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Review : Star Trek Into Darkness

Review : Star Trek Into Darkness

This review contains massive spoilers for the entire film. Seriously, it will ruin it for you, turn back now.   “Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the…

Welcome to the Punch : Stylish, Gritty, Dumb as a Bag of Hammers

Welcome to the Punch : Stylish, Gritty, Dumb as a Bag of Hammers

                            New Brit thriller Welcome to the Punch is stylish, gritty, and dumb as a bag of…

Review : Game of Thrones S03E01

Review : Game of Thrones S03E01

OMFG JON!! Jon is now supposed to be betraying the Night’s Watch, though don’t forget he’s actually a spy. Quorin Halfhand told Jon to kill him and therefore win the…

‘In The Flesh’ Gets Under The Skin

‘In The Flesh’ Gets Under The Skin

                The BBC aren’t even allowing the tears to dry on our faces before launching another ‘monster-with-a-heart’ drama into the Sunday night slot…

Seven Psychopaths – All fur coat, no knickers

Seven Psychopaths – All fur coat, no knickers

Seven Psychopaths really should be more fun that it is. Writer/Director Martin McDonagh’s follow-up to his excellent In Bruges is all fur coat, no knickers. Despite having an excellent cast…

Downton Abbey spares us necessary drama

Downton Abbey spares us necessary drama

If there’s one thing Downton Abbey is good at it’s a dramatic final episode. Never mind births, deaths and marriages – series one of Downton ended with the First World…

Review : Two Little Boys

Review : Two Little Boys

Two Little Boys brings a couple of New Zealand’s most abundant native resources to the big screen: beautiful scenery and idiot bogans. Within the first ten minutes a dead tourist bleeds…

Frankenweenie is a rare gem

Frankenweenie is a rare gem

Frankenweenie (2012) is the adorable re-retelling of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, but of course you already knew that.  This is the story of a boy and the love that he has…

Review : Banged Up Abroad

Review : Banged Up Abroad

Watching Banged up Abroad, you will become amazed at the sheer stupidity and naivety of the people who describe their seedy drug dealing pasts. No matter how candid a person…

Maybe She’s Bourne With It: How the Bourne Movies Put the HBIC

Maybe She’s Bourne With It: How the Bourne Movies Put the HBIC

Action movies are notoriously bad at producing decent roles for women, but for over ten years the Bourne thrillers have been responsible for some of the genre’s best female characters.…

Review : Lawless

Review : Lawless

Few groups get treated as badly by the movies as the country folk of the US South. This slander reached a peak with Deliverance, and its indelible linking of banjo…

SDCC Offsite : The Revenant screening

SDCC Offsite : The Revenant screening

One of the many new movies using Comic Con to build interest is Kerry Prior’s 2009 zombie buddy movie The Revenant, which finally has a theatrical release this August. Director…

Game of Thrones : Holy Fucking Shit [spoilers for 2.10]

Game of Thrones : Holy Fucking Shit [spoilers for 2.10]

The season 2 finale of Game of Throne is over. No more GoT until April 2o13 and….Holy Fucking Shit!   Holy Fucking Shit! Jaqen H’ghar changes his fucking face! Bad…

Whedon assembles a great Avengers movie

Whedon assembles a great Avengers movie

Staying after the credits to see the recently-shot final moment of Joss Whedon and Marvel’s The Avengers gave me the opportunity to hear something that, frankly, I don’t get to very often…

New Price of Kings doc released : Shimon Peres

New Price of Kings doc released : Shimon Peres

“You photographed my heart, not my body” was the reaction of Israeli president Shimon Peres when he saw the documentary produced by Joanna Natasegara and Richard Symons as part of…

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