Film Review

The Office ended on such a perfect note in 2003 that this new revisiting of the David Brent character runs the real risk of tarnishing the show’s reputation, says reviewer Jeremy Quinn.

Richie McCaw shares a little of his mana with us in this extraordinary film, says Christine Powley.

Opening on the six-month anniversary of the November 2015 Paris attacks, and little more than a year since the Charlie Hebdo shootings, this terrorist-themed thriller has resonance that could not have been planned to such a degree when it was filmed in late 2014.

Anyone suffering from superhero fatigue is unlikely to be released from their stupor by this new instalment in the never-ending Marvel Cinematic Universe, although compared to a certain other similarly themed comic book blockbuster of recent months, Captain America: Civil War is at least a good deal of fun, even if it does sometimes feel like a placeholder for a bigger story.

The internet can be a dangerous thing. I knew of Florence Foster Jenkins, but I did not know about her until I typed her name into a search engine.

Clearly influenced by Waltz with Bashir, the 2008 animated documentary that scrutinised the 1982 Lebanon War, 25 April (Rialto) is a noble attempt to apply a comparable graphic novel-inspired treatment to the New Zealand involvement in the Gallipoli campaign.

After December's end-of-year Hollywood awards season blitz, January can often feel like a bit of a dumping ground for those releases not deemed worthy of award consideration, or indeed, competitive enough in the marketplace for a big holiday blockbuster opening.