Wednesday, December 6, 2023

Movie Reviews

Popcorn flicks, action-adventure, rom-com, thriller, horror… basically if it’s not a festival film you’ll find it here. If it is, then it’s a Film Review. And sometimes… a movie is both…

Robin Greenberg

Robin Greenberg on Light, Ghosts and Grant Sheehan: Interview

Film director Robin Greenberg steps up to The 13th Floor to talk about her documentary Grant Sheehan: Light, Ghosts & Dreams, now playing at...
Oppenheimer

From Alfred To Barbie: The Film Festival is Everywhere So Dive In Deep

The 13th Floor's Marty Duda has been to a few films recently and its got him thinking. Always a dangerous precedent, here are a...
The Strangest Of Angels

Rebecca Tansley and The Strangest Of Angels: Interview

Rebecca Tansley has made a film that is part-drama/part opera and wholly based on the life of Kiwi writer Janet Frame. The Strangest Of...
Tiki Taane

Tiki Taane Talks About His New Film: In Session With CSO

Tiki Taane can now has filmmaker to his list of impressive achievements. Here he is talking about In Session With CSO, which will make...
Squaring The Circle

Squaring The Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis) Dir: Anton Corbijn (Film Review)

Classic rock nerds rejoice! Squaring the Circle takes you behind the scenes of the making of some of rocks most iconic album covers as...
King Loser

King Loser – Dir: Cushla Dillon & Andrew Moore (Film Review)

King Loser documents the ups and (mostly) downs of one of the greatest unknown and underappreciated bands of the nineties. When I moved to New...
Anatomy Of A Fall

Anatomy Of A Fall Dir: Justine Triet (Film Review)

Anatomy Of  A Fall kicked off this year’s New Zealand International Film Festival at Auckland’s beloved Civic Theatre. It’s a Palm d’Or winner that...
Little Richard

Little Richard: I Am Everything Dir: Lisa Cortés (Film Review)

Little Richard: I Am Everything, the title of this documentary about the self-proclaimed “architect of rock & roll" is anything but understated, just like...
Evil Dead Rise

New Movie Roundup: Evil Dead Rise, Shackleton & Paper Spiders

Evil Dead Rise finds new and graphic ways to kill but there’s torture of a different kind in Shackleton: The Greatest Story Of Survival...
The Pope's Exorcist

The Pope’s Exorcist Dir: Julius Avery (Film Review)

The Pope's Exorcist is a supernatural horror film directed by Julius Avery that is equal parts spooky and silly, starring Russell Crowe as Father...