This year’s French Film Festival Aotearoa 2024 has been a fantastic event for long-time cinephiles, and audiences have been delivered an incredible array of elegant and opulent cinema from a diverse range of genres that celebrate the artistic merits of French artisans who work and play within the medium of cinema. One of the standout […]
Movie Reviews
‘Bad Boys: Ride or Die’ – Review
Brace yourselves for all kinds of high-energy, high-octane craziness because Will Smith and Martin Lawrence are back as Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett. They’re ready to blow Miami sky-high with a full-on, in-your-face, action picture that doesn’t let up for a moment in Bad Boys: Ride or Die. Detectives Mike Lowrey (Will Smith) and Marcus […]
‘Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga’ – Review
Cinematic maestro George Miller is ready to take audiences back to the heavy-metal action of the Wasteland with Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. This is the must-watch prequel to Miller’s lauded 2015 action masterpiece Mad Max: Fury Road and introduces audiences to the darkest of angels, Furiosa, and it’s an utterly insane watch! As the […]
‘Joika’ – Review
New Zealander filmmaker James Napier-Roberston has proven that he’s an artist willing to push the envelope and extend himself in dramatic ways. His new film, Joika, is a true story of Ballet in the pursuit of excellence that plays out like a taut psychological thriller – and you won’t be able to look away. A […]
‘The Strangers: Chapter 1’ – Review
Veteran filmmaker Renny Harlin turns up the horror as he takes audiences into a backwoods nightmare with The Strangers: Chapter 1, which is a creepy and suspenseful sight that will surely make you shudder. After their car breaks down in an eerie small town, a young couple is forced to spend the night in a […]
‘The Moon Is Upside Down’ – Review
The New Zealand cinema industry is on a roll at the moment with some fantastic film and television work coming to screens, and one of the more intriguing and thought-provoking releases to arrive on screen is actress-turned-director Loren Taylor’s The Moon Is Upside Down. Three women – a duped mail-order bride, a numbed anaesthetist determined […]
‘Boy Kills World’ – Review
Three. Two. One. FIGHT! Moritz Mohr’s Boy Kills World is ready to crash into cinemas, and this is a full-on rush of action-anime-cartoon inspired glory that goes for it in every possible way, and the result is a pure cult film in the making! “Boy” (Bill Skarsgård) vows revenge after his family is murdered by […]
‘Back to Black’ – Review
As a chart-topping singer-songwriter, the late, great Amy Winehouse was an utterly one-of-a-kind talent who truly shone in her all-too-brief 27 years and produced two of the greatest albums of modern times. Now, her story is brought to the screen with music and pop, and audiences will find themselves entranced by Sam Taylor-Johnson’s Back to […]
‘The Lie’ – Review
The tragic disappearance and murder of Grace Millane shocked the world and would cause a country to mourn and seek answers as to why a beautiful young woman would suddenly just be taken. Much has been written and reported by the media on this infamous case, and now director Helena Coan brings to life the […]
‘The Fall Guy’ – Review
We’re currently in a new golden age of action cinema thanks to a mad group of maverick stuntmen turned filmmakers at 87North, and their rambunctious energy and thrill to entertain has led to The Fall Guy, a blockbuster that’s big on action, laughs and romance and that makes for the perfect cocktail of cinematic fun […]