‘Star Trek Beyond’ – Review

After they receive a cryptic distress call from within a distant nebula, the Enterprise and its crew set out to investigate. But what awaits them is alien despot Krall (Idris Elba) and his limitless army, who after destroying their ship leaves them stranded on a mysterious alien world. Alone and outnumbered, James Kirk (Chris Pine) […]

‘Moss & Freud’ – A Beautifully Crafted Portrait of Art, Identity and Connection – Review

New TV spots for ‘Ben-Hur’ promise epic hero’s journey

Rising star Jack Huston is stepping into the sandals of Charlton Heston in this grand re-imagining of Ben-Hur, which has now released three new TV spots. The new spots concentrate on the relationship between Huston’s Judah and his adopted brother Messala (Toby Kebbell), and the strife that would turn them into enemies. While Huston appears to […]

‘LOMU’ Set to Shake NZIFF as a Towering Tribute to All Black great Jonah Lomu

Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone sparkle and shine in ‘La La Land’

Academy Award nominee Damien Chazelle (Whiplash) brings an ethereal tale of love and loss set against the backdrop of Hollywood show business in the dream-like first trailer for La La Land. Here’s the official synopsis: Mia (Emma Stone), an ambitious actress is looking to make it in Hollywood and begins to fall for Sebastian (Ryan […]

Christopher Nolan delivers a colossal epic with ‘The Odyssey’

The fight for true love has never been stronger in first trailer for ‘Loving’

Rising cinema auteur Jeff Nichols has never failed to wow audiences with each new project, but his latest film, Loving, will really tug at their heartstrings. The films tells the true story of Richard (Joel Edgerton) and Mildred Loving (Ruth Negga), an interracial couple who married in 1958 in defiance of the state of Virginia’s […]

Christopher Nolan delivers a colossal epic with ‘The Odyssey’

MIles Teller doesn’t know how to give up in ‘Bleed For This’

Miles Teller channels the will of a true life fighter in Ben Younger’s gritty boxing drama Bleed For This, which follows the story of Vinne ‘The Pazmanian Devil’ Pazienza, a world championship middleweight boxer who suffered a shattering neck injury which left him wheelchair bound and in a halo neck brace. Refusing to give up, […]

Christopher Nolan delivers a colossal epic with ‘The Odyssey’

Tom Hanks portrays the man behind the hero in ‘Sully’

Tom Hanks and Clint Eastwood, two of Hollywood’s biggest legends, are teaming up to tell the extraordinary story of American Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger in Sully. On January 15, 2009 US Airways Flight 1549 lost both of its engines, and Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger was forced to make a high-risk emergency landing that saved the lives […]

Christopher Nolan delivers a colossal epic with ‘The Odyssey’

‘The Legend of Tarzan’ – Review

After years of absence from the jungle, John Clayton, Lord of Greystoke (Alexander Skarsgard), the man once known as the hero Tarzan, returns to Africa on a diplomatic mission for the Crown. Joining forces with American soldier and explorer George Washington Williams (Samuel L. Jackson), Clayton uncovers the harsh realities of the Congo under the […]

‘Moss & Freud’ – A Beautifully Crafted Portrait of Art, Identity and Connection – Review

‘The BFG’ – Review

When young orphan Sophie (Ruby Barnhill), befriends a giant named the BFG (Mark Rylance), she is whisked off to a far away land of unlimited dreams and fearsome giants, led by The Fleshlumpeater (Jemaine Clement). Seeing the evil that the giants are capable of, Sophie and the BFG create a plan to defeat them once and […]

‘Moss & Freud’ – A Beautifully Crafted Portrait of Art, Identity and Connection – Review