Despite my positive review for TT3D last week, I’m not a huge motorsport fan. In 1996 I worked on the last Nissan Mobil 500 race around the waterfront and couldn’t…
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After years of auteur theory we have become conditioned to describe films as products of their director and so in my first draft of this review I started off talking…
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I’ve been busy over the last few weeks working on New Zealand’s biggest participatory film event, the V 48 Hours which reaches its local climax tonight at the Embassy Theatre.…
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Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire was my film of the year for 2009 - a potent and punchy roller-coaster ride of a film that made everything for months afterwards seem quaintly…
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For those readers tuned into these things, clear evidence emerged this week of the ‘end of days’ and our impending annihilation - culturally at least. Simply put, Twilight: Eclipse is…
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Turkish-German director Fatih Akin has long been an arthouse favourite around these parts. Head-On (2004) and The Edge of Heaven (2007) were Festival successes so it was odd to see…
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