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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]