This third series of Broadchurch provided seriously good crime drama, with a confronting subject, dealt with honestly and compellingly – sexual assault. In fact the series did much more than detail a specific crime of rape, but rather used its…
Let’s start with a totally surprising scene in the first part of the film that blew everyone in the audience away. It caught everyone off guard, it was delightful, it brought a smile to everyone’s face, and it was a…
The animated version of this film came out a quarter of a century ago, and I recall seeing it (how many times? Ten, twenty? A hundred?) with my daughter when it subsequently came out on video cassette. That cassette tape…
This science fiction movie had controversy saddled to it before its release, all tied up in how authentically or not these filmmakers would treat the Japanese source material. This was especially so given they’d hired several European actors, such as…
You can’t keep a good giant ape down. This is the eighth Kong film, although only the fourth that’s on my radar. They are the original of 1933, the 1976 version with the famous Jessica Lange bared breast scene (a…
This was very popular here, and in the UK, for both its first two series, so expectations are high for the return of detectives Hardy (David Tennant) and Miller (Olivia Colman) in the southern English coastal town of the title.…
Logan introduces yet another sub genre of superhero movies – the serious, adult drama. It’s full of graphic violence and expletive-laden language. Its tone is light years away from the Avengers, and even though Deadpool also contained the language and…
One lot of fans want some songs, and another lot want something different. So what do you do? You give both what they want. On Saturday night in Auckland, the last night of this current tour, Bruce and band delivered…
On the day of this concert, Bruce told us, he spent some time looking around the centre of Christchurch. It was the eve of the sixth anniversary of the deadliest of Canterbury’s earthquakes, which claimed 185 lives. As he…
I confess I’m finding it difficult to review Silence, or at least, to give one clear and definitive statement for it. At times I was engrossed by it, and at others, I was weary of it. Its two hour forty…