Alan A Brash – 7/7/00 What does the word Passchendaele mean to you? If, according to Glyn Harper, the word just reminds you of one of the many places in Europe where World War I was fought, and nothing more, you are a typical New Zealander in that respect. Glyn Harper has this year published…
Reviewed by Jacqueline Steincamp – 11/2/00 “The Unforgiving Minute: A Life of Rudyard Kipling” by Harry Ricketts. Published by Chatto and Windus 1999 We all know of Rudyard Kipling, but Harry Ricketts? Who is he? How come a new Zealand author has written the life of a man sometimes sneered at as the ‘bandleader for…
Dorothy – 4/2/00 Bent Not Broken – front cover Bent Not Broken The frank account of the life of Lauren Roche who achieves a seemingly impossible ambition after years of destructive experiences Bent Not Broken – front cover – Photo of Lauren by Vlad Petrovic, Images by Woolf, Streetwalker deatil from mural designed by…
Conrad – 5/11/99 Written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan Starring Bruce Willis, Toni Colette, Haley Joel Osmond. One criteria for judging a film can be the amount of time you spend thinking or talking about it afterwards, and on that count The Sixth Sense scores highly for me. In fact it stayed with me…
Reviewed by Juliet Neill – 8/10/99 Watea – performed by the inmates of Christchurch Women’s Prison Directed by Jim Moriarty in conjunction with the Christchurch International Festival of the Arts, at Christchurch Women’s Prison, Templeton, 22 July to 8 August 1999. July 27th was a snarling winter’s night. Numerous people left their cars on the…
Film Review – Louise Lay – 18/9/98 1998-USA-127 min. Joel and Ethan Cohen – Director/Producer/Screen writers Is The Big Lebowski just another zany bowling-noir film? At 127 minutes, the latest offering by the enigmatic, Joel and Ethan Coen (director/writers of Fargo, Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, and The Hudsucker Proxy), could turn ‘dullsville’ bowling into the…
Film Review – Kelly Andrew – 4/7/98 Starring: Stephen Dillane, Woody Harrelson, Marisa Tomie and Kerry Fox. Directed by Michael Winterbottom. The irony of the title “Welcome to Sarajevo” is an early indication that this is not a film which attempts to romanticise or elevate war. Instead the film, based on the true experiences of…
Film Review – Amy Duncan – 23/5/98 Starring: Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear, Cuba Gooding Jnr, Skeet Ulrich, and Shirley Knight. 138 Minutes. Directed by James L. Brooks from the story by Mark Andrus. Not your average character, Melvin Udall (Jack Nicholson) is a veritable nutcase, so caught within an obsessive compulsive disorder that…
Film Review – Conrad – 27/3/98 This thought provoking, funny and poignant movie is driven by an insightful screenplay which has already won a 1998 Golden Globe Award, and was written by two relative new comers, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, who also play the lead character and his best friend respectively. The movie was…
NZ Music review – Conrad – 30/1/98 Bike is New Zealand guitar pop at its best, producing 40 minutes of shimmering melodic moodiness in their first full length CD ‘Take in the Sun’. Bike is the new vehicle for Andrew Brough’s international class song-writing, previously heard through StraightJacket Fits, one of New Zealand’s most successful…
