It's now Saturday morning in NYC and Telluride already seems like old news. Venice has just announced its prizewinners (The Master obv. - or not so obv.) and Toronto is…
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After a splendid Wellington Film Festival last year, the New Zealand International Film Festival might be forgiven for putting their feet up and taking it easy but instead they have…
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Prospective new migrants to New Zealand should be shown Ian Mune’s movie Billy T: Te Movie in order to weed out the uncommitted. Of course, we needn’t tell them that…
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For this year’s World Cinema Showcase preview I started with a list of all the films I wanted to see and then realised that I had used up my entire…
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It took well over 18 months for Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker to get a general release in New Zealand – a year in which it steadily built audiences and…
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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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