Film

Helen hits the International Film Festival in Auckland for a taste of what the film fest has on offer for 2010. Here, a theme of women, with Joan Rivers, Women Without Men, and more…

NZ International Film Festival 2010 has two fashion related titles; Bill Cunningham New York and Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, and the fashion minded would be interested in the exquisite I Am Love and the Italian classic Senso…

Films are often a little too grown up (read scary), or overly complicated, or violent. It is a rare thing a genuine family-friendly, well-made film. Toy Story broke the mold all those years ago and now the must-see Toy Story 3 is out in 3D…

Harry Brown, set in London and starring Michael Caine, has all the ingredients you’d think would make it a provocative, suspenseful dark art house thriller but it spirals into a trashy revenge flick of youth stereotypes and gratuitous violence…

The film Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky opens in Paris in 1913 at the Theatre Des Champs-Elysees with Russian composer Igor Stravinsky (Mikkelsen) debuting his key piece The Rite of Spring – with Coco Chanel captivated in the audience…

Predictable characters + predictable plot + predictable character backgrounds + predictable action sequences = unpredictably good movie. I thoroughly enjoyed The A Team because, like Hannibal, I love it when a plan comes together…

Directed by Richard Linklater, and adapted by Holly Gent Palmo and Vincent Palmo Jr., ‘Me and Orson Welles’ was shot in the Isle of Man, London and New York in early 2008. We learn right from the get-go, that Welles is a womaniser…

Micmacs is the much-anticipated new film from Jean-Pierre Jeunet, the director of Amelie, A Very Long Engagement and Delicatessen. All of Jeunet’s films are developed around the Tom Thumb theme of an orphan fighting a monster…

The Last Station is in fact two love stories; Tolstoy, a prominent public figure in the burgeoning global media toward the end of his life finds himself torn between his own ideals and his wife and lover of 48 years, Countess Sofya..

Homegrown talent Martin Henderson plays ‘young’ Ed and manages to strike the balance between mischievous adventurer and well-intentioned family man, in Home by Christmas, a remarkable new film by NZ director Gaylene Preston…