The Last Thing Mary Saw Dir: Edoardo Vitaletti (Shudder)
The Last Thing Mary Saw will seep under your skin like blood from under a door.
The Matrix Resurrections – Director: Lana Wachowski: Film Review
The Matrix Resurrections – Director, Lana Wachowski Starring: Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Jessica Henwick, Neil Patrick Harris Eighteen years after the “last” Matrix film and 22 years after the much-lauded first Matrix film comes The Matrix Resurrections. So let us roll away the stone and see if this resurrection is worth getting excited about.
The Beatles – Get Back: Days 17-22 Dir: Peter Jackson
The end is in sight! Peter Jackson’s nearly-8-hour epic comes to a close and The Beatles head for the rooftop in this third instalment of the Get Back mini-series.
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band – The Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concert
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band are captured at the height of their powers on this show recorded over two nights Madison Square Garden in September of 1979.
The Beatles – Get Back: Days 8-16 Dir: Peter Jackson
We continue down the long and winding road of Peter Jackson’s Get Back with episode two. At a brisk 2 hours and 52 minutes, this one covers Days 8-16 in The Beatles’ march to the rooftop.
The Beatles – Get Back Dir: Peter Jackson
It’s finally here! The much anticipated/hyped documentary based around the mostly-unseen footage shot of The Beatles making their Let It Be album/film is now available to stream on Disney+. Having watched the first of the three “episodes”, here are my initial thoughts.
The 13th Floor Halloween Spooktacular with Oxford Lamoureaux
Greetings Ghouls and Goblins! Welcome to your (Friday) The 13th Floor Halloween Spooktacular – where your local spooky film critic is going to take a trip through time to discuss the best skin-crawling, panic-inducing, and squeamishly horrifying films you can subject your eyeballs to this Halloween.
The Velvet Underground Dir: Todd Haynes: Film Review
The Velvet Underground, Todd Haynes’ documentary about the iconic band, is very much like the music itself…at times hypnotic, dazzling, confounding and beautiful.
The Ice Road – Directed by Jonathan Hensleigh: Movie Review
The Ice Road is a slow-burn action-thriller written and directed by Jonathan Hensleigh, set on the treacherous ice roads of Manitoba, Canada. It arrives with a solid cast and enough middle-of-the-road action enjoyment to haul the audience across the film’s 109-minute finish line without sinking under the weight of its story.
A Fracking Tour of Taranaki – Film Premiere
A Fracking Tour of Taranaki part of Someday Stories Series 5 Film premieres at 11am, Monday 20 September
Movie Review: Pig – Directed by Michael Sarnoski
Pig is a deliciously paced and visceral thriller drama co-written and directed by Michael Sarnoski in his directorial debut, starring Nicolas Cage, Alex Wolff and Adam Arkin.
Movie Review: Queen Bees Directed by Michael Lembeck
Queen Bees a funny, poignant rom-com set in a posh elder-care facility, boasting a remarkable cast of aged A-listers, who carry the gentle script and deliver a tender end of life love story.
Film Review: The Justice Of Bunny King Dir: Gaysorn Thavat
Starring Essie Davis, Thomasin McKenzie, Ryan O’Kane What’s the cliché? If you see one film this year…well, for most New Zealanders, The Justice Of Bunny King should be required viewing.
Film Review: Warrior Queen Directed by Swati Bhise
Warrior Queen director Swati Bhise‘s vision over-reaches her budget in this heartfelt biopic of the legendary Rani Lakshmibai, who led an uprising against the notorious East India Company.
Film Review: The Misfits Dir: Renny Harlin
The Misfits is a soulless, 94-minute advertisement posing as a generic heist film, stuffed with clichés, weak dialogue, and hollow, mass-produced style that abandons qualitative substance to achieve nothing more than a glossy, propaganda-laden show-reel for its B-grade actors. Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Rami Jaber, Hermoine Corfield, Tim Roth
Movie Review: Juniper Directed by Matthew J. Saville
Juniper is a film family drama written and directed by Matthew J. Saville, exploring death, suicide, grief, alcoholism, mortality and the burdens passed on and created through complex family dynamics and substance abuse.
Movie Review: The Godmother Directed by Jean-Paul Salomé
The Godmother, also known as Mama Weed and La Daronne, is a light crime-dramedy from France, starring Isabelle Huppert as a police interpreter whose compassion drives her head-first into an ever-escalating drug empire.
Film Review: Collective Dir: Alexander Nanau (DocPlay)
Nominated for two Academy Awards, Collective is available to stream from today on DocPlay.
Film Review: Deliver Us From Evil Dir: Hong Won-chan
A thrilling, violent, and sometimes tender film, Deliver Us From Evil is a story of innocence; how it is lost and given away, and what we will do to protect it within those we love. Starring: Hwang Jung-min, Lee Jung-jae, Park Jung-min, Choi Hee-seo, Park So-yi, Song Young-chang, Lee Seo-hwan
Film Review: The Conjuring 3 – The Devil Made Me Do It
The Conjuring 3 – The third film in The Conjuring core series discards the simple claustrophobic basements of ‘70s and ‘80s America for grander sets and story, but fails to execute on its many tension-building threads throughout. Starring: Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga, Ruairi O’Connor, Sarah Catherine Hook, Julian Hilliard, John Noble, Eugenie Bondurant