Film Review: Zappa Dir: Alex Winter
Frank Zappa was always something of an enigma, and, nearly 30 years after his death he remains just that.
Frank Zappa was always something of an enigma, and, nearly 30 years after his death he remains just that.
Featuring the music of: Adeaze, Aaradhna, Savage, Mareko, Deceptikonz The documentary of Dawn Raid Entertainment is at its heart the story of Andy Murnane and Danny “Brother D” Leaosavai’i who met at a business college and went on to found a successful Hip-Hop music production and clothing business in 1999 in Papatoetoe, South Auckland.
Starring: Belén Custa, Javier Cámara, Alberto San Juan, Griselda Siciliani (Spanish with English subtitles) Two middle class couples find plenty to bicker about until one comes up with a potentially indecent proposal.
The title says it all. Out of the dozens of hits The Bee Gees racked up over the years, 1971’s How Can You Mend A Broken Heart captures the mood of this otherwise pedestrian documentary as sole surviving Gibb brother Barry remembers his three fallen brothers.
Starring: Margot Robbie, Finn Cole, Travis Fimmel Back to the future with this Depression-era crime drama firmly set well within the world of Bonnie & Clyde.
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.
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 […]
Starring: Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire, Andy Garcia, Sofia Coppola No, this isn’t a new addition to The Godfather franchise, but rather Francis Ford Coppola’s re-edit of the 1990 film formerly known as Godfather III.
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.
Starring: Lulu Wilson, Kevin James Joel McHale This nail-biting thriller has two things going for it…a (very) empowered 13-year-old girl and The King Of Queens as the Angel Of Doom.