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Highlights of Splore Festival 2024 – FEASTY!
With a fabulous 2024 festival theme of FEASTY, we literally and metaphorically feasted upon festival fashion, music, sculpture, food, fun and festivities galore, at Splore Festival!
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FILM REVIEW: Drive Away Dolls
I made a flippant joke when I saw the poster for Drive Away Dolls (dir Ethan Coen) where I called it two girls, one car.
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FILM REVIEW: DUNE Part Two
“You inherit too much power”, Reverend Mother Mohiam (Charlotte Rampling), leader of the Bene Gesserit order, snarks at Paul Atredides (Timothée Chalamet).
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FILM REVIEW: Force of Nature: The Dry 2
We all have trauma, some of it small t trauma and some of it big T trauma. What we do about the trauma, big or small affects how we live and engage with the people in our lives.
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Abstract Hotel lifts curtains to bring a Brooklyn feel to K’ Rd
Templeton Group has raised the curtains on Abstract Auckland, after a blessing by Ngāti Whātua Ōrakei, adding a chic New York-style boutique hotel to the creativity and vibrancy of K’
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FILM REVIEW: Bob Marley: One Love
There has been a torrent of modern music biopics.
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Splore Festival releases entertainment programme
Splore Festival releases entertainment programme across nine zones
Listening Lounge debates hot topics of our times
The timetable for Splore’s nine zones of entertainment
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FILM REVIEW: The Iron Claw
Kayfabe. Noun: (in professional wrestling) the fact or convention of presenting staged performances as genuine or authentic. “A masterful job of blending kayfabe and reality.
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Splore Festival announces arts programme
The Splore Festival programme is polished to perfection and the resplendent Tāpapakanga Regional Park is ready to receive thousands of Splorers, welcomed onto the whenua by Ngāt
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FILM REVIEW: Wonka
1964, Tokyo hosted the 18th Summer Olympics, we were nearly entering space, The Beatles were taking the US by storm, while race riots were ripping the US apart.