In Review: A Simple Favor
Review by Chelsea Pickens
As I think is probably true with a lot people, I only really know Blake Lively as the ‘cool sexy girl’ from Gossip girl and poppy teen-targeted movies like Age of Adeline, and Anna K...
In Review: Crazy Good Fun in ‘Crazy Rich Asians’
I was terrified I wasn’t going to like this film. As someone who works in the Arts and thinks constantly about Asian representation, its central premise was an unappealing one; a nasty Singaporean mother-in-law...
The Happytime Murders Puppets Attempt Kiwi Slang
The New Zealand vernacular can often confuse tourists and migrants to our fair shores but from the looks of it, puppets find it even more difficult!
Two of the puppet stars of the new action-comedy from Hens...
Interview: Director Corin Hardy discusses his new film “The Nun”
If you haven't heard about Corin Hardy's upcoming horror film, The Nun, the latest release in the 'Conjuring Universe' then you've probably heard about the controversy surrounding it. Yes, it's the same film wh...
Interview: Taissa Farmiga talks “The Nun”
If you haven't heard about Corin Hardy's upcoming horror film, The Nun, the latest release in the 'Conjuring Universe' then you've probably heard about the controversy surrounding it. Yes, it's the same film wh...
Interview: Jason Statham, Ruby Rose, and Li Bingbing talk “The Meg”
Directed by Jon Turteltaub, The Meg is a blockbuster B-movie with action, thrills, and Jason Statham punching sharks. What more could you want from a summer blockbuster? Apparently not much, as the film has bee...
Dwayne Johnson, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and Joe Manganiello talk Rampage
Directed by Brad Peyton, the action-adventure smash ‘em up flick Rampage (our review here) follows what happens when the gorilla best friend of primatologist Davis Okoye (Dwayne Johnson), who has been in his ca...
7.6
In Review: Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson’s “Rampage”
With the insanely shit weather driving a lot of us Kiwis to the cinemas, it is with some relief that I can state without reservation that director Brad Peyton’s (San Andreas) “Rampage” is exactly what you expec...
Watch: Jason Statham fights a Mega Shark? Yes Please.
There's something about sharks that spike the imagination. Though they don't actually attack many people we still seem to fear and revere them in equal parts. I used to work for a company that had the Discovery...
7.5
In Review: Tomb Raider
Upon leaving the new Tomb Raider reboot I knew two things for certain. The first of which is that Oscar winner, Alicia Vikander, has well and truly earned the mantel of action star.
The second, and perhaps m...
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, step right up to spend $18.50 of your hard-earned money and...
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 miraculously reappear dressed in a skimpy outfit as the supe...
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 the century. The head of a travelling circus troupe watches on...
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 into New Zealand's Independently owned cinema theatres, a byg...
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 kiwi film about Burt Munro ‘The World’s Fastest Indian’.
F...
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 small on the face of it, a little human. It’s the kind of hist...
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 influence in the world. We are often highly fixated on the China’...
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 topiarist, Abraham Lincoln Pirihi, is a delight to behold.
I h...
Doc Edge In Review: For Ahkeem
FOR AHKEEM
Documentary
United States | 2017 | 89 min | English | Jeremy S. Levine, Landon Van Soest
Review: Glenn Blomfield
This is an excellent and highly emotive documentary film. For Ahkeem follows th...
Doc Edge In Review: California Typewriter
CALIFORNIA TYPEWRITER
Documentary
United States | 2016 | 104 min | English | Doug Nichol
Review: Glenn Blomfield
As I type this, I type with admiration, because I absolutely adored this documentary.
I ...
9.5
In Review: Anomalisa
Whether you’re at the airport or stuck in traffic on the way to work or in a crowded restaurant, you’re the star of the movie of your life.
You might have a co-star in the form of your significant other, and...