Film review – Dagny – 4/9/97 I have to say that I think the name of this film is somewhat misleading. I was expecting the title character to be a 4,000 year old South American mummy with a penchant for terrorising museum staff, but this was not the case. It was in fact a genetic…
– Helen – 28/8/97 I have reached the age when my grey hair and crows feet entitle me to air my grievances. It is a truism perhaps but the person who said “Everything has changed, but it has always been that way,” was right . Throughout the centuries the older generation has taken upon itself…
Film review – Dagny – 19/6/97 Given the recent glut of Shakespearean productions on film, one could be forgiven for feeling a little jaded about going to see yet another one. “Oh no, not yet another exquisitely mannered costume drama starring Helena Bonham Carter’s hair!”, one might well think. Well, pause a moment. Al Pacino…
Film review – Conrad – 21/5/97 French director Luc Besson (The Big Blue, The Professional, Nikita) sets up a classic good and evil scenario complete with an intelligent dark force played by a large all consuming ball of fire in space, and aided by the nasty Zorg played by ubiquitous baddy Gary Oldman (is it…
Film review – Conrad – 1/5/97 David Lynch, director of such movies as Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Eraserhead, and television classic Twin Peaks, is back to his enigmatic best with this one. The film stars Bill Pulman, who has all the right facial expressions for a man who doesn’t have a clue what’s going…
Film review – Colette – 27/3/97 Having read Michael Ondaatje’s poetic, Booker Prize-winning novel, “The English Patient”, I had some reservations about the film. I felt it would be too difficult a task for any film maker to bring such an oblique story to life. And to some extent, I feel I was right. The…
Film review – Kelly – 6/3/97 Director: Baz Luhrmann Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes, Brian Dennehy and Peter Postlethwaite A film adaption of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” by the director of “Strictly Ballroom” set in 90s America, could potentially have been a tasteless disaster. Although this film deliberately treads a very fine line between tacky…
Film review – John – 7/2/97 So what do you expect from a movie such as this? Thrills? Despair? Enlightenment? “Michael Collins” tackles a subject that even now has to be regarded as controversial. The film ambitiously traces historical events which are probably still not very well understood outside Ireland. Michael Collins was one of…
– The Wizard Of New Zealand – 30/1/97 Since 1973 many Kiwis and visitors must have had glimpses of a strange, uniquely New Zealand phenomenon, ALF’s Imperial Army. I had founded the Army earlier at Melbourne University to fight battles outside the student and administration buildings as an experiment in “paradoxical intention” to counter the…
Film review – Kelly – 9/1/97 Peter Jackson’s latest film is an entertaining, fast-paced special effects romp which is very enjoyable unless you are expecting the quality and depth of Jackson’s previous feature “Heavenly Creatures”. The plot of “The Frighteners” gets a bit convoluted and the characterisation is minimal but the film’s energy and visual…
