Film

American Pie: Reunion

Posted 4:56pm Sunday 29th April 2012 by Taryn Dryfhout

American Pie: Reunion is yet another installment in this series of films, with this one being much anticipated due to most of the original cast returning in their more adult roles. It opens with American Pie’s golden couple, Jim and Michelle, who have been married for years and have a Read more...

Mysteries of Lisbon

Posted 4:56pm Sunday 29th April 2012 by Feby Idrus

Mysteries of Lisbon is a long movie – as it should be. Based on the nineteenth-century classic Portuguese novel Os Mistérios de Lisboa, this film adaptation’s length enables the novel’s full scope to be explored – in particular its intertwining stories, multiple locations and fabulous, romantic Read more...

Must-sees at the World Cinema Showcase

Posted 5:04pm Sunday 22nd April 2012 by Sarah Baillie

The World Cinema Showcase is back in town, and boy are there a lot of good movies to be seen! The baby version of the New Zealand International Film Festival, the WCS is running from April 19-May 2. The great thing about film festivals, apart from being able to go to the movies in the middle of the Read more...

Footnote

Posted 5:04pm Sunday 22nd April 2012 by Sam Allen

Footnote is a comedic satire that explores the awkward rivalry between two Talmudic Scholars, Eliezer Shkolnik and his son Uriel Shkolnik. Director Joseph Cedar pieces this award-winning film together beautifully, rendering it extremely engaging and surprisingly insightful. In the process of Read more...

Titanic (3D)

Posted 5:04pm Sunday 22nd April 2012 by Michaela Hunter

Titanic appreciators should definitely go and experience this classic film in 3D. Seeing Titanic for the first time in years was enjoyably nostalgic, despite the slight cringe factor of the cheesy lines and the accompanying Celine Dion soundtrack. I got far more involved in it than I thought I Read more...

The Women of the 6th Floor

Posted 3:53pm Sunday 15th April 2012 by Becky Ruthers

A Cinderella story in reverse, Jean-Louis Joubert is a successful stockbroker living a life of upper-middle-class refinement in early 1960s Paris. He works the same job and occupies the same lavish apartment as his father and grandfather did before him, expecting to do so for the rest of his life, Read more...

The Hunter

Posted 3:53pm Sunday 15th April 2012 by Andrew Oliver

Daniel Nettheim’s The Hunter is a beautiful and hypnotic piece of visual art weaving the dreamscape terrain of the Tasmanian bush and the powerful presence of Willem Dafoe into a delectably tense thriller that delivers action, suspense and drama in equal parts. Dafoe plays Martin, a professional Read more...

Mirror Mirror

Posted 3:53pm Sunday 15th April 2012 by Sasha Borissenko

What better way to engage an audience who are afflicted by today’s frightful economic climate than to present a storyline based around a financially burdened kingdom thanks to the follies of a beauty-obsessed queen? In one sense Tarsem Singh’s Mirror Mirror affirms issues of violence, Read more...

The Lorax (3D)

Posted 3:53pm Sunday 15th April 2012 by Jane Ross

If you were raised on the whimsical poetic meters and trippy cartoon drawing style of Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss) you may find the nauseating pace of the new 3D film version a tad too much sensory overload. There is just so much going on, and while you won’t want to miss out on the hectic Read more...

The Hunger Games

Posted 7:07pm Sunday 1st April 2012 by Ella Borrie

Director: Gary Ross The Hunger Games is the most recent piece of Young Adult lit to roll off the Hollywood production line. In a post-apocalyptic America, the indulgent Capitol rules over twelve districts. Tributes are picked from a lottery of citizens for the Capitol’s instrument of Read more...