The Fairy Godmother, a staple of the Disney Fairytale and a character whom we all think we know. Well, you might have to guess again with Godmothered as this tale of fairy godmothers and the magic that they weave gets spun on its head and reinterprets just what a real-life fairy tale can be and […]
Movie Reviews
‘Made In Italy’ – Review
Liam Neeson returns to the big screen, and this time it’s a family affair as he’s joined by his son Micheál Richardson for this easy-going and quintessentially heart-warming film in Made In Italy. A bohemian artist travels from London to Italy with his estranged son to sell the house he inherited from his late wife. […]
“The Secrets We Keep’ – Review
Noomi Rapace, Joel Kinnaman and Chris Messina play a taut game of cat and mouse in director Yuval Adler’s The Secrets We Keep, a post-WWII thriller that dredges up a dark and dreadful past and delivers a tale of white knuckle tension to the big screen. In a small U.S. town post-WWII, far from the […]
‘Let Him Go’ – Review
How far are you willing to go to save your family? That’s the central tenet of burning neo-western Let Him Go, which hits audiences with the force of a double-barrelled shotgun and features career-best performances from both Diane Lane and Kevin Costner. Following the loss of their son, retired sheriff George Blackledge (Costner) and his […]
‘Babyteeth’ – Review
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 […]
‘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 […]