The annual festival season is under way, and that means a torrent of foreign films. Yet the multiplexes these days, at least in Auckland, show fewer English language movies. Instead, they are more likely to be in Mandarin, Hindi, and Tagalog. Of course, the arthouse cinemas are still devoted to predominantly European productions. A festival … Read More about Festival spotlights ‘parcel children’
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Epic ice journey retold
Few tales from the heroic age of Antarctic ... Read More about Epic ice journey retold
Where worlds collide
Authoritarian states have historically put a lot ... Read More about Where worlds collide
Looking back at the best of 2022
Movie attendances bounced back in 2022 as quantity ... Read More about Looking back at the best of 2022
The superiority of what streaming services provide for home entertainment is more obvious when cinemas can only rustle up second-class fare. This has been the case for several months, thanks to Hollywood studios falling behind on their usual blockbuster attractions, known as tentpoles, and other factors that may not all … Read More about Sherlock’s detective sister
The decline of Netflix is an example of Mark Twain’s saying that rumours of his death are greatly exaggerated. A drop in global subscriptions, due to a more competitive environment, was reversed in the company’s latest report. A more interesting aspect of Netflix’s future is whether it will embrace theatrical … Read More about Legend survives fictional life
It is a conventional view of history that World War I could have been prevented and its tragic legacy avoided. Apart from history-telling, it left a large trove of literature, notably Britain’s war poets. Few parents of baby boomers would have left New Zealand high schools without being able to … Read More about War poet’s survival guilt
Between March 12 and April 6, 1930, the world’s media contained daily reports of an Indian protest march from the Sabarmati ashram to Dandi on Gujarat’s western coast. Led by Mahatma Gandhi, it became the symbolic start of anti-colonial resistance using non-violent methods. The “salt march” was one of the … Read More about Dame Whina’s long march
BUT WHAT IS THE CHURCH FOR? by Neil Darragh. Accent Publications. 2021. 204pp $40. Reviewed by Br RICHARD DUNLEAVY, FMS An arresting title! The sub-title explains it more specifically: “What is the mission of the local Church?”. When I first leafed through the book from the back, I was struck … Read More about NZ priest asks: What is the Church for?
Ian Fleming’s minor role in the war drama Operation Mincemeat was greatly outweighed by his later fame as an author. Fleming, an officer in British Naval Intelligence, had earlier been in charge of Operation Goldeneye, a stay-behind plan to prevent a possible alliance between Spain’s Generalissimo Franco and the Axis … Read More about The Godfather after 50 years
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