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 ...

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 ...

Imagine waking to birdsong, surrounded by bush and no-one else in sight, let alone traffic noise? This was my reality last month, when I took the family to stay at Matakana Retreat, a luxury off-grid ...

This latest ON MY DESK Spring Beauty column features the latest beauty, makeup and skincare products to cross my desk in November 2015… ...

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 ...

Sustainable would be a word to aptly describe Gisborne-based label neverblack’s debut collection Queen of the Night at fashion week this year. Not in the sense of anything to do with the environment ...

Megan road tests Clarins Nude Inspiration collection and finds it’s not deeply pigmented but that’s the point; it’s a delicate sheer range inspired by "a very natural girl fresh-faced and carefree, ...

These are bold statements, but ones that make perfect sense when you see Turet Knuefermann of tkstore’s garments. At New Zealand Fashion Week, her A/W 2011 collection was applauded for its comfortable ...

Stolen Girlfriends Club know how to throw a fashion show that’s an event; a packed full house in a warehouse, a cool crowd, hot models, and a finale with a MINI Paceman driving onto the catwalk… ...