Between its heralded US release in September last year and its arrival in a (very) limited number of New Zealand cinemas this weekend, Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master seems to…
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For this writer, the 9/11 terrorist attacks were the defining global event of my lifetime. It was the day when anything became possible - even the utterly unthinkable. It was…
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For years now I’ve been fighting a single-handed defence of the later career of Robert De Niro (no defence, of course, being necessary for the early career which featured Mean…
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Of all directors currently working in the Hollywood mainstream Michael Mann is arguably the greatest stylist. No one at the multiplex has more control of the pure aesthetics of filmmaking,…
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You’ll often find me railing against the Hollywood machine in these pages - the lifeless and cynical, the focus-grouped and beta-tested, the bandwagon jumping and the shark jumping - so…
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