John Henderson reviews the French true story ‘I’m Glad My Mother is Alive’ screening at the New Zealand international Film Festival.
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John Henderson reviews the documentary ‘Space Tourists‘ screening at the New Zealand International Film Festival.
John Henderson takes a look at Herb & Dorothy screening at the Academy Cinema. Here’s the blurb:
He was a postal clerk. She was a librarian. With modest means, this couple managed to build one of the most important modern art collections in history. Meet Herbert and Dorothy Vogel, whose shared passion and commitment defied stereotypes and redefined what it means to be an art collector.
John Henderson reviews a documentary chronicling Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour’s preparations for the 2008 fall-fashion issue.
John Henderson reviews a film about a mum who starts an unusual business — a biohazard removal/crime scene clean-up service — with her unreliable sister. Directed by Christine Jeffs. With Amy Adams, Emily Blunt, Alan Arkin.
Written by Tom Scott and Directed by Paul Middleditch. With Joel Edgerton, Rhona Mitra, Danielle Cormack. A painful tale about marriage, bad sex and requited love.
A sleazy Hollywood agent tricks one of his clients, a faded action star, into playing King Lear in an amateur charity production in England. Directed by Andy Cadiff. With Burt Reynolds, Alexandra Weaver, Elesia Ennis. John Henderson gives us his thoughts.
A thirty-year-old young man, left his village ten years before in order to start a new life in the big city, but now that his father, a travelling grocer, is in hospital after a stroke, he more or less reluctantly accepts to come back to replace him in his daily rounds. His father is sick, so he must assume the lifestyle he thought he had shed—driving the family grocery cart from hamlet to hamlet, delivering supplies to the few remaining inhabitants. John Henderson gives us his thoughts.
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A period comedy about an illegal radio station in the North Sea in the 60′s. Directed by Richard Curtis. With Bill Nighy, Gemma Arterton, Philip Seymour Hoffman. Known as the pirate station Radio Rock its broadcasts annoy the prim government of the day because the official BBC stations were not playing rock and roll music all day long and Radio Rock defied government policy.
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Set in 1930s southern India against the backdrop of a growing nationalist movement, Before the Rains is the English language debut of acclaimed Indian director Santosh Sivan (The Terrorist, Asoka). An idealistic young Indian man (Rahul Bose) finds himself torn between his ambitions for the future and his loyalty to the past when people in his village learn of an affair between his British boss (Linus Roache) and a village woman (Nandita Das).
