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Director 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…

Imagine 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…