NZIFF: Last Child, Bisbee ‘17, Dog’s Best Friend, Mandy, Skate Kitchen

The eighth installment from our team film critics swarming the cinemas of Auckland and Wellington for the 2018 NZ International Film Festival. See also: Birds of Passage, First Reformed, Disobedience, 3 Faces In the Aisles, The Image Book, Apostasy, Brimstone and Glory You Were Never Really Here, Kusama – Infinity, Transit, Yellow is Forbidden, Piercing, Terrified, The … Read more

NZIFF: Burning, An Elephant Sitting Still, Thelma, Border, The Atlantic

The seventh installment from our team film critics swarming the cinemas of Auckland and Wellington for the 2018 NZ International Film Festival. See also: Birds of Passage, First Reformed, Disobedience, 3 Faces In the Aisles, The Image Book, Apostasy, Brimstone and Glory You Were Never Really Here, Kusama – Infinity, Transit, Yellow is Forbidden, Piercing, Terrified, … Read more

NZIFF: You Were Never Really Here, Kusama, Transit, Yellow is Forbidden & more

The third installment from our team film critics swarming the cinemas of Auckland and Wellington for the 2018 NZ International Film Festival. See also: Birds of Passage, First Reformed, Disobedience, 3 Faces In the Aisles, The Image Book, Apostasy, Brimstone and Glory   You Were Never Really Here Not everybody likes Lynne Ramsay’s brand of cinematic … Read more

NZIFF: Birds of Passage, First Reformed, Disobedience, 3 Faces

Our elite squad of critics binge set out on a cinematic binge at the NZ International Film Festival 2018 Birds of Passage Opening night at NZIFF should be spectacular, accessible and memorable, and Birds of Passage delivers, with a drug trade parable told within an indigenous setting. Every grasshopper and bird has the weight of … Read more

David Farrier goes to the Auckland International Film Festival and, guess what, it is total balls

Last month, David Farrier discovered a mysterious film festival that was confusing the hell out of people. In part 2, Farrier slowly went crazy trying to find out who was actually behind the festival. Now, the mysterious AIFF has finally come to pass. OK, so where were we? That’s right. A man called Mitesh Patel, … Read more