Still hovering around some local cinemas - and the longest-delayed of all my outstanding reviews - Still Mine is a surprisingly effective Canadian drama about an elderly man (James Cromwell,…
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Last time we saw Tom Cruise he was known as Jack Reacher. Now, in Oblivion, his name is Jack Harper. What range! What diversity! You’d hardly recognise him. Harper is…
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Andrew Dominik was born in Wellington but shipped out at the age of two for Australia. We really need to claim him back as he’s one of the most intriguing…
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Three films this week point the way towards possible futures for cinema - and if two of them are right then we should all find another hobby. Like Crazy is…
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Expat Kiwi auteur Andrew Niccol (Gattaca) somehow always manages to tap in to the zeitgeist and with new sci-fi thriller In Time his own timing is almost spookily perfect. A…
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Michael Winterbottom’s The Trip is the best picture about middle-aged male angst since Sideways, and it’s possibly even better than that fine film. Two privileged English celebrities spend a week…
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