The D4 & Schizophonics – Powerstation: March 18, 2023
The D4 are back and they rocked The Powerstation with some serious help from The Schizophonics. Andra Jenkin and Ivan Karczewski bring you words and pictures.
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Movie Review: Cousins, Directed by Ainsley Gardiner and Briar Grace Smith
Intensely sad, but sublimely beautiful, Cousins is a story of the psychological trauma to human life and community wrought by colonisation in Aotearoa.
Film Review: Amundsen Dir: Espen Sandberg
Starring: Pål Sverre Hagen, Katherine Waterston, Christian Rubeck At the turn of the twentieth century Roald Amundsen (played by Pål Sverre Hagen) appreciated the risks of extreme weather conditions in the polar regions, and how the region’s indigenous peoples survived such conditions.
Film Review: Words On Bathroom Walls Dir: Thor Freudenthal
Starring: Charlie Plummer, Andy Garcia, AnnaSophia Robb, Taylor Russell “A person with an illness is not the illness itself” is repeated throughout Words On Bathroom Walls, a YA film about a teenager living with schizophrenia. This message is tempered with the painful reality that those living with mental illness are perceived and treated quite differently […]
Film Review: Baby Done Dir: Curtis Vowell
Starring: Rose Matafeo, Matthew Lewis, Emily Barclay, Madeleine Sami Having recently watched Rose Matafeo’s HBO Max stand-up special Horndog I was super excited for Baby Done, the latest NZ comedy directed by Curtis Vowell and written by Sophie Henderson. I wasn’t disappointed. No surprises that Taika Waititi is an Executive Producer on the film.
Film Review: Driveways (NZIFF 2020)
How well do we really know our family? The sibling we haven’t spent much time with in adulthood but who we think of as being the same person we knew as a child, how do we reconcile realising we don’t know much about them at all? Driveways opens to single mum Kathy (Hong Chau) and […]
Film Review: The County (NZIFF 2020)
“It’s the Co-op that keeps the community alive, you should know that,” states one farmer to another as they square off under the umbrella of a harsh Icelandic sky. The County tells the story of one woman’s audacity to take on the powerful who hold the means of her financial survival in their ledgers, camouflaged […]
Movie Review: This Town
This Town is the latest film by New Zealand writer and director David White, an absurdist mockumentary comedy set in a fictional small NZ town. It has Robyn Malcolm as Pam, an ex-cop, belting out potential evidence on her trusty dot matrix from her garage office. Director: David White Cast: David White, Robyn Malcolm, Rima Te Wiata
Film Review: Girl on the Bridge (NZIFF 2020)
“They’re your friends, they’re your family, they’re your colleagues, they’re your neighbours,” states Jazz Thornton, referring to those suffering to a point in which they have given up on life. The Girl on the Bridge, a NZ documentary directed by Leanne Pooley, follows Jazz as she puts together a web series inspired by the story […]
Film Review: Paradise Drifters (NZIFF)
Paradise Drifters is a study of the physical and psychological impacts of homelessness on youth. Written and directed by Mees Peijnenburg, this Dutch film follows three such young adults as they cross paths.