Jane Campion’s new Tv series Top Of The Lake [REVIEW]
Yesterday afternoon I was very lucky to have been invited to watch a preview screening of Jane Campion’s Top Of The Lake – a six part BBC crime series set in the remote…
Line of Duty [TV REVIEW]
Line of Duty is a 5 episode British police drama which tells the story of an investigation into a dirty high-flying cop Detective Chief Inspector Tony Gates by the anti-corruption unit. We watched…
THE BRIDGE [TV REVIEW]
The Bridge is a Danish / Swedish co-produced crime drama which follows the criminal investigation when a dead body is found on the mid-point of of the Øresund Bridge, which connects Copenhagen in…
ELECTRICK CHILDREN [Movie Review]
Electrick Children is a pretty great coming-of-age movie starring Rury Culkin and Julia Garner and is the feature-movie debut of writer / director Rebecca Thomas – it’s enjoyable if you are happy to…
Argo [REVIEW]
On 4 November 1979 the Iranian revolution reached a boiling point and militants stormed the US embassy in Tehran taking 52 Americans hostage. Six Americans managed to slip away and a covert operation…
Dredd 3D [Review]
I went to see DREDD 3D over the weekend and it was awesome. Karl Urban plays the lead role – and you only ever see the lower half of his face, really, since…
Mark Zuckerberg : Inside Facebook
This BBC documentary looks at how Facebook plans to turn it’s 900 million users into billions and billions of dollars. Emily Maitlis looks at the Facebook story, one that most of us are…
The Newsroom [TV Review]
I watched a screener of the first episode of the new HBO series The Newsroom last night – which startes screening in New Zealand on Monday 13th August (8.30pm – Soho, SkyTV; encores…
The Fades
The Fades is a BBC six part sci-fi horror that’s about to hit Sky Tv subscriber’s screen this Tuesday night. Primary protagonist, Paul Roberts still wets his bed, despite being 16 or 17….
FILM REVIEW : Searching For Sugar Man
When watching the enthralling and compelling documentary film Searching For Sugar Man – which tells the tale of two South Africans setting forth to track hold their musical hero – the mysterious folk…
SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED
I saw one of the best films I have seen in freaking ages last week – straight from the Sundance Film Festival and SXSW – from the producers of Little Miss Sunshine and…
The Most Fun You Can Have Dying
For many people (I am about to alienate New Zealand’s fourth largest urban centre) being told that you only had a matter of months to live would come as a sweet relief if…
Antics Roadshow
Banksy said of this TV special he made “‘Basically I just thought it was a good name for a TV programme and I’ve been working back from there.”
James Cameron’s The FInal Word (on Titanic) screens tonight on Sky’s National Geographic
Everyone’s jumping on board (excuse the reverse-pun) the whole Titanic sank 100 years ago this month buzz – and none more so than James Cameron who obviously, with the release of the 3D…
Temple Grandin
Claire Daines plays the title role in this 2010 HBO biopic directed by Mick Jackon ( Chattahoochee, LA Story, The Body Guard). Daines had seemingly disappeared until her recent and most excellent portrayal…
Game Change
I dare say that politically-right leaning viewers might claim that the film is heavily biased. It is guilty, perhaps, of being so realistic in this age of journo-tainment, that it’s easy to forget…
The Shadow Line
I started watching the BBC thriller, dubbed by some as ‘the British Killing” over the weekend – Sky hooked Cheese on Toast up with the first two episodes. It’s a paced and somewhat…
Warm Springs
I confess that the knowledge that Franlkin D Roosevelt was was buried somewhere in my sub-conscious was a paraplegic to the point that if you had asked me last week I’d only guess…
THE KILLING
Apparently it rains all the time in Seattle. Not just on the TV version, where The Killing is set, but actually, really. Like, even more than in Auckland. The Killing was initially aired…
Lizzie & Sarah
The pilot episode to this British sit-com screened on BBC in 2010 at 11.45pm on a Saturday night. The series was never produced any further. If you were/are a fan of League of…
127 Hours to screen on Sky Movies
This weeks Blockbuster Premiere on Sky Movies is 127 Hours starring James Franco. It screens Sunday 19 February, 8.30pm (Second Chance Thursday 23rd February)
Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
You have possibly already heard about the West Memphis Three. In 1993 Damien Wayne Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley were arrested and charged with the murder of three 8 year old boys….
The Only Way Is Essex hits NZ screens
If you like a bit of trash-tv then The Only Way is Essex (abbreviated to TOWIE by it’s fans) has hit NZ screen – on Sky TV’s UKTV on Wednesdays – starting last…
HOMELAND
Homeland screened on US’s Showtime from Oct to December last year and is about to hit NZ network television on TV3 - screening Mondays at 9.30pm from Feb 13th. The dramatic thriller centres…
The Artist – review
I’m going on a limb and calling Emperor’s new clothes on the much applauded The Artist.
Sherlock Holmes : A Game of Shadows
We checked out a preview of the new Sherlock Holmes flick just before Christmas – and can report it’s an enjoyable not-much-of-a-brainer kind of affair – smart lines; easy-to-follow plot line that springs…
Headhunters – movie review
I watched a screener of the 2011 Norwegian crime-thriller Headhunters on the weekend; it’s due to hit NZ cinemas on 8 March 2012 – and it’s a solid watch indeed. The unlikely named…
The Inbetweeners Movie
If you haven’t seen the British TV series The Inbetweeners you have sorely missed out on some of the best television comedy to come out of Britain in years; it’s snappy, irreverent and…
