review: Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Wanted and two more ...
From the first bars of John Williams' famous fanfare, played on a 1000 kazoos, you…
Dan SlevinAugust 23, 2008
Review: The Bank Job, The Edge of Heaven, Charlie Bartlett, Apron Strings and Prague
One of the pitfalls you try and avoid in this gig is reviewing the film…
Dan SlevinAugust 19, 2008
Review: Forgetting Sarah Marshall, The X-Files: I Want to Believe, Closing the Ring, Smart People, Married Life, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day and Journey From the Fall
Forgetting Sarah Marshall is an ideal post-Festival palate cleanser: a saucy comedy fresh off the…
Dan SlevinAugust 12, 2008
Review: The Dark Knight
Back in 1986 Frank Miller single-handedly reinvented the Batman franchise in book form with "The…
Dan SlevinAugust 8, 2008
Review: Hancock, Meet Dave, Mamma Mia! and The Love Guru
Computer programmers have a concept called 'garbage collection' whereby useless and redundant items are automatically…
Dan SlevinJuly 29, 2008
2008 Film Festival preview
The Film Festival has been a fixture of Wellington's winter calendar for nearly 40 years…
Dan SlevinJuly 16, 2008