If nothing else, the latest Mission:  Impossible movie proves that Tom Cruise is unquestionably still a movie star. Now closer to 70 than 40, he’s still […]

The objectionable cinematic provocateur Gaspar Noe has once again thrust his creative vision into the festival scene with Climax. His latest project centres on a group […]

Just so you know what you’re in for, my sister called this “the best movie” she’s “ever seen”. Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again is the […]

A fire needs three things to burn: fuel, oxygen, and heat. All three are ever present, and Burning is interested more in the lead-up to the […]

Social media’s capacity for enabling harm becomes alarmingly crystallized in Moritz Riesewieck and Hans Block’s documentary on the labour of outsourced content moderation in the Philippines. […]

Mandy has a bit of a reputation. The original promotional image for this film – heavily used in promotional material put out by the NZIFF – […]

The most ANTicipated sequel of the year, HAHAHA. The best string of unnecessary synonyms to describe this film? Huge, bloated, ungainly, obese and colossal. It is […]

Chauka, Please Tell Us The Time is a documentary filmed entirely on an iPhone by Behrouz Boochani who is currently being detained in the Manus Island […]