It's one of those rare sunny Saturday afternoons in Wellington and I have work to do. But I'm not going to do that work because it doesn't look like much…
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Lee Daniels' The Butler is a Black history lesson set in the White House, novelist Cormac McCarthy teams up with Ridley Scott to make a conundrum called The Counselor and…
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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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Roger Ebert writing about writing (and speaking) at his blog: The novel is written entirely with that attention. You haven't even started it until you've started it the second time.…
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No Country for Old Men is essential cinema in two senses of the word. First and foremost you must see it, probably more than once. But it is also cinema…
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