With the first entry into Peter Jackson’s upcoming trilogy of The Hobbit only just over a month away, excitement and hype is building for Tolkien and movie fans all over the world. And, being someone who fits into both of those categories, it was only inevitable that I would throw my own two cents worth ... Read on.
I love Peter Jackson’s take on Middle Earth. While I acknowledge that not every Tolkien fan would agree with me, I think it’s just pretty terrific and is one of the best realised cinematic universes I’ve eve... Read on.
There are many ‘hidden contributors’ to modern popular culture. People and/or their texts that have shaped so much of what we see today in mass media (and/or our modern concepts and attitudes towards issues) whose... Read on.
There are a few things we know about fame. One – it’s very fickle. Two – it doesn’t bring happiness (apparently). Three – it’s a commodity that is cherished by individuals, but often claimed by society at large. In New Zealand, we even have an idiom for that notion: “World Famous In New Zealand”. I ... Read on.
If you haven’t had the chance to check out the new Indonesian martial arts sensation (dubbed by many as the greatest action movie made in the last ten years) – The Raid – then you owe it to yourself to get y... Read on.
The words that have erupted from the tongues of many industry watchers and workers over the last few months have been “marketing”, “marketing” and “marketing. Hardly surprising since the biggest ... Read on.
[Ed's note: Click here for Flicks' review on John Carter] I don’t really like the idea of doing ‘film reviews’ of in-release films in a blog like this, but this week I have to make an exception with a little film currently doing the rounds called John Carter. Perhaps you have heard of it? For ... Read on.
Ah, the movies. Like everything that’s bad for you, sometimes one just isn’t enough. The culture of DOUBLE and TRIPLE FEATURES has pretty much fallen out of the mainstream, but the terminology still remains to thi... Read on.
And so another year passes and we find ourselves knee-deep in the mire of low expectations as a we look forward to another 12 months of sensory assault by the movie industry, clamoring for a share of your hard-earned cash in ... Read on.
Movies are illusions from start to finish. Everyone (we hope) knows this. Even documentaries present a perspective on reality, not reality in of itself. Movies are, at best, reality augmented and filtered through the pores of perspective and then reconstructed on the scaffolding of artistic interpretation. Time, place, performance, sound, picture, all are nothing more ... Read on.
In the course of human existence and that experiential medium that we call “life”, there are few things that people could argue ennoble our species more than the power of speech…or more precisely the power t... Read on.
As my esteemed colleague Liam “Man Of 100 Words” Maguren has probably brought to your attention, I currently have a film project which is battling it out in the final public voting rounds of the MAKE MY MOVIE Comp... Read on.