★★★★½ - THE POST
- Big Girls Don’t Cry is a modern NZ classic -
I don’t have much time for “looking back”. As far as I’m concerned, the only thing that counts is what we do next. But, it has stuck in my head that the first week of October in 2006 was the first time I had a review published in this…
★★★★ - EMPIRE
- Concerned by her company’s amplification of outrage and political extremism, Facebook data engineer Frances Haugen (Mikey Madison) becomes a whistleblower for Wall Street Journal investigative reporter Jeff Horwitz (Jeremy Allen White) -
When we last saw him in The Social Network,…
★★★★ - TIME OUT
- Tom Cruise stops running and starts acting in Alejandro G Iñárritu’s superbly scurrilous black comedy -
Call Alejandro G Iñárritu’s matryoshka doll of an eco-disaster movie many things – and people will – but you can’t call it unambitious or half-hearted.
At a time when…
★★★★ - THE POST
- Pitt and best friend elevate this NZ-made survival thriller -
I know there's a particularly warm and pointy bit of hell reserved for film reviewers who give away too many of the twists and turns of the film they are scribbling about. But, I've also become aware in the last few…
★★★★ - EMPIRE
- Two police officers in a small town near the demilitarised zone between North and South Korea find themselves under attack from a mysterious creature unlike anything they’ve seen before. -
Given that Hope has made headlines as South Korea’s most expensive movie of all time, you…
★★★★ - THE POST
- De Gaulle concludes with an appropriately epic part two -
Have you seen De Gaulle Part One: Résistance on a big screen yet? I reckon you should.It's a rip-roaring yarn with some terrific action sequences, woven into a pretty deft account of the maneuvering that defined the future…
★★★★ - THE POST
- Hamilton Gardens is a national treasure. Go and see this film. -
I lived around Hamilton until I was 18 or so, but all I knew about Hamilton Gardens was that they existed. I've never visited them. Which, as so many things do, makes me feel like an idiot. It turns out that…
