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Award-Worthy Oscar Party Tips (Guest Post)
Can you believe it is almost a week until the Oscars? Even though I've been howling about Leonardo DiCaprio for what feels like months, we're just around the corner from seeing if he can seal the deal...
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You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone: Blue Jasmine and Side Effects (Motifs in...
This is the long-awaited final entry into my series about money, and also my entry into Encore's World of TV and Film's blogathon "Motifs in Cinema", where I've obviously chosen the "Economics and...
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Annual Awards Nerdism - Oscar Predictions - Soundies and Design
Forgive me if this year's awards nerdism has been a little slight compared to previous years. Normally I'd attribute this to not being able to watch most of the films before the Oscars, but since I...
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Annual Awards Nerdism - Oscar Predictions - Visuals, 'Bests' and Writing
I won't go into a whole lot of detail, but tonight I'll be predicting the winners for the 'visual' awards (Best Achievement in Cinematography, Best Achievement in Editing and Best Achievement in Visual...
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Annual Awards Nerdism - Oscar Predictions (with poetry) - Acting and Directing
Well lookie here, I'm back to my world famous (okay, maybe not), fantastic prediction poetry that everyone loves. I am not a poet, nor do I have any intentions of becoming one, but normal predictions...
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Annual Awards Nerdism: Ranking the Best Picture Nominees
I think I've done pretty well this Oscar season, seeing all but one Best Picture nominee - Nebraska - before Oscar time. And I must say, the quality has been high. Not 2010-2011 Oscar season level...
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Throwback Thursday: An Education
I really shouldn't start a feature, because as seen in the past, I've been terrible at keeping them up, but I've had this one milling over in my head quite a bit over the past few months. Anyway, the...
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Being a Feminist is Hard, and Other Thoughts from a Filmic Female Dreamer
Prepare for a post full of paradoxes. About time I gave meaning to the shitty, nonsensical title I gave this blog when I was 14 and impaired by my Inception obsession.I swore I would never write a big...
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Did Darren Aronofsky Keep Our Trust with Noah? (+ podcasting on The Matineecast)
The Christopher Nolan that made Following and Memento is not really the same Christopher Nolan that made the Dark Knight trilogy and Inception. He's got more money, more trust, more opportunities. Yet,...
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10 Years of Mean Girls
No, I didn't see Mean Girls 10 years ago when it first came out. I do remember it popping up in all of the little pre-tween magazines that I used to hoard, but I never saw it until it popped up on TV...
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Late-Ish 2013 Retrospective: Top 15 Female Performances
If you've been following ze blog for a few years, you know that I don't deal well with watching movies from the year before until we're halfway through the next year. Hence my top lists of 2011...
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Late-Ish 2013 Retrospective: Top 15 Male Performances
More 2013 retrospective goodness just to remind you that 2013 happened and 2013 was great! Don't really need to waste a whole lot of time explaining this, so here are my favourite male performances...
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Late-ish 2013 Retrospective: Top 10 Directors
Again, I don't have a huge disclaimer to put here. I know it's May, I know it's late, but hey, it is never too late to honour some pretty awesome directors, is it?Honourable Mentions: Steven Soderbergh...
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Late-ish 2013 Retrospective: Top 20 Best Films
So, here it is. 2013 was a damn good year for films if I do say so myself. It was hard reducing this list down to just 20, because any one of my honourable mentions would have had a welcome place in my...
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Can We Take a Moment to Remember How Blue Valentine is Still Devastating?
Few spoilers in this post, but I imagine most of you should have seen it back in 2011. If you haven't, grab the tissues and come back later.Did you know that the most fun thing you can do on a Sunday...
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NZFF Mini-Reviews: Frank, Locke, Maps to the Stars, Boyhood
Good things about going to university: having a cinema about five minutes away instead of 45 minutes away. Bad things about university: everything had to be due on the week when the New Zealand...
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19th Birthday Post - My Favourite Films About Growing Up That I Watched While...
This is a really dark birthday candle picture but I think it's pretty and there's no 19th birthday photos anywayHi, I know, two posts in one week...damn the world must be headed for an apocalypse or...
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Five Years Ago Today I Started This Blog (and now a soppy post ensues)
So here we are, at the five year anniversary of this little corner of the web. It is weird to think of this time five years ago where I would have been furiously tapping away at the big keys of my...
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Whiplash, or: How a Movie About Drumming is Possibly the Scariest Movie of 2014
There's a scene in Whiplash where Andrew (Miles Teller, gradually building up a pretty great filmography with his best work so far) tells his would-be girlfriend Nicole (Melissa Benoist) that he can't...
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I Saw Interstellar, I am a Nolan Fan, It Is Not Perfect (and that's okay)
Of course, if you've been around these parts for a little while, you'll know that I've been a pretty huge Christopher Nolan fan since 2010. It has reached some pretty fanatical heights (why yes I do...
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Predestination Definitely Isn't the Film You Think It Is
Chances are you haven't seen - or maybe even heard of - Predestination. I'm not entirely sure when its planned release date is for wider markets, nor am I sure why it was released in New Zealand in...
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a note on the past few years of not being here
Woo...where to even begin with this.Hello hello, it is me - occasional tweeter,semi-aesthetic film Instagrammer, and self-professed 'former film blogging child prodigy'.I've spent my Sunday afternoon...
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my favourite job was at a dvd store
I worked in two DVD stores while I was in high school and university. I'm 22, so arguably on the fringe of not being able to say 'I grew up going to the DVD store', but I'm somehow a veteran of a...
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let's talk about my 15 favourite films of 2018 (so far)
2018 was something of a film renaissance for me. This could come down to a few things: a) I restarted my Letterboxd account after three years forgetting about the site, which helped keep me accountable...
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Everyone Knows Someone From Lord of the Rings, And Other New Zealand Fun Facts
Tomorrow is Waitangi Day - which, as you likely don't know, is a national public holiday in New Zealand to commemorate the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi (if you want to know more, attend any kind...
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