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Cemetery Junction

Posted 4:43am Tuesday 10th August 2010 by Nicole Muriel

Directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant Coming soon to DVD 3/5    Quite a surprise from the Gervais/Merchant team, this film actually wants to be taken seriously. You wonder if earnest is a good choice for these guys to make; after all, their success has been in Read more...

Killers

Posted 4:29am Tuesday 10th August 2010 by Max Segal

Directed by Robert Luketic Playing at Hoyts, Rialto (3/5) Kutcher and Heigl are back at it again in a slightly younger and lamer version of Knight And Day. Most audiences are not buying that a Kutcher-type character would be into a 'young', Heigl-type. And let's face it, we Read more...

Certified Copy

Posted 4:28am Tuesday 10th August 2010 by Sarah Baillie

Directed by Abbas Kiarostami NZIFF (4/5) Certified Copy is an enchanting reflection on the nature of art, relationships, marriage, and – in a wider sense – reality.    James Miller (William Shimell) is a British academic who is in Tuscany promoting his Read more...

NZ International Film Festival 2010

Posted 4:23am Tuesday 10th August 2010 by Max Segal

Another NZ International Film Festival has come and gone, and our film-watching stamina has been put to the test. For two-and-a-half weeks they've thrown eight or ten films per day at an enthusiastic public, eager for a break from the usual Hollywood fare. What was the result? Did you see as Read more...

Second Nature: the Inner Lives of Animal

Posted 4:22am Tuesday 10th August 2010 by Mariya Semenova

Author: Jonathan Balcombe Publisher: MacMillan (4.5/5)    Second Nature is an engaging and inspiring must-read for everyone, from animal lovers to anthropocentric sceptics. The author, Jonathan Balcombe, is a biologist with a great body of knowledge about animal Read more...

Pretty Monsters

Posted 4:21am Tuesday 10th August 2010 by Sarah Maessen

Author: Kelly Link Publisher: Text Publishing (4/5)    If you are looking for something short and bittersweet, this is the book for you. Pretty Monsters is a collection of short stories featuring everything from your childhood nightmares – werewolves, aliens, Read more...

the Bookseat

Posted 4:19am Tuesday 10th August 2010 by Jonathan Jong

Product: the Bookseat Manufacturer: Emerging Products Website: www.thebookseat.com Retailer: University Bookshop (5/5)      Even among gadget geeks, there is often some unease over reading accessories. They somehow seem to go one step too far: Read more...

True Blood

Posted 4:24am Monday 2nd August 2010 by Lauren McEwan Nugent

Prime Wednesday 9.30 pm (4/5) In the small southern U.S. town of Bon Temps, vampires have ‘come out of the coffin’, making their presence known to the world. After the discovery of synthetic blood, they’re thankfully able to nom on something other than humans. Naturally Read more...

Vampire Diaries

Posted 4:22am Monday 2nd August 2010 by Martin Zissou

TV2 Thursdays, 8.30pm (2/5)      Want to see the dredges of Twilight and the off-cuts of True Blood coagulate in front of you for 40 long minutes? Not really? Yeah, I don’t blame you. This week we’re checking out a couple of teen-vampire TV shows that have Read more...

LTT Review: Here We Are

Posted 4:19am Monday 2nd August 2010 by Benjamin Blakely

Written by: Dorothy Parker Directed by: Diana Mockford Starring: Alex Wilson and Miriam Noonan (2.5/5) When going to see a work by a new director I always have a slight sense of trepidation, never quite knowing how the situation will pan out. Here We Are was set on a train and the Read more...