In My View

Families Like Ours is not content to be a television drama. it insists on being a mirror. Thomas ...

Plug in. Turn it up. Rialto Channel is turning the volume to dangerous. Icons, excess, and the untold ...

Darling, if you can’t name at least three films that never made money, confused the critics, and were ...

Darling, Rialto Channel has gone and done something deliciously reckless. They are giving us Werner Herzog in full ...

Xavier Dolan doesn’t play the game. he rewrote it, mid-sentence. At 25, he’d already made five features, won ...

The 80s were theatre. Billionaires playing poker with television licences. Allan Bond bought Channel Nine, Kerry Packer sold ...

Ten years ago, there were barely two African films on screen in Aotearoa. Today, there’s an entire festival. ...

Father’s Day is a trick of the calendar.   One Sunday a year where florists and cafés do ...

There’s a chill in the air when Mads Brügger speaks. It’s not menace, more like the polite tone ...

He never acted. He inhabited. Those cheekbones were sharper than dialogue. That voice — half prayer, half sneer ...