NZIFF Programme Launch Film: Mavis!

Posted 1:59pm Sunday 19th July 2015

Rating: 3/5 This year’s New Zealand International Film Festival (NZIFF) is Dunedin’s biggest film festival to date. With almost 100 films from 25 countries, the 39th Dunedin International Film Festival celebrated the launch of its programme with a delicious array of macarons, dips, Read more...

Madame Bovary

Posted 1:56pm Sunday 19th July 2015

Rating: 3/5 As a writer, Gustave Flaubert spent his career chasing after “le mot juste” — “the right word” — and, for many people, Madame Bovary truly captures his perfectionist style. However, film adaptations of Madame Bovary have yet to embody that Read more...

Interview with Jacob Rajan

Posted 1:57pm Sunday 12th July 2015

Indian Ink’s play, Kiss the Fish, will be coming to Dunedin soon. Mandy Te caught up with Jacob Rajan to understand his background and how the Indian Ink Theatre Company was born. What personally drew you towards acting and pursuing acting professionally? I was never into performance Read more...

Love & Mercy

Posted 1:33pm Sunday 12th July 2015

Rating: 4/5 Biographical films require a certain delicacy but, since someone’s life cannot easily and wholly fit into a chunk of two hours, they often fall into the potholes of inaccuracy and over-dramatisation in favour of entertainment value. Bill Pohlad’s artistic approach to Brian Read more...

Interview with Lara Macgregor

Posted 1:49pm Sunday 5th July 2015

Critic had a chat to artistic director, actor and director Lara Macgregor about directing Punk Rock and what it’s like to work both behind the scenes and on stage.  Punk Rock will be showing from 27 June to 18 July at Fortune Theatre. You’ve acted in several theatre Read more...

The Last Five Years

Posted 1:29pm Sunday 5th July 2015

Rating: 3/5 Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years is a musical that is literally all singing and no dialogue; it isn’t the first theatre production that comes to my mind when adapting a stage play into a film. However, the storyline of The Last Five Years creates a raw and genuine Read more...

Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozhino/ The Way He Looks

Posted 1:30pm Sunday 17th May 2015

Soon to be classic I fondly associate The Way He Looks with a friend who is on the other side of the world. When I told him that I would be reviewing this soon-to-be classic, he described the moment as “serendipitous” — he had watched the film only a few days ago while on a Read more...

Marvel’s Daredevil, Season 1 (Episode 1)

Posted 3:22pm Sunday 19th April 2015

TV Following in the footsteps of the CW network, Netflix has recently released 13 episodes of its new superhero show, Marvel’s Daredevil. Created by Drew Goddard, this series takes on Stan Lee’s comic-book character but gives the Daredevil’s story a dark, modern-day twist Read more...

Heathers

Posted 2:51pm Sunday 12th April 2015

Cult 80s coming-of-age films often deal with detention, skipping school, finally getting Jake Ryan to notice you and making your own clothes. However, Heathers breaks this mould with a plotline that is darker and deadlier than any John Hughes film. While Mean Girls is often hailed as Read more...

Insurgent

Posted 3:11pm Sunday 29th March 2015

Rating: 3/5 Even though we’re well into 2015, it seems as though the dystopian film fad just can’t be shaken off. Insurgent picks up where Divergent left off, but this time with Robert Schwentke as director and Akiva Goldsman as the script writer. After the attack on Abnegation’s Read more...