Meaty entertainment

Posted on 25th Jul 2012 16:04 | By Anonymous Author

AMPAULwith Paul KendonArts and entertainment blogger The Tauranga Girls’ College and Tauranga Boys’ College’s production of Sweeney Todd opened to a packed house at Baycourt Theatre last night. It was a show of two halves with full credit to the chorus, crew, supporters and sponsors. The stage-set is worthy of any million-dollar...

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Toe tapping original compositions

Posted on 18th Jul 2012 08:40 | By Anonymous Author

AMPAULwith Paul KendonArts and entertainment blogger She Jus Greedy played at the Welcome Bay Sports Club at the weekend and it was a real treat. Hitting the stage a little after the Chiefs game against the Hurricanes on Friday night half time break seemed a little odd at first, but once the band struck up it was actually very entertaining. In...

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Hunger Games hits the target

Posted on 28th Mar 2012 09:58 | By Anonymous Author

Laura’s screening with Laura Weaser The Hunger Games. Directed by Gary Ross. Out now in cinemas. Considered as the new Twilight craze, and smashing box-office records, The Hunger Games sets the standard in teen fiction films by taking aim at more than its target audience. Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) is a natural fighter. Set in the future,...

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Remake one-ups the original series

Posted on 26th Mar 2012 16:55 | By Anonymous Author

Laura’s screening with Laura Weaser 21 Jump Street. Directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller. Out now in cinemas. Bad hair… Motorway explosions, car chases, sliding across your bonnet because you are too cool to walk around your car – sounds like a sequence from any Michael Bay movie. Instead 21 Jump Street pokes fun at everything...

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Nature’s own festival

Posted on 20th Mar 2012 11:58 | By Anonymous Author

Laura’s screening with Laura Weaser Sundaise, set on Dickey’s Flat, is a festival of arts, craft, music, culture and arts. Away from the world, the beautiful festival describes itself as a “collection of like-minded souls gathering for two days of fun”.  Costumes were an essential part of the entertainment and entertainers....

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‘Dawn’ fails to shine a light

Posted on 16th Mar 2012 09:19 | By Anonymous Author

Laura’s screening with Laura Weaser Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part One. Out on DVD now. Let me first address an important bias that may influence this review. 1)    I despise to my core the idea of Twilight, everything associated with it and the way it makes teens to grown women crazy. BUT, as a film reviewer, it is important...

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A dizzying English history lesson

Posted on 13th Mar 2012 10:22 | By Anonymous Author

Laura’s screening with Laura Weaser Anonymous. Directed by Roland Emmerich. Out now on DVD. What if one of the greatest literary figures of our time was nothing more than an illiterate idiot who was merely a mouthpiece of a well-known Earl? That is the peculiar question – factual or otherwise – proposed by Anonymous. Loved and...

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Personal journey an anecdote for greater loss

Posted on 12th Mar 2012 12:34 | By Anonymous Author

Laura’s screening with Laura Weaser Brother Number One. Out now in selected cinemas. Directed by Annie Goldson. Bookended by a brother’s journey, Brother Number One leads the viewer through Cambodian history as told by Whakatane born Rob Hamill’s own experiences. Tracing his brother Kerry’s last steps, ‘Brother’...

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Setting women’s rights back 100 years

Posted on 7th Mar 2012 15:26 | By Anonymous Author

Laura’s screening with Laura Weaser Directed by Douglas McGrath. Out now on DVD and Blu-ray. Since feminist movements in the 1970s-1980s, there has been the age old question of: can a women juggle career and family, or does she have to decide between the two? Thankfully, I Don’t Know How She Does It doesn’t answer any of the...

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The battle that became a complicated war

Posted on 2nd Mar 2012 12:06 | By Anonymous Author

Laura’s screening with Laura Weaser Warrior. Directed By Gavin O’Connor. Out on DVD March 7. Every man is a warrior, driven to fight not only physically against others, but emotionally against society, economy and even family. Visually played out in the caged arena of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA), Warrior is the story of everyday battles...

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