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Movie Review: Awkwafina stars in The Farewell
Read more: Movie Review: Awkwafina stars in The FarewellIt is easy to make the argument that The Farewell (dir. Lulu Wang) is the sister film to 2018’s super successful if somewhat saccharine Crazy Rich Asians. The obvious bridging element is Awkwafina, who was a scene-stealer in Crazy Rich Asians and the morose lead in The Farewell. I think it is an oversimplification to…
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Film Review: The Kitchen
Read more: Film Review: The KitchenIn 1887, Lord Acton wrote the now-famous line “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Robert A. Caro, who has written and researched extensively around the dynamics of power doesn’t think that axiom still works. In his book Passage of Power, he wrote “I don’t believe its always true any more… What I…
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Once the Musical at ASB Waterfront Theatre: A Q&A with its youngest star, Lucia Yoon
Read more: Once the Musical at ASB Waterfront Theatre: A Q&A with its youngest star, Lucia YoonI was very fortunate to be invited to attend the opening night of Once the Musical at ASB Waterfront Theatre last week in Auckland too see a fabulous live show performed with loads of heart recreating the iconic movie ONCE, starring Kiwi actors including Lisa Crawley in the roles. Ivanka, the lead actress daughter, played…
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War Horse is like watching magic
Read more: War Horse is like watching magicFor me seeing War Horse by National Theatre of London here on stage at Auckland’s Civic Theatre, the highlight by far was the breathtaking puppetry. The music is pretty, the story sweet and the actors able, but the animals – from the swooping birds to the hilarious goose to the magnificent horses – are just…
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Film Review: Luc Besson’s ANNA
Read more: Film Review: Luc Besson’s ANNAFull disclosure, I did the motion capture for Valerian in the film Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets by Luc Besson. It was fun to work with him, he’s super French. I am a big fan of Léon: The Professional and The Fifth Element so I was really looking forward to seeing his…
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Crafternoon Tea Comes To Cordis Auckland
Read more: Crafternoon Tea Comes To Cordis AucklandMID-CHRISTMAS CRAFTERNOON TEA MARKET AT CORDIS AUCKLAND on 4 July 2019 – FREE ENTRY Cordis Auckland introduces its first Crafternoon Tea Market on 14 July 2019 with an open day from 10am to 3pm, showcasing a number of market stalls, they will feature an assortment of delicious food, arts, crafts, locally designed gifts and bespoke…
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Winter Garden at The Glass Goose
Read more: Winter Garden at The Glass GoosepThe Glass Goose is bringing the winter season in with style this June, with a month-long Winter Garden Pop-Up presented by leading New Zealand wine brand, Stoneleigh. Follow nature’s lead and step inside a secret-garden world that brings the wonder of nature to life with creeping vines, winter tide florals and beautiful wisterias. Launching on…
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Shiitake Cooking Class with Meadow Mushrooms
Read more: Shiitake Cooking Class with Meadow MushroomsI was lucky enough to attend the Meadow Mushrooms shiitake launch last Thursday with delicious food and opportunity to learn a bit more about cooking with shiitake mushrooms hosted by Nadia Lim and Miranda Burdon, Chair of Meadow Mushroom. In 1970 Meadow Mushrooms was founded in Christchurch and has been a family owned business since.…
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Movie Review: Godzilla King of the Monsters
Read more: Movie Review: Godzilla King of the MonstersGodzilla: King of the Monsters (dir. Michael Dougherty) is a sequel to the 2014 reboot Godzilla which was surprisingly fun. This film starts off in the aftermath of the previous film where Godzilla had just destroyed a city fighting another huge monster. All of these monsters, Godzilla included, are called Titan. Now the world is…
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Movie Review: John Wick 3 Parabellum, starring Keanu Reeves
Read more: Movie Review: John Wick 3 Parabellum, starring Keanu ReevesI really like ice cream. My favourite is Goodie Goodie Gumdrops. The colour is blatantly artificial, but the combination of sweet ice cream and little lollies really does it for me, even though, after I finish I think I shouldn’t have eaten it. There are many delicious flavours and most are terrific. Some are not…