In Review: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone in Concert
There's not a whole lot I love more than Harry Potter. I wear my Hufflepuff house crest with unwavering pride, and yell about the importance of loyalt...
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone in concert is this weekend!
We at The Speakeasy have a slight obsession with Harry Potter. Just under a year ago, we threw ourselves a Harry Potter marathon in which we spent 22 ...
8.5
Wonder Woman Review: Gal Gadot Takes Flight In This Timely Superhero Movie
The scene comes about halfway into Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman, and it’s about as carefully prepared and elegantly executed a reveal as you’ll find th...
In Review: This Beautiful Fantastic
All you young women out there trying to achieve a career in the arts? Maybe you’re like me and trying to make it out there with writing perhaps? Well,...
7.3
In Review: Wonder Woman
Review by Glenn Blomfield
When I was a young lad, Wonder Woman, was a hot wee lass on a TV Show, that would spin around to her own theme music and ...
6
In Review: Monsieur Chocolat
MONSIEUR CHOCOLAT | 119 mins | Director Roschdy Zem
Reviewed by Isabelle Brunton
Monsieur Chocolat lands us in rural France around the turn of th...
Chye-Ling Huang talks about her new play ‘Like Sex’
Prudes, sluts, users and the used - in a carousel of episodic scenes, Like Sex a bold play written by 2015 and 2016 Playmarket b425 Playwright award w...
Doc Edge In Review: The Reel People of New Zealand
THE REEL PEOPLE OF NEW ZEALAND
| Documentary | New Zealand | 2016 | 30 min | Nicholas Homler
Review by Glenn Blomfield
This movie takes a look i...
In Review: Like Sex
Like Sex | The Basement Theatre | 24 May-3 June, 6:30pm
Review by Jennifer Kirby
If you attended high school in New Zealand, chances are you remem...
In Review: McLaren
MCLAREN | 92 mins | Director Roger Donaldson
Reviewed by Glenn Blomfield
Directed by our very own Kiwi Rodger Donaldson, who also made the great k...
In Review: Churchill
CHURCHILL
Reviewed by Amy Mansfield
Right from the start, you get the picture this is big history played by big men who sometimes feel a little sm...
Suffering from comedy withdrawal? Uxbridge Comedy Night is here to help
Suffering from comedy withdrawal? Well, just because the NZ International Comedy Festival is over, that doesn't mean that there aren't plenty of oppor...
Doc Edge Festival 2017: A Glimpse of China
With China’s implementation of the Open Door Policy, as announced by Deng Xiaoping in December of 1978, marking its modernisation and increasing influ...
NZ International Comedy Festival in review: Li’i Alaimoana – “Minority Rapport”
Li'i Alaimoana - Minority Rapport
"I think it's pretty rich, you of all people judging comedy", a friend recently said to me. Well, yeah, fair poin...
NZ International Comedy Festival In Review: Alice Brine in “No One Puts Briney In the Corner”
frenetic
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adjective
adjective: frenetic
1.fast and energetic in a rather wild and uncontrolled way.
"a frenetic pace of activity"
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NZ International Comedy Festival in Review: Angella Dravid – “Down the Rabbit Hole”
Angella Dravid – Down the Rabbit Hole, 18/5/17
Review by Clayton Barnett
Sitting in the front two seats at Angella Dravid’s show, "Down the Rabbit...
Doc Edge in Review: Stickman
STICKMAN
Documentary
2016 | 8 min | Director Rochelle Umaga.
Review Wal Reid
Rochelle Umaga’s short film Stickman about a modern-day Maori topia...
NZ International Comedy Festival In Review: Brendon Green in “Best Friends”
It is clear to see why Brendon Green was a Billy T Award Nominee in 2014 as he’s a great storyteller, clearly intelligent, and has a way with words wh...
NZ International Comedy Festival In Review: Patch Lambert – Terrordactyl
Well here we are folks, the end of the beginning of the end of the NZ International Comedy Festival 2017.
The final week of the Fest has the honour...
NZ International Comedy Festival In Review: Joel Creasey – “The Poser”
Joel Creasey – "The Poser", Loft Q Theatre, 16/05/2017
Review by Wal Reid
He has the most creative disclaimer I’d ever heard, as over the micropho...
NZ International Comedy Festival: Talking Comedy with Ashton Brown
Ashton Brown likes to offer audiences something a little different with his comedy. His new show, Ashton Brown is Anxious To Meet You, delivers a deep...