Movies

Boy

War games: Te Aho Eketone-Whitu (Rocky), James Rolleston (Boy) and Taika Waititi (Alamein) in Boy.

WHO could have predicted that an untrained pre-pubescent actor would propel a small-budget film into the highest grossing New Zealand flick of all time? more »

Cairo Time

Egyptian exotica: Tareq (Alexander Siddig) and Juliette (Patricia Clarkson) in Cairo Time.

ANCIENT pyramids silhouetted against scorching desert sun, rosewater-infused thick, black coffee, cinnamon-scented air, elaborately bejewelled galabeyas and headscarves in vibrant hues of magenta and cyan, and the reverberating azaan. more »

The Expendables

Sly Stallone leads the charge of action heroes in The Expendables.

IT’S action film glory days revisited when director and star Sylvester Stallone teams up with a rollcall of action heroes of the last three decades in The Expendables. more »

Salt

Evelyn Salt (Angelina Jolie) in one of many disguises.

RUSSIAN sleeper spies in America. more »

Four Lions

Not so keen on blowing himself up, Faisal (Adeel Akhtar), attempts to train a crow bomber.

TERRORISM: Ten years ago, it was something that only happened in certain parts of the world that you weren’t likely to visit anyway. more »

The Special Relationship

Double act: Tony Blair (Michael Sheen) and Bill Clinton (Dennis Quaid) in <I>The Special Relationship</I>.

PETER Morgan – the writer of 2008’s superb character-driven film Frost/Nixon – has turned the microscope to another meeting of egos, this time between US President Bill Clinton (Dennis Quaid) and energetic UK Prime Minister Tony Blair. more »

The Ghost Writer

Kim Cattrall and Ewan McGregor star in the tense political thriller, <I>The Ghost Writer</I>.

ROMAN Polanski must be relieved to be off the news pages and into the arts section with political thriller The Ghost Writer. more »

South Solitary

Miranda Otto arrives on the desolate island that is South Solitary.

IT would be easy to dismiss Shirley Barrett’s (Love Serenade) whimsical period romance South Solitary as another unspectacular and unchallenging Australian film – and many will. more »

Inception

Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Dom Cobb, a man who can invade your dreams and steal ideas, in Christopher Nolan’s follow-up to <I>The Dark Knight, Inception</I>.

TO even begin to try to follow up on the phenomenal success of 2008’s critically lauded The Dark Knight, writer/director Christopher Nolan was always going to have to think outside the box. more »

The waiting game

  In The Waiting City, Radha Mitchell and Joel Edgerton play an Australian couple trying to adopt a child from India.

IN recent years, we have seen many Australian films deal with serious issues like drug abuse and underworld crime, but now Sydney-based screenwriter and director Claire McCarthy is telling a very different Australian story. more »

The Runaways

Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning as Joan Jett and Cherie Currie in <I>The Runaways.</I>

KRISTEN Stewart and Dakota Fanning star as Joan Jett and Cherie Currie in this biopic of 1970s teenage all-girl rock band The Runaways. more »

Every Jack Has A Jill

Jack (Justin Bartha) and Chloe (Melanie Laurent) in <I>Every Jack Has A Jill.</I>

LOVE can be found in the most unexpected of places – even via the contents of a misplaced suitcase, it seems. more »

Same kicks, chops in Karate Kid

Jaden Smith in the film remake of <I>The Karate Kid. </I>

IN 1984, Ralph Macchio starred as Daniel Larusso in the original Karate Kid alongside Japanese-American actor Pat Morita, who played the legendary Mr Miyagi. more »

Creation sure to question God

John Collee’s most recent film is the Charles Darwin biopic <I>Creation.</I> d334591

FROM a doctor’s surgery in Scotland to the Academy Awards, John Collee’s journey from GP to award-winning screenwriter for blockbuster films is a unique one. more »

Marmaduke story a dog’s breakfast

Marmaduke… a giant dog in a Mini car.

WHY does a children’s movie have to start and end with a fart, as Marmaduke does? more »

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