Director Bong Joon Ho made Parasite in 2019. It was a masterful expression of filmmaking focusing on themes of inequality, exploitation, and the lengths people will go to get themselves a better life.

My latest opshop review takes you to beautiful Mangawhai Heads north of Auckland where I check out their three main charity stores: St John’s in Moir Street, Mangawhai Opportunity Factory in Wood ...

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes, or so the saying goes by Mark Twain. We find ourselves in an interesting time full of economic uncertainty, rising inequality, and atrocities ...

Griff is the best, more on that later. Death of a Unicorn (Dir Alex Scharfman – Resurrection, Blow the Man Down) is a film about lawyer Elliot Kitner (Paul Rudd – Ant-Man, Clueless, This is 40) and ...

A recurring trope in movies is that autism is like a superpower. Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man was an early example of this. Ben Affleck was a better killer for it in The Accountant. 2018’s The Predator ...

Disclaimer – As a single person, I have never wanted the bad guy to succeed as much as I did in this movie. The year is 1996, a horror film enters the zeitgeist. The film is one of the first ...

It was about $450 a night when I booked in January 2025, and you could have a number of people there for the price and i imagine you could share it between two small families or two couples for a ...

Movies have sweet spots too, the bliss point for action movies revolve around kinetic action, characters you care about, unique camera movement, and a consistent and coherent story. Michael Bay, the ...

Thousands of fashionistas attended iD Dunedin Fashion Week’s two premier runway shows across three nights – the 13th annual iD International Emerging Designer Awards, which featured 29 emerging ...

Bargain Beauty Buy: The new Designer Brands Palettes out for Christmas are priced from just $10 each. The larger palette at the bottom is a Pro Contour Kit ($22.99) with powders in six shades. The top ...

The MAC cosmetics colour collection for Chinese New Year in 2017, MAC Year of the Rooster, has distinctive red and black flocked velvet packets, neutral eyes, black liners, and lips in peachy and red ...

The MC for the launch night was Carly Flynn, who talked about her first pair of shoes bought from an original Kumfs store, and how when she was heavily pregnant they were quite simply bliss on her ...