It may be playing in cinemas but I’m not entirely convinced that The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - and, by extension, the forthcoming Desolation of Smaug and There and Back…
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Someone described melodrama to me the other day as “unearned emotion” and that’s a helpful way to look at a few of this week’s offerings. Firstly the glossy adaptation of…
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Wellington’s first Roxy Cinema was either notorious or legendary depending on your point of view. Originally the Britannia on Manners Street, it was renamed the Roxy in 1935 and ran…
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While hunting the site for some links to add to the just posted Winter's Bone etc. review, I discovered that my Summer Holiday special hadn't made it here. So, for…
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Is it too early to suggest that we might be living in a golden age of cinema? Think of the filmmakers working in the commercial realm these days who have…
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It’s going to be a massive few months for Wellywood - District 9 seems to have come out of nowhere to take the world by storm (Currently #35 in the…
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