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The Hedgehog

Posted 2:09pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Sarah Baillie

Directed by Mona Achache (4/5) The Hedgehog is an endearing film about the unlikely friendship which develops between three neighbours living in a luxury apartment building in Paris: Paloma, an 11-year-old girl; Renée, the concierge; and Mr. Ozu, an intriguing, friendly Japanese Read more...

A Single Man

Posted 2:08pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Kavi Chetty

Directed by Tom Ford (4.5/5) Tom Ford’s directorial debut A Single Man is, above all else, an aesthetic splendour. Based on the Christopher Isherwood novel of the same name, the story follows a day in the life of George Falconer (Colin Firth), a gay English professor, coping Read more...

Dear John

Posted 2:07pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Jane Adcroft

Directed by Lasse Halström (2.5 /5) Okay, confession time: I own The Notebook on DVD, I cry every time I watch A Walk to Remember, and I didn’t think Nights in Rodanthe was that bad. So when I heard that yet another Nicholas Sparks’ novel, Dear John, was being adapted for Read more...

Anything For Her

Posted 2:06pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Marissa Liu

Directed by Fred Cayaye (4.5/5) Anything For Her grips you from the very beginning. The film opens with a middle-aged man, Julien (Vincent Lindon), sitting in his car in the middle of the night, panting and covered in blood, staring panic-stricken at the back seat. The story then jumps Read more...

Press Pass: 40 Years of Award-Winning New Zealand Photography

Posted 1:54pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Georgie Fenwicke

By Geoff Dale Publisher: HarperCollins (3/5) At first glance, Press Pass appears to be a book that would reside comfortably on a coffee table. However, primary assumptions, as Elizabeth Bennet and George W. Bush can attest, oft deceive. Here instead is a book of substance and history Read more...

Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love

Posted 1:52pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Anne Ford

by Xinran Publisher: Chatto and Windus. (4.5/5) In this beautiful and moving book, Xinran retells stories told to her by women in China when she worked as a radio journalist in the late 1980s and 1990s. This time is known by the Chinese government as the ‘Reform and Read more...

Simon Kaan, Anna Muirhead, Bryce Galloway (The Blue Oyster )

Posted 1:47pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Emily Palmer

Until May 15   The first of three works to be encountered in the Blue Oyster Gallery Space this month is Dunedin artist Simon Kaan’s The Asian. Kaan transforms the gallery into The Asian restaurant, complete with pictures on the wall, a television in the corner, and the Read more...

LTT Review: He said … She said … They said …

Posted 1:31pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Erica Newlands

Coordinated by Simon O’Connor, Jordan Watts, and Anna Wood Written by Jeff Heneberry, Angela Band, Anna Woods, Emily Butler Monroe, and Abby Howells Directed by Joanne Bond, Vickie Cross, Paul Rothwell, Abby Howells, and Jordan Watts Starring Maryse Ridler, Joanne Bond, Susanna Mangos, Alex Read more...

In-Compass: A play about NAvigaTION

Posted 1:30pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Jen Aitken

Directed by Erica Newlands Performed/Created by Rua McCallum, Nylla Ah-Kuoi, Jennifer Aitken, Emere Leitch-Munro, Lyndon Katene, Martyn Roberts, Clare Thomson, and Charlotte Walkens (4/5)     This play was part of Newland’s exploration of “the ways in which Read more...

Bleeding Through

Posted 1:09pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Walker McMurdo

Bleeding Through Rise Records (3/5) Bleeding Through’s brand new self-titled record combines the best aspects of tough-guy hardcore and polished, melodic heavy metal. Riffs vary beyond the traditional “chugga chug chug” fare, and guitar solos are well-timed and dynamic. Read more...