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CULTURE: The Ferris Bueller House
I fell in love with this building the first time I saw it in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986, John Hughes). It’s the ice cold home of Ferris’s uptight pal, Cameron, who we meet wallowing in his death...
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FASHION: The death of Converse?
There’s an olde worlde saying that goes: “If the shoe is not broken, why on God’s ever loving earth would you fix it?” Many a brand has foolishly replied, “Coz we can, see!” Now cinema’s favourite shoe...
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TV: Mulder and Scully reunited and it feels so good
THEY’RE BAAAAAAAACK: Search parties! Dead bodies being dragged about! Multi needle thingies being stuck in unsuspecting necks… or something! OMERGERD! Mulder and Scully are reunited and it feels so...
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EVENTS: The NZIFF so far
We’re a couple of days in to 2015’s New Zealand International Film Festival. I’ve only made it to two screenings so far, but they’ve both been incredible. Saturday was Inherent Vice, Paul Thomas...
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FASHION: Luke Skywalker robes up
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, a young Jedi donned the black robes of his dispossessed order, battled the darkness and saved the Galaxy. Now, older and wiser, he has taken up the tan garb...
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REVIEW: A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night
Fangs for the memories (★★★★ Directed by Ana Lily Amirpour) What do you get if you cross Persian sexual politics with 80s style, the French New Wave and classic vampire films? An absolute masterpiece...
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CULTURE: Hitch’s little Vanity project
If there’s one director who cornered the market in iconic images, it’s old Uncle Alfred. Hitchcock had an eye, my friends, which is why Vamity Fair have used some of his most iconic shots as...
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TRAILERS: John Boyega lights us up in new Star Wars: The Force Awakens teaser
Get ready to feel like a a 7-year-old kid again: There has been an awakening, alright – in my pre-teen heart! John Boyega sparking up that lightsaber is everything I want from this film times a...
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FASHION: First Assassin’s Creed pic released
The Assassin’s out of the bag as Yahoo release exclusive pics of Michael Fassbender in costume for the forthcoming Assassin’s Creed film, based on the Unisoft game of the same name. I’m not much of a...
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FASHION: A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night
One of the best things about Ana Lily Amirpour’s stylish noir Vampire film is, well, the style. With the help of good old Polyvore, I’ve had a go at being Anna Wintour for a day (sans the Terry...
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Top Gun 2 trailer: I feel the need, the need for this film right now!
I’ll just leave this her, because holy Goddamn, how good does this look?! When the first film came out, five trillion years ago, I was so hooked on it, I thought I would sign up for the Navy and...
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Why Brandon Routh’s Superman returning is great news
Can someone pass my smelling salts? The two best Supermen will be supermanning together this year, and I may fai… Brandon Routh, who played the Big Blue Boy Scout in Bryan Singer’s 2006 film, Superman...
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The five best movie priests
So the UK show Fleabag (the one that everyone keeps going on about but that I managed to only watch one episode of before bugging out, possibly never to return) has got everyone talking about just one...
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Taika Waititi nails Thor 4, Jojo Rabbit critics
Hands up who’s excited for Taika Waititi’s Thor: Love and Thunder… Please note: both my hand and one leg up. I wrote about it for Stuff last week. Y’all can have a read of it on the site, but suffice...
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NZIFF: Satan, Maiden, and Andrew Garfield
So, I’m a bit late posting this bad boy, I’ve already bought all my tickets and I’m three films in. The offerings this year are great. A lot of films that feel like they might have a bit of mainstream...
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Rookie mistake: I binge watched Fleabag
So, I watched FLEABAG and I am still a bit haunted by it. I avoided it initially because the thought I might recognise myself in that character made me anxious… like, I don’t need to watch a show...
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Introducing Off Script: Folks, I done made a podcast!
I’ve really gone and done it this time… I’ve made a podcast. What’s that you say? Surely the world gets enough of my over sharing from the sheer volume of op eds I write? Maybe, you cheeky get. But...
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Rosie Betzler’s red lips were a defiant ‘up yours’
Kiwi director and star Taika Waititi’s anti-racism satire JOJO RABBIT is likely in the running for a Best Picture nomination at this year’s Oscars. At the very least a couple of its stars should also...
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OFF SCRIPT, episode 9 is live!
In which lifelong fangirls Kylie Klein-Nixon and Emily Brookes discuss the films, music and books that set them on the path to becoming the trivia-loving, Vulture-reading, pop culture-podding,...
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Episode 10 or, “When IS it OK to blow up a head?”, is live!
In which former teenage social outcasts Kylie Klein-Nixon and Emily Brookes debut their new, snappier, single-topic (with lots of tangents) podding style with a discussion of Netflix’s new dramedy...
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