Returning to the cinemas has been a rare and welcomed experience for us this year, and any time we get the chance to experience a piece of cinema up on the big screen we’ve been very grateful for it. And watching Babyteeth is one of those experience. What might have been a disaster for the […]
Movie Reviews
‘Baby Done’ – Review
If there’s one thing that 2020 has proved it’s that we need comedy more than ever before. And offering audiences plenty of delight is Curtis Vowell and Sophie Henderson’s Baby Done, which examines the rushed onset of parenthood and how sometimes the biggest changes in our lives can ultimately be the most rewarding. Wannabe-adventurer Zoe […]
‘The Secret Garden’ – Review
The chimes of spring are in the air again and we couldn’t think of a better film to welcome in springtime with the beautiful new adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s classic story The Secret Garden. The Secret Garden tells the story of Mary Lennox (Dixie Egerickx), a prickly and unloved 10-year-old girl, born in India to […]
‘Bill & Ted: Face The Music’ – Review
‘Savage’ – Review
When it comes to New Zealand’s cinematic landscape director Sam Kelly (Lambs) is a storyteller who leads out at the front with a unique voice all his own. He’s a director who isn’t afraid to take audiences into the darker corners of Aotearoa that some might fear to tread and this shows in all his […]
‘The New Mutants’ – Review
It’s taken a long time, but finally, director Josh Boone’s The New Mutants has arrived onto the big screen, and it’s a film with plenty of surprises for its audience. Five young mutants, who are held against their will in a secret laboratory discover they are being experimented upon and stage an escape. And in […]
‘The One and Only Ivan’ – Review
In times like these, we could all do with something a little magical, and it’s here that Walt Disney’s The One and Only Ivan comes into play. This is the film we need right now, and audiences will be dazzled with its emotional, heartfelt story and its eclectic group of characters. A gorilla named Ivan […]
‘Military Wives’ – Review
It’s not just those on the battlefield who serve. Very often it’s the wives, girlfriends, sisters and daughters at home who face a much more personal battle, and have their own tests and limits that they need to overcome. Military Wives is the story of these women, specifically the women of the Military Wives Choir, […]
‘Unhinged’ – Review
If you’re looking for a cinematic experience that will have you on the razor’s edge of terror, then you don’t need to look too far with Russell Crowe’s vindictively terrifying performance in Unhinged, which revs up the scares and floors it with this intense cinema treat! After a confrontation with an unstable man (Russell Crowe) […]
‘House of Cardin’ – Review
What is it to create? That feeling of bringing something from nothing. Of expressing something so personal that grows within you to the world outside. Of finding that perfect form of artistic expression that lights up your soul and is completely pure. If there’s a man who understands creation then it is undoubtedly fashion genius […]