Kiwi playwright Stephen Sinclair’s Remain in Light is a juggernaut allegory for our times – a one-act play set in a dystopian world where the sun no longer rises. The world premiere was staged at Takapuna’s PumpHouse Theatre on Saturday night to a nearly full house. With all its resources exhausted, the world is plunged […]
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 […]
Director: Ben Affleck 2 Stars Ben Affleck wrote, directed and stars in this unrestrained, out of control mess of a movie set in prohibition era Boston and Florida. An ambitious effort – it takes on both Irish and Italian gangster cultures, racism and the Ku Klux Klan, white supremacy, southern ignorance, immigration, drugs and alcohol, […]
Most mistakes can be fixed, apologised for or forgotten. Some change our lives completely and forever. Lee Chandler (Casey Affleck) is a thirty-something janitor living in a tiny basement flat in Boston. He works hard and seems capable, but can’t get along with anyone. He drinks alone and is prone to throwing a fist if […]
Based on the true story of a team of African American women working for NASA in the early 1960s, Hidden Figures focuses on three women who individually and collectively broke down the racial divide and were some of the key players in getting the US manned space programme literally off the ground. Back before there […]
xXx: The Return of Xander Cage Director: D. J. Caruso After 15 years, Xander Cage (Vin Diesel) returns from the dead for a mission so deadly and dangerous, it requires the services of all the xXx agents – past, present and deep-cover. Pandora’s Box – a diabolical communication device that controls every military satellite in […]
Ruban Nielson and his bandmates took their fans on a fanciful musical journey that took quite a few unexpected detours as Unknown Mortal Orchestra played to a sold-out crowd at Auckland’s St James Theatre. There was a good energy in the old St James tonight, perhaps left over from the previous evening’s Save The St […]