At the Cannes Film Festival of 2008, the closing night film was Wim Wenders' Palermo Shooting, a pictorially extravagant botch that had most critics, including the group that I had…
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I just got back from reviewing a couple of films for RNZ National's Nine to Noon show: (500) Days of Summer and An Education. You can listen to the item…
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Whatever I, or you, or the person next to you, or whoever occurs to you to think of, is thinking right now, I imagine it's not really got much on…
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Another bombshell I missed over the weekend: the revelation of an unusual affinity I have with, yup, Nikki FInke. On Saturday she averred that David Cronenberg's "enigmatic adaptation of J.G.…
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...is probably not going to be sufficient. However, due to certain personal promises I've made, I am enjoined from saying much of anything about the latest intertubes kerfuffle that occurred…
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The romantic comedy is moribund. The first traces of its demise can be dated to the turn of the millenium, when Hugh Grant decided that he didn’t really want to…
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