The New Zealand International Film Festival opens in Auckland today. Films serve a myriad of purposes…to entertain, to thrill, to inform and to stimulate thoughtful discussion. Raoul Peck’s documentary, I Am Not Your Negro, based on the writings of James Baldwin, is a film that will quite possibly change your life.
Starring: Head Like A Hole The New Zealand International Film Festival is nearly upon us and for many, the real drawing card is the music documentaries that are regularly on offer. This year is no exception with two of them being local productions. One is about Bill Direen, and the other is the story […]
Starring: Tom Holland, Michael Keato, Jon Favreau, Marisa Tomei, Robert Downey, Jr. Toby Maguire? Andrew Garfield? Now Tom Holland? Yep that’s right, the sixth Spider-Man film in 15 years has arrived, and this one is directed by Jon Watts.
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Josh Duhamel, Stanley Tucci, Anthony Hopkins That’s right Transformers is back, and so is Michael Bay with the 5th in the franchise. Can you believe it? There’s 5 of these things. The Transformers franchise has been critically panned for the most part, but has grossed 3.7 billion worldwide. It’s a smart business […]
Starring: Tom Cruise, Annabelle Wallis, Sophia Boutella, Russell Crowe The Mummy, is directed by writer/director Alex Kurtzman, and is the first instalment in the Universal ‘Dark Universe’ shared cinematic universe of classic movie monsters.
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle T2 Trainspotting, the sequel to the ground-breaking 1996 film, got a preview screening last night at Auckland’s Broadway Newmarket Cinema. Along with a bevy of local “celebrities”, director Danny Boyle was on hand to say a few words before the film rolled.
Director: Peter Berg 15th of April 2013 was a perfect spring day in Boston, Massachusetts – Patriots Day – honouring the first battles of the American Revolution and the day of the annual Boston Marathon. And the day chosen by the Chechen-refugee Tsarnaev brothers, Tamerlan (Themo Melikidze) and Dzhokar (Alex Wolff) as the date of […]
Starring: Jemaine Clement, Regina Hall, Jessica Williams Flight Of The Conchords’ Jemaine Clement tries his hand as the lead in a romantic comedy set in New York…keeping his Kiwi accent intact. The romantic comedy is a peculiar beast. If done well, it feels easy and natural, but so often it fails thanks to a weak […]
Here’s a strange beast…a film about an exhibition about David Bowie. The highly acclaimed David Bowie Is exhibition is due to take up residency in Melbourne beginning in July and this documentary, shot on the last day of the original exhibition at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum in 2013, serves as a primer for the […]