Special guests Darren Bevan, Dominic Corry, Graeme Tuckett and Chris Hormann on the just-launched NZIFF programme, 11-year-old Sebastian Macaulay on Disney's Million Dollar Arm (starring Jon Hamm and written by Thomas McCarthy) and…
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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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Eat Pray Love is what they used to call, in the old days, a “women’s picture” and the advertisers who have paid good money to annoy audiences before the film…
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Jon Hamm ("Mad Men") describes the life of a not-very-successful Hollywood actor in The Guardian: And there's this hideous thing they make you do when you go up for a…
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Finally, we have a week with only one new film in it: a chance for me to stretch my legs, extemporise, riff a little, get my hands dirty. Yeah, I've…
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