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Scream 4 – more of a whimper really
Last weekend I had the misfortune of watching Scream 4, the fourth (and hopefully final) sequel in Wes Craven’s Scream franchise. The original 1996 Scream movie may be credited for rebooting the whole...
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Surely we owe it to the children in our communities?
It has been an interesting last couple of years for the issue of broadcasting standards here in NZ, particularly in the area of free-to-air television. Whenever this issue raises its head in the public...
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Six DVD’s that people will be glad to get for Christmas
With just over a week to go until Christmas I’m sure any of you who haven’t purchased your Christmas gifts already are starting to get a little bit overwhelmed at the prospect of trying to figure out...
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M. Night Shyamalan; cinematic prophet: The Village
In the last week or so I have been working my way through my DVD collection of M. Night Shyamalan films, and in doing so I was reminded of what a truly gifted and important filmmaker he is, in fact I...
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How loss of virtue is killing the romantic comedy
Over the holiday period I had the unfortunate experience of having to sit through several recently released rom-coms (romantic comedies). The experience was unfortunate not because I don’t like...
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Zero Dark Thirty holds a mirror up to America and confronts it with some...
On Wednesday night my brother and I went to the new Kathryn Bigelow film Zero Dark Thirty, which explores the manhunt and eventual assassination of Osama bin Laden in a compound in Pakistan in 2011....
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Why are zombies back at the box office?
Recently my brother (the other cinephile in the family) and I were discussing films, and we got round to exploring the issue of why the last decade of film has been dominated by so many movies about...
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Warm Bodies: the best zombie film about authentic love you’ll ever watch
Zombie films are a lot of things, but, until I watched the recently released Warm Bodies, I never imagined I’d see one that provided such an amazingly profound treatise on the human condition and our...
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Why you should definitely go and see Gravity ASAP!
Last weekend my wife and I were able to get to a 3D screening of the new Alfonso Cuarón movie Gravity. I absolutely loved Gravity. Not only is it an amazing film that is well written, well directed and...
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Can The Hobbit trilogy be salvaged, or is it now just too late?
Over the weekend my wife and I went to see the second installment in The Hobbit trilogy, The Desolation of Smaug. It was a lot better than it’s predecessor; An Unexpected Journey, and the dragon Smaug...
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