Personal Archaeology
The Politicisation of Remembering —Judge Dredd and Horror Stories
The Politicisation of Remembering —Judge Dredd and Horror Stories
Pedro Almodovar’s fresh take on the Hitchcock classic about sex, obsession and second chances
When life is a war game, you need friends to survive
Even buzz bands make only tiny little buzzes
The films of Terrence Malick, from Badlands to Tree of Life
Life (and love) is a dream shared, in Philippa Pearce’s classic novel
A biography of the man responsible for much of the folk, blues and subsequent pop music traditions we know today
The understated horror of Never Let Me Go
Ludwig Bemelmans had a few childhood scars of his own
Laneways beats the Big Day Out, hands down
How Disney (and others) teach children that living in a nice suburban home beats living free in the city
In Melancholia Lars von Trier hives off serenely into the cosmos
This time, Werner Herzog’s process of turning obsession into art begins with art
We’re all busy making plans for the past
The ethical and stylistic issues in using real-life war zones as a basis for contemporary fiction
Bela Tarr’s The Turin Horse, and the controversy about slow cinema
The Complicatist : Love and Mining Disasters
Neil Gaiman’s brand of horror lite is aimed at parents, as much as kids
In anticipation of Steven Spielberg’s The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of Unicorn due December 2011
In the 1970s, New York (and Martin Scorsese) were a lot sleazier and scarier…
The birth of documentaries as real life fictions…
Desperation has its funnier moments
Grasping the ‘Contemporary’ in Contemporary Fiction
Tim Bollinger is a Wellington cartoonist with a thirty-year career drawing and writing comics.
Madeleine L’Engle’s nutty politico-religious parable for children still has its admirers
Auckland singer songwriter Hollie Fulbrook (aka Tiny Ruins) makes her debut
Horror, in one 79 minute long take
Where to draw the line on when enough’s enough
The role of globalisation and the avant–garde in Grant Morrison’s Batman
Reviews, commentary and comics from local artists
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