Book Review by Laura Lynch – 14/07/01 Indigenous women from Australia, Bougainville, East Timor, French Polynesia, Hawaii, West Papua, Marshall Islands, New Zealand and Palau have overcome incredible odds to tell their stories of survival in a joint publication, Pacific Women Speak Out for Independence and Denuclearisation by Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom…
Dorothy – 2/2/01 Scilla Elworthy Scilla Elworthy who comes from the United Kingdom is Director of the Oxford Research Group which she founded in 1982 – a group committed to working for peace and aiming first to find out how nuclear decisions are made and who makes them. She now travels widely bringing together those…
Film Review – Conrad – 8/12/00 Guy Ritchie brings us a London gangster comedy in the same vein as his earlier ‘Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels’, and delivers a similarly fast paced, complex weave of characters and plot that entertains from beginning to end. Attempting to explain the plot would involve describing a large…
Film Review – Conrad – 17/11/00 New York, New York! – where models work as barmaids, dreams are derailed, and good looks and talent are not enough on their own for you to ‘make it’. Violet Sanford (Piper Perabo) dreams of taking her song writing talent to New York and ‘making it’, only to find…
By Jim Anderton – Published by Random House, 1999 Reviewed by Bob Bargh – 27/10/00 From the beginning Pakeha New Zealanders have struggled to establish and define a national identity for themselves. Throughout our history this quest for a defining construct has challenged the creativity of New Zealanders working in arts and crafts. Some of…
Film Review – Conrad – 13/10/00 Starring the Colosseum, and ably supported by Russell Crowe’s battered body, this movie does a surface scan of the bloody carnage created by gladiatorial combat provided as entertainment for the Roman masses, and the clandestine violence perpetrated by the young Caesar Commodus in his desperation for power. He’s a…
Film Review – Margaret – 6/10/00 I went to this film at short notice having heard only that a friend had found it entertaining – and it is, but it offers a great deal more than entertainment. A surprising film The first word that comes to my mind to describe this film is ‘surprising’. It…
Film Review – Margaret – 15/9/00 Magik and Rose – the intriguing title raises in our minds contrasted images. Vanessa Alexander, writer and director, uses contrasts powerfully throughout the film. Contrasted characters Magik, an unconventional name with odd spelling, really suits the character of Magik, the phoney fortune teller who at the very beginning of…
Film Review – Margaret – 1/9/00 Put your preconceptions of Jane Austen’s novels on one side and go to this film and I think you will enjoy it. You will also come out able to join in the spirited conversations which are happening among so many filmgoers and Jane Austen addicts. "Mansfield Park" was on…
Film Review – Margaret – 25/8/00 I went to this film expecting to see an interesting documentary and hear good music. What I experienced was so much more! If you feel depressed by all the doom and gloom fed to us by the news media and want your spirits lifted don’t miss this film. How…
