Rush

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 6th October 2013

Rating: 4/5 Rush, starring Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Bruhl, chronicles the intense rivalry between drivers James Hunt and Niki Lauda. The film covers the early stages of the rivalry, but is mainly focused on the 1976 Formula One World Championship. Far more than just a story about sport, Read more...

Much Ado About Nothing

Posted 2:29pm Sunday 11th August 2013

The Regent Theatre - Octagon Thursday 22 August 8.30pm Friday 23 August 11am The Guardian has called it “the first great contemporary Shakespeare since Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet.” Now Joss Whedon’s take on the Bard’s Much Ado About Nothing is coming to the New Zealand Film Festival. Read more...

The World’s End

Posted 3:50pm Sunday 4th August 2013

Rating: 4/5 I feel there should be a disclaimer up front: when I left the movie last night I fully expected to give it a rather mediocre score. However, having slept on it, maybe I judged too soon. The World’s End is the third instalment in the “not a trilogy” Cornetto trilogy that Read more...

Invisible Ink? The Bastard Child of the Movie Biz

Posted 3:03pm Sunday 26th May 2013

If the modern day film industry mimics Shakespeare’s King Lear then the screenwriter is Edmund, the unloved bastard child, underappreciated but still vital to the plot. As Sunset Boulevard’s Joe Gillis said, “audiences don’t know somebody sits down and writes a picture. They think the actors make it Read more...

The Company You Keep

Posted 2:26pm Sunday 12th May 2013

Rating: 3/5 The Company You Keep, directed by Robert Redford, was based on a novel of the same name, and a novel it should have stayed. The story revolves around Jim Grant (Redford) a former Weather Underground militant, who becomes a wanted fugitive after his identity is exposed by a Read more...

Trance

Posted 5:49pm Sunday 14th April 2013

Danny Boyle’s latest movie is a mind-bender. Starring James McAvoy, Rosario Dawson, and Vincent Cassel, the movie follows an art heist gone wrong. Simon (McAvoy) is an auctioneer of fine art. He is charged with selling the rarest of paintings to the world’s wealthiest people. When an attempt Read more...

The Master

Posted 5:43pm Sunday 17th March 2013

I don’t know what possessed Joaquin Phoenix to take his weird break from acting/artistic endeavour but it’s great to have him back. His tortured performance as Freddie Quell, a sex-obsessed, alcoholic army vet returning to the real world in Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master is the best of an Read more...