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For the young ones
Deride them as "video game" movies, but the intended result is always the same: the dismissal of what young people watch because young people watch it.
A critic, but not made of stone
Adam Goodall reviews the Dunedin heats from the 48 Hour film festival.
Move over Sundance
Adam Goodall reports from the highlight in Dunedin's filmic calendar, the 48HOURS Film Festival.
The Raid 2: Now we're just showing off
Adam Goodall reviews the latest release from Welsh director Gareth Evans.
Awards talk: Part two
Part two of Adam Goodall and Judah Finnigan's coverage of the 2014 Oscars.
Adam and Judah talk about the Oscars because of social expectation
Film bloggers Adam Goodall and Judah Finnigan begin their rundown of the 2014 Oscars.
It's never been new and it never gets old
Adam Goodall on the Coen Brothers’ latest movie, Inside Llewyn Davis.
So I am watching 12 Years a Slave
Adam Goodall on Steve McQueen's historical drama 12 Years a Slave.
12 Years a Slave
This is a confrontational film about the way a society dehumanises those it doesn’t value, writes Adam Goodall.
Bringing in a replacement
I'm still not sure about the NZ International Film Festival’s ‘Autumn Events’...
A Capote poster
In 2006, I always told people I wanted to be like Philip Seymour Hoffman, a man I’d barely seen act.
Let's talk about Sundance
With few distributors willing to take a punt, Sundance becomes a sad attempt at predicting what we might get
Thoughts about Short Term 12
Short Term 12 could have treated a home for at-risk youth as a place of sadness and fear. Instead, it’s full of light.
You probably missed these films in 2013. Silly.
I’m just saying you might have missed a few films.Don't worry, you've got all of 2014 to catch up
Trickle-down violence
The difference is that society was, and still is, fine with his methods.
The Forest for the Ents
The Hobbit suffers from a reckless obsession with scope at the expense of depth, writes Adam Goodall.
The restoration of Geoff Murphy
His fingerprints are all over most major landmarks of our cinema resurgence in the 1980s.
On living without a multiplex
Our film blogger Adam Goodall never thought he'd say this, but he's missing the multiplex.
No country for women
Written for the screen by Cormac McCarthy, The Counselor is about evil - and no-one gets off easy.
'Content rubber-neckers'
Our film bloggers tackle classification, downloading, and parental controls.
Fear of a Blockbuster planet
If the biggest name in home entertainment can't survive, the story went, what about the little guys?
Of Construction Toys & Comic Book Heroes
...both films are carriages on a corporation's money train.
What is The State of Things?
What we’re watching has become as important as what we watch.