Cannes 2018 Review: Leave No Trace
This is no WINTER’S BONE, so don’t go in with that expectation. But it still a very good film and a captivating father/daughter tale.
Read Moreby James Partridge | May 19, 2018 | Events, Festival Reviews, Festivals, News, NZ Actors, NZ Film, Reviews | 0
This is no WINTER’S BONE, so don’t go in with that expectation. But it still a very good film and a captivating father/daughter tale.
Read Moreby James Partridge | Jan 1, 2016 | Features, News, NZ Actors, NZ Film, Release Round-Up | 0 |
Happy New Year film fans! There’s a lot to look forward to in 2016, but let’s start with the three big films released today. Our first FOTW for 2016, Snoopy and Charlie Brown: The Peanuts Movie, will stir fond...
Read Moreby James Partridge | Oct 29, 2015 | Features, Indie Film, News, NZ Actors, NZ Directors, NZ Film, Release Round-Up | 0 |
We’re spoiled for choice this week. For your consideration, we have: a gripping tale of eviction set during the global financial crisis, a dark Australian comedy about a vengeful dressmaker, a creepy horror in which a...
Read Moreby James Partridge | May 21, 2015 | Features, Indie Film, News, NZ Actors, NZ Directors, NZ Film, Release Round-Up | 0 |
New Zealand is transformed into frontier America in Slow West, our FOTW. But if westerns aren’t your thing, Melissa McCarthy brings the laughs in Spy, the Poltergeist remake promises some scares, there’s a great doco...
Read Moreby James Partridge | May 7, 2015 | Features, Indie Film, News, NZ Actors, NZ Directors, NZ Film, Release Round-Up | 0 |
Three stunning documentaries lead the charge this week. Each one’s a “must see”, but it’s the heartland rugby doco The Ground We Won that deservedly gets our nod for FOTW. Also this week, there’s the Aussie...
Read Moreby James Partridge | Dec 10, 2014 | Features, Indie Film, News, NZ Actors, NZ Directors, NZ Film, Release Round-Up | 0 |
It will come as no surprise that our ‘Film of the Week’ is Peter Jackson‘s (possibly) final trip to Middle Earth. But if that doesn’t have you running down to the cinema like an excited fanboy or girl,...
Read Moreby James Partridge | Dec 4, 2014 | Features, Indie Film, News, NZ Actors, NZ Directors, NZ Film, Release Round-Up | 0 |
Flicks from New Zealand, the UK and the US fill up our cinemas this week, with the gorgeous-looking, self-funded Kiwi indie Sunday getting our nod for Film of the Week. Which films will you be watching? . Opening Sunday: ....
Read Moreby James Partridge | Nov 24, 2014 | News, NZ Actors, NZ Directors, NZ Film | 0 |
In 2012, the New Zealand Film Awards (a.k.a. The Moas) was but a “sorta unofficial” event – after the Film and Television Awards became extinct. Two years later, with Rialto Channel on as principal sponsor,...
Read Moreby James Partridge | Jun 20, 2014 | Indie Film, News, NZ Actors, NZ Directors, NZ Film | 0 |
How do you make a believable ‘high-concept’ sci-fi movie on a low budget? Upcoming Wellington director Ferand Peek’s has the answer: “Do it in one shot”. His indie short Mis-Drop is an exhilarating thrill-ride...
Read Moreby James Partridge | May 31, 2014 | Events, Indie Film, News, NZ Actors, NZ Directors, NZ Film | 0 |
Last night in Auckland the Rialto Channel 48Hours 2014 Grand National Champion was crowned. 2007 Champions Lense Flare, with their musical comedy Pants on Fire, took home the top award and a prize pool worth over $60,000....
Read Moreby James Partridge | May 22, 2014 | Features, News, NZ Actors, NZ Film, Release Round-Up | 0 |
A film as big as X-Men: Days of Future Past would have every right to command the box office all to itself this week, but a fascinating-looking period drama from Poland says otherwise. . Opening today: . X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE...
Read Moreby James Partridge | Apr 17, 2014 | Features, News, NZ Actors, NZ Film, Release Round-Up | 0 |
It’s pretty hard to go past a movie made of LEGO, but there are a couple of other films out this week that look very well put together – Like Father Like Son and The Invisible Woman. . Opening today: . THE LEGO...
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