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 [...]

Review: Prior to watching Horrible Bosses my expectations were low, anticipating a film as shallow and unoriginal as the title suggests. I was pleasantly surprised when the black comedy not only delivered on my expectations but exceeded them. Horrible Bosses is stupid, but it’s also hilarious and perfect for a light-hearted night out. Nick’s (Jason Bateman) [...]

Review: A warning to those with coulrophobia – the psychotic, murderous clowns encountered in Spanish horror The Last Circus will keep you wetting the bed for years. Main character Javier’s (Carlos Areces) childhood is robbed by the bloody Spanish Civil War. His father, through the barbed wire of a labour camp, tells him the only [...]

Review: The Kids Are All Right is a modern day story about a truly modern family. It tells the story of a lesbian couple who have two children to the same sperm donor. As the kids reach university age they decide to contact their father who re-enters, albeit awkwardly,  their lives. Director Lisa Cholodenko, who [...]

New Zealand Olympic rower Rob Hamill has just finished a documentary tracing the capture and murder of his older brother Kerry at the hands of the genocidal Khmer Rouge in Cambodia – a film Aucklanders can expect to see in late July. Nineteen-year old Kerry Hamill went missing in 1978 on a sailing trip to [...]

How does a film with the reputation of being one of the world’s worst movies get screened weekly at Auckland city’s Academy Cinema? By establishing a cult following of hundreds of fans called “roomies”. The Room — dubbed the “Citizen Kane of Bad Movies” by Entertainment Weekly — was written, acted, directed and produced by [...]