In case you didn’t catch Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz director Edgar Wright’s tweet last week, Paramount Pictures NZ are super duper pleased to announce that Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Martin Freeman and Edgar Wright will attend the New Zealand premiere of The World’s End in Wellington. Their legion of Kiwi fans will get ... Read on.
The much-awaited second announcement from the NZIFF headquarters has landed, bringing with it five more films to add to the six that have been confirmed in the line-up. The NZIFF descriptions of these five new films are as fo... Read on.
Director Todd Phillips, stars Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis and Ed Helms make a trilogy of The Hangover. This time the gang hit the road to take Alan (Galifianakis) to a psychiatric hospital in Mexico. En route they’... Read on.
Riz Ahmed, Kiefer Sutherland and Kate Hudson star in this paranoid thriller following a Pakistani man who, fresh from Princeton University and ready to chase glory on Wall Street, is caught in a cultural divide after New York’s Twin Towers are attacked. Read more and find movie times. Is it ever good to see a ... Read on.
In this Israeli political drama the leader of an elite anti-terrorist unit clashes with a group of young radicals. Writer/director Nadav Lapid explores the violence between Israelis, the different sorts of tribalism, and th... Read on.
I’m a self-confessed fan of the Saw series. One of the very first things I wrote for Flicks as a dropkick intern was a retrospective on the entire series (back when I used MS Paint like the non-professional I was). Th... Read on.
Independent New Zealand comedy following three criminally clueless college buddies who come into possession of three cases of premium grade heroin. When put under the heat of police interrogations, each lad gives their own side of the story. Read more and find movie times. Genre films are something I want to see more of in ... Read on.
There was a flood of news with the unveiling of Microsoft’s new console Xbox One, perhaps the most intriguing to film and TV buffs being the reveal of Steven Spielberg’s executive producer role on an original Halo... Read on.
NZIFF has launched a Boosted campaign to raise $40,000 from public donations to equip the Isaac Theatre Royal with state-of-the-art Digital Cinema Projection facilities. We encourage film fans who enjoy magnificent venues ... Read on.
First reactions to a number of Cannes films have rolled in – not entirely consistent with one another, but hey, wouldn’t that be boring… James Franco directs and stars in an adaptation of William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying, a tale of mourning amidst poverty about which Variety opined: “A little perversity might have been welcome ... Read on.
In a recent interview with IGN, Joss Whedon confirmed two new additions to The Avengers 2 line-up: Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch. For the uninitiated, they are a brother-sister mutant combo, the former possessing superhuman s... Read on.
The people of Flicks have spoken! Mt Zion has won the Flicks People’s Choice Award for Best Film 2012/13 at last week’s NZMPIC awards – which take place at the conclusion of each year’s annual film ind... Read on.