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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...

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...

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’...

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...

Too many secrets

As a former anthropology student I had a special interest in ‘Secrets of the Tribe’, the story of how egotistical anthropologists exploited the Brazilian Indian tribe Yamomani in the 1970s...

Seeking asylum

The synopses of Kathy Dudding's Asylum Pieces described it as a 'personal essay' looking at what the architecture of mental asylums could tell us of how mental illness has been treated...

Exit through the Film Fest

The tables are turned on the director in an entertaining doco about the enigmatic street artist Banksy, a 20-year old directs an insightful teen angst film, and a critical look at the War on Terror...

London Assurance

This weekend only see the hilarious film LONDON ASSURANCE, a brilliantly funny Victorian comedy from National Theatre. Thread attended the preview screening and loved it...

Women in the Film Festival

Helen hits the International Film Festival in Auckland for a taste of what the film fest has on offer for 2010. Here, a theme of women, with Joan Rivers, Women Without Men, and more...

Fashion festival films

NZ International Film Festival 2010 has two fashion related titles; Bill Cunningham New York and Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, and the fashion minded would be interested in the exquisite I Am Love and the Italian classic Senso...

Toying with us again

Films are often a little too grown up (read scary), or overly complicated, or violent. It is a rare thing a genuine family-friendly, well-made film. Toy Story broke the mold all those years ago and now the must-see Toy Story 3 is out in 3D...