A few weeks ago I got a strange email (apparently from myself) saying that this blog had been hacked and was unsecure. Sure enough, several posts had hidden html code…
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When the current Writer-in-Residence at Victoria University's Institute of Modern Letters suggested I take another look at my negative review of Blades of Glory, I made a promise that (while…
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In past columns this reviewer has pretty much unilaterally labelled 27 year old Ryan Gosling as the new Marlon Brando (thanks to extraordinary performances in Half Nelson and The Believer)…
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For many reasons (mostly to do with my love of cover versions) I find this artwork by Evan Shaner to be immensely pleasurable:
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Well, the Stuff.co.nz web site anyway (Hamish McDouall's cricket blog to be precise): Here is my friend Dan, seething with volcanic energy, about the Napier test: “I’m still furious about…
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In 1997 two young hotshots stunned the film world by winning an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for their first produced script. Since then, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck have…
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