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Kingdom Come
If Outrageous Fortune is our local version of a criminal family, then Animal Kingdom is entirely the opposite. It's not even the Australian answer to The Godfather, just an incredibly well done noir crime thriller...
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A fine Predicament
Flight of the Concords star, Jemaine Clement stars in Predicament, an adaptation of the Ronald Hugh Morrieson book about Cedric Williamson, a naïve teenager who gets roped into blackmailing adulterous couples by two shady strangers...
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Wimps and apprentices
Got tweens in the house? We review two new films, one a book adaptation, and one a remake of a Disney classic animation. Anya takes the boys to see Diary of a Wimpy Kid, and The Sorcerer’s Apprentice...
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Glass semi full
Highlights of Semi-Permanent 2010 included action both on and off the stage, with a design book stall, Wordsby tee-shirts, AUT stand and create your own Auckland Super-City drawing competitions...
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A trip to Italy in film
For those of us who can’t quite manage to squeeze a trip to Italy out of the budget this year: fear not. The Italian Film Festival 2010 includes ‘something for everyone from teenagers to non-subtitle-reading husbands’...
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Makin' bakin'
I am an avid sweet tooth, and am known to check out the dessert menu in a restaurant before I choose my main. So I was pretty keen to check out the recently opened Delish Cupcakes, nestled in a block of suburban shops in Forrest Hill...
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No Stress, baby
We all feel at times that we’re owed a mental health day, and on Thursday night, BFM, together with Neutrogena threw an honorary mental health party: the ‘One Less Stress’ Stress Ball, with Ruby Frost and more playing the Wine Cellar...
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More than just surviving
“Guts” is why I like the latest offering from Julia Grace. As a fan of hers from back in her days as lead singer of the electronica band Elevator I was eager to hear her second solo album, Beautiful Survivor...
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Zine and heard
Last Saturday I got to be part of Auckland Zinefest, supporting my daughter Beth as she launched the second issue of her zine Craft - D at St Kevin's Arcade in Karangahape Road. Stacy tells us all about it...
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Run Run Runaway
It's 1975 and rebellious LA teens Joan Jett (Kristen Stewart) and Cherie Currie (Dakota Fanning) meet and become seminal members of The Runaways who will make history and pave the way for generations of girl rockers to come...
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Big Macs
A delightful new edition on the strip of Takapuna Beach's bars and cafes is Mac’s Brew Bar at 134 Hurstmere Road. Thread attended the opening for a pint or two - of course- of Mac's...
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Stall for time
It’s been going for 14 years, and to be honest with you, I think that was probably around the time when I last went to the Women’s Lifestyle Expo in Wellington. My male photographer thought it would be only about tampons and hair ties...
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