Apart from the inescapable need to carve out a meagre living from an uncaring world, one of the reasons why these weekly updates have been something less than, well, weekly…
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Now, I'm risking the ire of the extremely helpful and generous New Zealand International Film Festival team here, but I'm going to recommend an approach to festival-going that will probably…
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Update (2 Aug 2012): The unfinished screener of Song of the Kauri that I watched had a caption that stated that New Zealand imported more timber than it exported. It…
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I made the mistake of watching The Dark Knight Rises twice last week. The first time was entertaining enough, I suppose. The opening set-piece - in which a CIA renditions…
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I really don’t want much. It’s simple. All I ask is for someone with talent to take some of their life experience and merge it with that talent in the…
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Welcome to the 2010 “cut out and keep” guide to video renting (or downloading or however you consume your home entertainment these days). I suggest you clip this article, fold…
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