Back to the big screen in May
I suppose every month of cinema releases can boast being ‘something for everyone’, but this month it really does appear to be justified. First up, on Sunday 3 May, is […]
To end all wars
Vera Brittain’s memoir Testament of Youth is a heart-rending lesson about the First World War and its effects. As you read, gobsmacked by the forces that swoop in and pluck […]
Allez la France!
In 2003’s Swimming Pool, François Ozon seductively blurred realism with psychological archetypes, the film’s composition, colours and landscape putting an exquisite pressure on Charlotte Rampling’s blocked English author to let […]
Join the club
Late last year, the entertainment giant Netflix announced that they would be bringing their video-streaming service to New Zealand and Australia. From March they will be competing with Quickflix, Lightbox […]
Crowe does not disappoint
Strathmore’s finest son, Russell ‘Rusty’ Crowe, has been around film sets and worked alongside good, average and bad directors now for nearly 25 years, so it comes as no surprise […]
November highlights
INTERSTELLAR (Christopher Nolan) Opens 6 November: The latest in Nolan’s non-Dark Knight, ‘I’ films (Insomnia and Inception count towards the superstition), this one is a full-blown sci-fi adventure with a […]
Bella
The parade of film festivals goes on, continuing to bring Wellington film fans a selection of the hundreds of films made and released all over the world every year. The […]
Two kinds of heroine
In Gerard Johnstone’s tightly put together comedy-chiller Housebound, Morgana O’Reilly plays rebel-without-a-cause Kylie, forced by a judge to spend nine months of home detention with a mother she detests in […]
New dogs, old tricks
The southern California of Gia Coppola’s debut feature Palo Alto seems idyllic on the surface. Long hot summer days, teenage freedom and limitless possibility, but it soon becomes apparent that […]
Cold Climate
Al Barry has been the conscience of New Zealand documentary-making for over 40 years. In 1973, he sailed to Mururoa with his camera to record the protests over French nuclear […]
