For years I’ve been complaining about films that give audiences everything on a plate - they tell what you should be thinking and feeling, leaving no room for us. This…
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If aliens have been looking down on Earth, watching us with love and amusement over the last few million years (as so many movies have told us they are), they…
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As the recent fuss over The Vintner’s Luck demonstrated, filmmakers adapting beloved New Zealand books open themselves up to all sorts of potential criticism, so when Jonathan King and Matthew…
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All over the world it is volunteer organisations like the Wellington Film Society that keep the flame of film art alive so that cinephiliacs like me can get a decent…
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Following the surprise success of Second Hand Wedding in 2008, screenwriter Nick Ward and director Paul Murphy have been given a vastly improved budget and access to two international stars…
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In these days when capitalism seems like the cause of all our problems rather than the solution to them, it is more than educational to read the latest letter to…
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