28 Aug 2016

Revered - and occasionally feared - reviewer Peter Calder calls it a day

From Standing Room Only, 12:46 pm on 28 August 2016
Peter Calder

Peter Calder Photo: supplied

Auckland Cinema managers and restaurant owners can sleep a little easier after this week. Peter Calder, the highly respected - but often ruthless - movie and food critic for the New Zealand Herald is about to hang up his pen - his poison pen, some might say. But is he as bad as he's painted, or is he, as Monty Python would put it, "vicious but fair"?

Simon Morris was keen to find out...