For its first hour or so, The Devil, Probably, Robert Bresson's 1977 film, seems like the most difficult of the inimitable master's works, for the most banal of reasons: that…
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The talk here of The Dark Knight has, in comments, led to talk of the next really big superhero movie/graphic novel adaptation, Zack Snyder's Watchmen, based on the book by…
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So lately I've been seeing quite a bit on the intertubes about this vacuous starlet from this ghastly television show "Gossip Girls" whose success on said show is apparently going…
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My review of The Dark Knight—with concomitant musings on the state of our culture, just for fun!—is over at The Auteur's Notebook. Here are a couple of tastes: "This may…
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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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SCENE THE FIRST Early winter, 1968. 26 Ranger Road, Dumont, New Jersey GLENN KENNY, nine years old, is sitting at the dining room table, poring over the Grove Press "film…
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