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Cinematica: Bite Me!

By Audio, Cinema, Cinematica

Cinematica logoIt’s over a week since the last time I pub­lished a Cinematica pod­cast update and we’ve recor­ded and released two epis­odes since then.

Last week (22 November) we spoke to Gerard Smyth, dir­ect­or of When a City Falls about his doc­u­ment­ary and life in shud­dery Christchurch. You can listen to that epis­ode here:

In that show we also evis­cer­ate Twilight but talk up Project Nim.

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Review: Twilight- Breaking Dawn part 1, Project Nim, The Whistleblower and Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

By Cinema, Reviews

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn posterThere are now four films in the Twilight “saga” which means I’ve spent 493 minutes in the Twilight uni­verse, at least 492 of them wish­ing I was some­where else. The latest epis­ode, Breaking Dawn Part 1 fol­lows the Harry Potter strategy of not sep­ar­at­ing uncom­plain­ing fools from their money once when you can do so twice, and thank­fully is the least rot­ten of the four films.

All of the “will they, won’t they” non­sense has been lead­ing to this so – at least nar­rat­ively speak­ing – they are finally get­ting on with it. After the longest wed­ding scene in cinema his­tory – of films that don’t have the word ‘wed­ding’ in the title – Bella (Kristen Stewart) and Edward (Robert Pattinson) head off to a remote Brazilian island to play chess on the beach and con­sumate their relationship.

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