Your correspondent is a big fan of young English director Edgar Wright. His first two features, in collaboration with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, were the redoubtably entertaining Shaun of…
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Taika Waititi’s Boy may well be the saddest comedy I’ve ever seen. Hmn, maybe I should put that another way: For a comedy, Boy might be the saddest film I’ve…
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The unhappy bard of Hawera, Ronald Hugh Morrieson, died in the sure and certain knowledge of his own failure. Only one of his four novels had been published (and only…
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Indulge me for a minute - it’s Christmas. Back when I was a little nipper, me and some mates took a rare trip into the City (“Up London” we called…
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If I had to use a four letter word starting in 'S' and ending in 'T' to describe the new Angelina Jolie thriller, Salt wouldn’t be the first word I…
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Forgetting Sarah Marshall was one of the surprise pleasures of 2008. An Apatow comedy that was relatively modest about it’s ambitions it featured a break-out performance from English comedian Russell…
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