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Episode 69 of the Filmotomy Podcast has Robin Write in the presenter’s chair, with a unique panel of two. Those sprightly individuals are Joel Meléndez…

Bette Davis is a memorable name in the history of both the world and the American cinema in her career. Starting from her youth years and…

David Lean is probably most famous for his legendary epics like Lawrence of Arabia, which is why I was so intrigued to watch his 1945…

When the opening credits begin in Raging Bull and we see a distant, hooded figure in the smoke-filled ring in warm-up sparring mode – presented in cosmic slow motion and set to the celestial “Intermezzo” from Cavalleria rusticana and the pop of flashbulbs – we sense that we are entering untrod territory.

By the time I was born in 1990, Steven Spielberg, through triumphs like Jaws, Close Encounters, and E.T., had already cemented himself as one of…

They fracture time and space, reference our libraries of mythology and ethics, and take us far outside – or inside – of our hopes, our dreams and nightmares.

It was a “wet ungenial summer” in Geneva when the 18-year-old daughter of a political philosopher and a feminist author suggested to her lover and…

We’re getting closer to Halloween, and it’s a perfect time to indulge in a wealth of horror films that put you in a suitably spooky…

The Fifties, that squeaky-clean decade of that saw the birth of the suburbs, strict morality and, the McCarthy era, also had the misfortune to precede…

The New Zealand International Film Festival has a history of providing cinephiles not only with brilliant new films but also bringing classics back to the…

Sometimes the trigger is poverty, other times ethnic alienation. Even boredom can play a factor is causing the coagulation of a gang. If a group…

Let’s start with the brash statement that cinema, as we know it exists because of this genre. It’s the genre that draws crowds (or used…

I have a vivid memory as a child browsing the collection of Star Wars figures in a store, and the new set on display. Part…