It’s nice to be reminded every now and then that going to to the movies is supposed to be fun. The first Kung Fu Panda film was a boisterous and…
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Despite the shocking and inexplicable decision to omit Patrick Keiller’s Robinson in Ruins from this year’s Film Festival (a disaster applicable only to me I think) the actual line-up is…
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Transformers: Dark of the Moon had the best teaser trailer of the year: a brilliantly suspenseful recreation of the first Moon landing and the Apollo 11 crew’s discovery of a…
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When I first visited this country back in 1982 we flew across the Pacific Ocean in daylight and from my window seat I got a birds eye view of ……
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After years of auteur theory we have become conditioned to describe films as products of their director and so in my first draft of this review I started off talking…
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I just got in from a blustery journey to Radio New Zealand to appear on (what we used to call) the Concert Programme to talk about this year's Film Festival.…
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