Film

The Girl Who Played With Fire

Posted 4:31am Monday 23rd August 2010 by Aleksandar Vuckovic

Directed by Daniel Alfredson Rialto (3/5)       The Girl Who Played with Fire is a Swedish crime thriller and sequel to the highly acclaimedThe Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.    The film picks up where the original left off, with Lisbeth Salandar Read more...

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...

Clive Neeson: Film Maker, Physicist, Surf Pioneer.

Posted 3:09am Monday 2nd August 2010 by Hugh Barnard

Last Paradise Director: Clive Neeson NZ IFF, Rialto Friday August 6 , 6.15 pm Saturday August 7, 5.30 pm Last Paradise is a film with perhaps the longest gestation period in New Zealand cinema: filmmaker Clive Neeson spent forty years recording images of New Zealand’s Read more...

Inception

Posted 3:06am Monday 2nd August 2010 by Nell O'Dwyer-Strang

Directed by Christopher Nolan Hoyts, Rialto (5/5) Christopher Nolan is well on his way to becoming one of the biggest and most successful directors of our time, and Inception is a shining example of his talent as a director and a story-teller. Leonardo DiCaprio heads an impressive cast Read more...

Knight and Day

Posted 3:03am Monday 2nd August 2010 by Sarah Eckhoff

Directed by James Mangold Hoyts, Rialto 3.5/5 James Mangold, director of Walk the Line and 3:10 to Yuma, pairs Cameron Diaz and Tom Cruise in their second film together since Vanilla Sky. This action comedy sees Diaz playing June Havens, an incredibly girly mechanic who gets thrown in with Read more...

Interview with Jason Stutter

Posted 12:39am Monday 26th July 2010 by Max Segal

Director Jason Stutter’s newest film Predicament screened at the opening night of the New Zealand International Film Festival. He has also directed Diagnosis Death (2009) as well as short films such as Careful With That Axe. Predicament will be released in theatres on August 26.   Read more...

Interview with Briar March

Posted 12:38am Monday 26th July 2010 by Max Segal

Briar March is the director of There Once Was An Island, SICK Wid It (Homegrown: Dance Films), and Michael and His Dragon (Homegrown: Quirky Stories). Tell me about There Once Was An Island. It's about an island called Takuu, and about their situation following three islanders as they Read more...