Film
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Kate Winslet and Alan Rickman in A Little Chaos
Read more: Kate Winslet and Alan Rickman in A Little ChaosA LITTLE CHAOS 2.5/5 There’s two kinds of people on the planet. There’s your well-ordered ones who like a well-ordered world, all straight lines and neat boxes. They poo-poo creative clutter. They want everything to be just so and just right. The others are all higgledy-piggledy, order-in-chaos, finding beauty in the askance and askew. Both…
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Film review: X+Y maths + love
Read more: Film review: X+Y maths + loveX+Y (2014, UK) We are all of us, whether we acknowledge them or not, part of a family. We’ve all had mothers and fathers (or, at least, someone who looked after us when we were growing up), and some of us have children of our own. Tieing us to our families is this mysterious thing…
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Film review: Disney’s Big Hero 6
Read more: Film review: Disney’s Big Hero 6We headed along to Disney’s Big Hero 6 on 7th December at Sylvia Park at the media screening session. The kids loved it and it was entertaining for us parents, too. It’s a massive movie that almost covers 10 comic books in one movie. Whilst the poster tagline states it’s from the creators of big…
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Ari Seth Cohen’s Advanced Style doco comes to New Zealand
Read more: Ari Seth Cohen’s Advanced Style doco comes to New ZealandAri Seth Cohen of Advanced Style has released an incredible doco starring some of the women who star in his photography on his Advanced Style blog of stylish older women, in their 70s, 80s, and 90s. The film opens on Thursday the 4th of December in Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington & Dunedin with Christchurch opening on…
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Flowers in the Attic & Petals on the Wind
Read more: Flowers in the Attic & Petals on the WindThe V C Andrews novels Flowers in the Attic & Petals on the Wind were pretty much defining – and polarising – novels of my adolescence. They were followed by sequels If There Be Thorns, Seeds of Yesterday, and Garden of Shadows. Everyone at school either read them, wasn’t allowed to read them, or was…
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My latest must-see movie: Chef
Read more: My latest must-see movie: ChefMy latest must-see movie: Chef. I give it 8/10, and this film is out this week on IGLOO from 26th September so you can watch it from your couch…whilst eating! Make lemonade Much as I feel the classic line: “when life gives you lemons, make lemonade” is a touch corny, that’s exactly what sums up…
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We love: Amy Schumer
Read more: We love: Amy SchumerWhat do you know about Amy Schumer? You may know her name from her first comedy series and from Comedy Central. This week, I’m excited that her second series is starting up which we can watch on Igloo TV here in New Zealand. Inside Amy Schumer Series 2 features her fabulous scripted vignettes, as well…
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Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
Read more: Percy Jackson: Sea of MonstersMy children are great admirers (and readers) of the Percy Jackson series. They were disappointed with the first film, Percy Jackson and The Lightning Thief…
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One to watch
Read more: One to watchI like watching films – but never get out to the video shop – so I’m finding the choice and convenience (not to mention the cost effectiveness) of Igloo TV really great…
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One Direction – This is Us
Read more: One Direction – This is UsThe One Direction movie, This is Us, is, in my opinion, the perfect mixture of concert and private lives of the boy band…