‘Anora’ – Review

2024 has been a fantastic year for dramatic, character-driven storytelling, and one of the year’s best releases is undoubtedly Sean Baker’s Anora. This modern-day Cinderella tale revolves around themes of sex, cash, and manufactured love. It’s a film that you won’t be able to look away from. Anora ‘Ani’ Mikheeva (Mikey Madison), a sex worker […]

‘Better Man’ – Review

Better Man is a cinematic spectacle that redefines the musical biopic genre, offering an extraordinary journey into the life of one of pop music’s most iconic bad boys, Robbie Williams. Directed by the visionary Michael Gracey, this film combines stunning CGI, a unique narrative approach, and a catalog of Williams’ greatest hits to create a […]

Academy Award winner Sir Christopher Nolan announces Homer’s ‘The Odyssey’ as next picture

Academy Award-winner Sir Christopher Nolan is a filmmaker of immense creative thought and talent, and following his Academy-Award-winning work for the WWII epic Oppenheimer, he has now confirmed that his next picture will be an adaptation of Homer’s classic The Odyssey. Just announced by Universal Pictures and confirmed by Deadline, Nolan will write and direct the epic picture […]

Hobbiton welcomes the people of Rohan for a spectacular premiere event for ‘The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim’

The world-famous HobbitonTM Movie Set was brought to life on December 10 as voice cast, filmmakers and fans gathered to celebrate the upcoming release of The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim. Following the New Zealand premiere screening of the film at Hoyts Te Awa – which brought cheers and applause from […]

‘Heretic’ – Review

2024 has been a fantastic year for horror cinema, and there have been a great many curiosities and freaky presentations that have arrived on the big screen. One of the year’s most intriguing and anticipated releases has been Scott Beck and Bryan Woods’s Heretic…. and it’s an undeniably creepy watch. Two young missionaries (Sophie Thatcher, […]