Most films go in one eye and out the other but some stick in your brain and won’t leave – for better or worse. John Hillcoat’s adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s…
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Sigourney Weaver in Esquire’s What I’ve Learned: I volunteered to serve food to the workers at Ground Zero after 9/11. There were dogs trained to find living people. The people…
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This week, as part of the general rebirth of Funerals & Snakes, I'm proud to unveil a new masthead: Designed by renowned Wellington graphic designer and hand-lettering artist Sarah Maxey,…
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Crikey. The last post was sent up here on the 9th of April. I'm sure most readers have long given up on seeing anything new here but I haven't. Here's…
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Stars are important. Despite their supposedly waning influence on box office (Avatar managed perfectly well without a marquee name and Bruce Willis hasn’t carried a hit film in years) the…
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In October 1975, the obscure little Portuguese colony of East Timor was given independence after 400 years of European rule. A mixed Melanesian/Polynesian population was sitting on rich mineral and…
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