Cinema operators feared for their industry when the major Hollywood studios withheld movies during the height of the Covid-19 closures. Now that most cinemas have reopened in North America and Europe, as well as in the major Asian markets, those fears have subsided. This year’s box office trends in New Zealand, where cinemas remained open, … Read More about Marvel’s back in business
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De Gaulle’s darkest hours
Unlike their World War II allies, the French ... Read More about De Gaulle’s darkest hours
Festivals make comeback
Festivals have returned to cinemas and look here ... Read More about Festivals make comeback
A life of faith commitment covered
ADVENTURES OF A PILGRIM, by Don Brebner (289pp, ... Read More about A life of faith commitment covered
The Productivity Commission recently defined the country’s top 10 exporting companies as frontier firms. They were progressive, innovative, forward-thinking and outward-looking. America has produced a rich vein of frontier films to depict the expansion of foreign settlers into lands occupied by indigenous peoples. New Zealand, too, has depicted its frontier … Read More about Frontier drama needs patience
If every day seems to be like yesterday, and the one you might have tomorrow, you are in a “time loop”, or sensing what the French call déja vu. It’s popped up several times lately in movies, perhaps reflecting or coinciding with the past year of lockdowns and people working remotely … Read More about Time for every purpose
Espionage stories, whether fact or fiction, have been a cinema staple since its earliest days. The first flowering was in the 1930s, followed by World War II, when deep cover and double agents exposed military secrets on both sides. In the Cold War, Allied intelligence services ramped up their activities … Read More about An agent in the field
The lack of Easter-themed movies at the cinema has been exacerbated by Hollywood’s freeze on big-budget movies in the time of the Covid-19 pandemic. The central event of the Christian religion has been sidelined since the epics thrived in the 1950s and 1960s. These biblical classics are still available through … Read More about Easter viewing at home
Movies on mental illness will inevitably be judged by one’s own experience, whether close or casual. This degree of scrutiny hasn’t deterred film-makers from tackling this tricky subject. In decades past, movies set in mental institutions could be viewed as too remote to make an accurate judgment, given they were … Read More about Madness of the heart
The classic Hollywood man-on-a-horse western has all but disappeared, a victim of changing attitudes toward America’s colonial past and the rewriting of history according to modern trends. That decline started after the 1970s, which produced the last movies depicting heroic pioneer settlers as positive and progressive. Baddies always existed in … Read More about Hanks is on a mission
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