The digital switchover was never going to be cheap but when you’re a 100-year-old cinema with a bill for $90,000, you’re going to need to do more than a sausage sizzle. That’s how much the Victoria Cinema in Devonport needs to upgrade to new DCP (digital cinema package) technology by the end of this year. [...]

  As violent protests swept the globe over the controversial film Innocence of Muslims, New Zealand Muslims have condemned the reaction.   The film, which was uploaded to video sharing website YouTube, has been viewed nearly 11 million times.   Created by Coptic Christian Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, under the pseudonym Sam Bacile, the film depicts [...]

Winner of the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Amour is a terrifying slap in the face about the inevitability of death. Michael Haneke, a director who loves to threaten the safety of the middle class, delivers a film that finds the nightmare in the familiar – milking the horror of the uncanny. [...]

As a fan of the original Total Recall film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, I was sceptical as I walked into the theatre to see the remake. I had heard there were some major changes to the plot, and I had absolutely no expectations. But I was pleasantly surprised. Total Recall is set in the late 21st [...]

  The fourth sequel of Ice Age begins with everybody’s favourite character Scrat chasing after his beloved acorn. He finds his cherished acorn and plonks it in the ground which then miraculously causes the Earth’s tectonic plates to separate and cause a continental drift.   Because of this Manny the mammoth, Sid the sloth and Diego [...]

Katy Perry gives us a glimpse into her outrageous, candy-coloured world in Part of Me. The film is part concert-footage, part diary, with plenty of ‘real’ (yet carefully edited) moments to gawk at. Katy is undeniably a huge pop success story and this is a unique opportunity to feel like more than a fan. You’re [...]

The Dark Knight Rises is the third and final installment of Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy. The monolithic conclusion has been anxiously awaited by fans across the globe after 2008’s smash hit The Dark Knight. But following the steps of that blockbuster is no easy feat; does Gotham’s caped crusader manage to go out with a [...]

BLOG: Do you ever wonder who’s behind the scenes while your enjoying watching a movie at your local cinema? Well, that’s the projectionist, which is actually what I do for my part time job. We frantically thread up the movies you watch through 35mm projectors before the shows are about to start, as well as [...]

Review: After seven books and eight movies spanning well over a decade, the Harry Potter generation is forced to say goodbye to J. K. Rowling’s modern day fairytale. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, adapted from the second half of Rowling’s last book, is the final instalment in the iconic series. Unlike Part 1, which [...]