Television
NZ Shorts and Docos: making waves in the US
The Six Dollar Fifty Man has won the top prize- the Jury Prize in International Short Filmmaking- at Sundance in…
New Zealand Weekly Box Office to 27 January, 2010
You probably don't need telling that Avatar became the biggest thing ever earlier this week, and is still taking well…
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief: all Greek to me
Twentieth Century Fox International is inviting one and all to log in and meet the four young stars of Percy…
Tom Hern: I'm not Harry Jenson, just a bit tired
Tom Hern produced the independently-financed I'm Not Harry Jenson, made for $175,000 and which opens tomorrow. He took time out…
SPADA: criticism of LBSPG short-sighted
SPADA responds to Greens co-leader Russel Norman's suggestions that $45 million was too high a price for NZ to pay…
DOCNZ is dead: long live Documentary Edge
The Documentary New Zealand Trust, organiser of the last 4 DOCNZ festivals and accompanying Summits, threw out the old and…
Avatar: robs Kiwis of hospital beds, care for sick animals, shoes for children, etc etc
James Cameron and producer John Landau came, saw, made some big blue things, shot them, and the only cleaning up…
Boy: love and loathing in the snow
Taika Waititi's Boy premiered at Sundance on Saturday our time. The first review was discouraging, the second more positive. 48…
Last Paradise: globally warmed to in sub-zero environment
Not being fans of the cold, we asked Last Paradise filmmaker Clive Neeson to report on his 45-years in the…
Killer Elite: Home Grown Blockbuster for Victoria
The star of action films The Transporter and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Jason Statham, is coming to Victoria…