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A Micronaut in the Wide World

Posted 3:50pm Sunday 4th August 2013 by Charlotte Doyle

Hocken Library, 15 June – 10 August Exhibitions featuring an illustrator are few and far between. Depending on the number of bedtime stories you demanded as a kid, they can plunge you nostalgically back into childhood. Although he lived most of his adult life in London, Graham Percy Read more...

It’s A Wonderful Life

Posted 3:50pm Sunday 4th August 2013 by Rosie Howells

Frank Capra’s 1946 It’s a Wonderful Life is the best Christmas film ever made. Don’t worry, not in an oh-my-Jesus-I’m-so-hipster-I-can-only-appreciate-films-made-before-the-advent-of-the-toaster-oven kind of way, but in a highly-accessible-heart-warming-life-affirming way. James Stuart, in Read more...

The Wolverine

Posted 3:50pm Sunday 4th August 2013 by Baz Macdonald

Rating: 4/5 It takes a movie like The Wolverine to make you realise why all of the superhero films (particularly Marvel’s) are beginning to feel stale, and it is because they all feel exactly the same. Although they all have different heroes facing different situations, they share virtually Read more...

Ping Pong

Posted 3:50pm Sunday 4th August 2013 by Rosie Howells

Rating: 2.5/5 Ping Pong is a documentary that follows eight competitors at the World Over-80s Table Tennis Championships in China. These elderly sportspeople include such characters as terminally ill Terry from Great Britain, 85-year-old Texan first-timer Lisa and 100-year-old ping pong Read more...

The World’s End

Posted 3:50pm Sunday 4th August 2013 by Lyle Skipsey

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...

Gardening With Soul

Posted 3:50pm Sunday 4th August 2013 by Rosie Howells

Gardening with Soul is a New Zealand documentary film that tells the story of a year in the life of Sister Loloya Galvin, the 90-year-old head gardener of Wellington’s Home of Compassion. Director Jess Feast follows Sister Loyola through the four seasons, in which their conversations and Loyola’s Read more...

To the Wonder

Posted 3:50pm Sunday 4th August 2013 by Rosie Howells

The Regent Theatre - Octagon Sunday 18 August 8.45pm Rialto Cinema - Moray Place Tuesday 20 August 4pm Terrence Malick is a director lucky enough to have been stamped with auteur status. Nature, love and religion are the core of his past works Badlands, Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Read more...

The Gilded Cage (La Cage dorée)

Posted 3:50pm Sunday 4th August 2013 by Rosie Howells

The Regent Theatre - Octagon Friday 9 August 6.30pm Tuesday 13 August 11am This upstairs-downstairs drama/comedy was a break-out hit in France, closing on 1.2 million admissions and sparking a Latino remake that is currently in the works. Set in present-day Paris, The Gilded Read more...

Utu Redux

Posted 3:50pm Sunday 4th August 2013 by Amber Pullin

The Regent Theatre - Octagon Saturday 10 August 8.15pm Thirty years since its release, Geoff Murphy’s Utu will be hitting the silver screen again this August, digitally restored and remastered for the International Film Festival. Starring Anzac Wallace and Bruno Lawrence, Utu is a story of Read more...

Dial M for Murder

Posted 3:50pm Sunday 4th August 2013 by Rosie Howells

Rialto Cinema - Moray Place Saturday 17 August 8.30pm Sunday 18 August 5.45pm Dial M for Murder has everything you’d expect from a great Alfred Hitchcock movie: Grace Kelly, greed, and scissors as a murder weapon. Driven by betrayal and lust for money, ex-tennis star Tony Wendice (Ray Read more...