I've just got home from watching The Day the Earth Stood Still at the Empire in Island Bay. It has several shortcomings (which I'll cover off in the review later…
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Two hitmen (Gleeson and the excellent Colin Farrell) have been sent to the sleepy Belgian town of Bruges to lie low after a job has gone wrong. Once there, they…
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Oh, what kind of year is 2008 that has two Coen Brothers films within it? In February I was swooning over No Country for Old Men and now, just a…
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Computer programmers have a concept called 'garbage collection' whereby useless and redundant items are automatically disposed of by 'the system'. We film reviewers don't have access to such technology, however,…
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Earlier this year I arbitrarily decided that the Hannah Montana 3D concert movie was not cinema and chose not to review it. Now, a few short weeks later, I exercise…
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When the current Writer-in-Residence at Victoria University's Institute of Modern Letters suggested I take another look at my negative review of Blades of Glory, I made a promise that (while…
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