Megan Robinson
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FILM REVIEW: Heart Eyes
Read more: FILM REVIEW: Heart EyesDisclaimer – As a single person, I have never wanted the bad guy to succeed as much as I did in this movie. The year is 1996, a horror film enters the zeitgeist. The film is one of the first mainstream meta films. It is a horror film, commenting about horror films, using horror film…
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FILM REVIEW: Mickey 17
Read more: FILM REVIEW: Mickey 17Director Bong Joon Ho made Parasite in 2019. It was a masterful expression of filmmaking focusing on themes of inequality, exploitation, and the lengths people will go to get themselves a better life. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2019 and went on to win the top prize, the Palme d’Or; the first…
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LSKD to Open Third NZ Store in Mount Maunganui
Read more: LSKD to Open Third NZ Store in Mount MaunganuiLSKD, the Australasian activewear brand renowned for its high-performance sportswear, is thrilled to announce the opening of its third New Zealand based retail store, located in the heart of Mount Maunganui. This opening follows the massive success of LSKD’s Christchurch store, which saw an incredible turnout when it opened in March 2025 with over 900…
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FILM REVIEW: Novocaine
Read more: FILM REVIEW: NovocaineA recurring trope in movies is that autism is like a superpower. Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man was an early example of this. Ben Affleck was a better killer for it in The Accountant. 2018’s The Predator had a young boy with autism, Rory Mckenna (Jacob Tremblay) be able to decipher and understand an alien language in minutes. The problem with…
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FILM REVIEW: Death of a Unicorn
Read more: FILM REVIEW: Death of a UnicornGriff is the best, more on that later. Death of a Unicorn (Dir Alex Scharfman – Resurrection, Blow the Man Down) is a film about lawyer Elliot Kitner (Paul Rudd – Ant-Man, Clueless, This is 40) and his daughter Ridley (Jenna Ortega – Scream VI, Wednesday) as they go to corporate retreat to discuss Elliot’s future role in…
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Latest opshop review: Opshops of Mangawhai Heads
Read more: Latest opshop review: Opshops of Mangawhai HeadsMy latest opshop review takes you to beautiful Mangawhai Heads north of Auckland where I check out their three main charity stores: St John’s in Moir Street, Mangawhai Opportunity Factory in Wood Street, and North Haven Hospice opshop also in Moir Street, which all benefit the local community in various areas of need. St John’s…
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Couture in the Gardens 2025
Read more: Couture in the Gardens 2025A stunning day down in Hamilton for their arts festival’s stylish highlight: Couture in the Gardens, featuring fashion designer and Waikato resident Jacqueline Anne Atelier’s designs set amongst the fountains in the grand courtyard at the Italian Renaissance Garden. Part of Hamilton Arts Festival Toi Ora Ki Kirikiriroa 2025, the ticketed fashion show ($20 to…
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LIVE NATION UNVEILS 2025 GEN Z TRENDS
Read more: LIVE NATION UNVEILS 2025 GEN Z TRENDSGEN Z GO BEYOND THE SCREEN TO EMBRACE “REALNESS”, NOSTALGIA AND “IRL” EXPERIENCES, CROWNING MUSIC ARTISTS AS THEIR HEROES I headed along to hear about GEN Z trends at The Tuning Fork in Auckland in March 2025 presented by Connect by Live Nation, a leading sponsorship, creative and experiential agency in music. They have released their…
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Matakana Retreat – Luxury Off Grid Lodge in Nature
Read more: Matakana Retreat – Luxury Off Grid Lodge in NatureImagine waking to birdsong, surrounded by bush and no-one else in sight, let alone traffic noise? This was my reality last month, when I took the family to stay at Matakana Retreat, a luxury off-grid home just quarter of hour from beautiful Matakana village north of Warkworth, New Zealand. The wooden home had been recently…
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FILM REVIEW: I’m Still Here
Read more: FILM REVIEW: I’m Still HereHistory doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes, or so the saying goes by Mark Twain. We find ourselves in an interesting time full of economic uncertainty, rising inequality, and atrocities happening overseas and we ask ourselves, it couldn’t possibly happen again? Could it? I’m Still Here (dir. Walter Salles) reveals one of these moments in…