Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
Grin and bear it. PADDINGTON is the best teddy bear picture since Ted.
Kudos in the cute and cuddly big screen adaptation of Michael Bond’s beloved creation must go to writer/director Paul King who has not only written a …
Bulrushes is right. Bushels of bullshit, you’d need the wings of an angel to stay above it.
Christian Bale outplays Charlton Heston as Moses, who led his people into the Red.
Joel Edgerton plays Rameses in Yul Brynner mode, the …
SITCO’s swan song as stewards of The Old Fitzroy theatre space is an apt one.
The end of an era is marked by a double bill of one act plays about colourful characters from the Kings Cross area that are …
Like some ill-conceived spawn of Rupert Pupkin, the crazed comic stalker from Marty Scorsese’s The King of Comedy, Louis Bloom, the “spanning the spectrum” psycho protagonist of NIGHTCRAWLER, is a full blown passive aggressive whose soft spoken and polite …
Directed by Jeremy Whelehan and produced by Kevin Spacey, the feature length documentary, NOW: IN THE WINGS ON A WORLD STAGE, reveals intimate behind the scenes moments as actor Kevin Spacey, director Sam Mendes and a troupe of over fifty …
It was inevitable that Graeme Blundell would follow up his biography of Graham Kennedy with a companion piece on Bert Newton.
Simply called BERT, it’s a bright and breezy biography that’s a celebration of a survivor.
From the age of …
You know you’re in cheerful, cheeky company when ROCK THE CASBAH eschews the song of the same name by The Clash in favour of the theme song to The Road to Morocco by Bob Hope and Bing Crosby to open …
Arguably the best Kiwi drama since ‘Once Were Warriors’, THE DARK HORSE is an inspirational tale that checkmates hairy chested tormentors with hairy chess tournaments.
THE DARK HORSE is an inspiring true story based on the life of a charismatic, …
Fifty film luminaries are asked the question, “What do you love about the movies?” in the handsome and must have (if you love movies) tome, WHAT I LOVE ABOUT MOVIES (Faber and Faber).
From fifty famed film professionals we get …
When Sherlock Holmes and his arch nemesis Moriarty fell to their doom at the Reichenbach Falls, a vacuum on both sides of the criminal nexus was created.
Who would become England’s greatest consultant detective and who would become the new …