As I sit here typing, I can hear the sounds of a Wellington summer all around me - the rain pouring on to the deck outside and the wind howling…
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I’ve been watching reactions to other people’s “Best of 2011” with interest. It’s fascinating to see online commentors insist that films they have seen are so much better than films…
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Genius filmmaker Mike Leigh has been on a bit of an up and down streak in recent years. 2002’s All or Nothing was wonderful, Vera Drake (2004) I found frustratingly…
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Of all directors currently working in the Hollywood mainstream Michael Mann is arguably the greatest stylist. No one at the multiplex has more control of the pure aesthetics of filmmaking,…
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Clint Eastwood has been on our screens for over 50 years and at 78 years old he has decided to call it a day and his valedictory performance in Gran…
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Never having seen an episode of Sex and the City on television, I'll have to leave it to others to place it in context. From what I can gather, though,…
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