Lord of the Rings and Cowboy Bebop shoots back on in New Zealand
After facing delays under the pandemic conditions, Amazon’s gargantuan Lord of the Rings series is back on track in New Zealand, with filming just resuming ...
Tag: New Zealand
Movies
Avatar 2 production has wrapped, with Avatar 3 nearly there
By way of a video conference during the 2020 Austrian World Summit, Hollywood legend James Cameron confirmed that principal photography on Avatar 2 has wrapped, ...
The Avatar films are the latest productions to be halted by COVID-19 concerns
As the world buckles down and hopefully turns all attention towards mitigating the damage of the coronavirus, the azure exploits of James Cameron’s ...
Trailers
First Mega Time Squad trailer looks exactly as dumb as it should
Dark Sky Films just dropped the first trailer for Mega Time Squad, a New Zealand action/comedy that ticks all the right boxes. Maybe ...
Reviews
Review: Hunt for the Wilderpeople
[This film is playing as part of the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival, running from April 13-24 in New York City. For ...
Review: The Dead Lands
Films about indigenous groups have a strange and sordid history in film. Their appearances are far and few in-between and those that exist ...
Flix for Short: Lost & Found
This short documentary by Joey Bania profiles an eccentric New Zealand tinkerer and inventor named Blair Somerville. Somerville makes all kinds of things, ...
Features
Tribeca Interview: Kate Elliott (Fresh Meat)
Fresh Meat is a manic horror-comedy from New Zealand about a group of screw-up criminals that take a suburban family hostage. The family ...
Features
Tribeca Interview: Danny Mulheron (Fresh Meat)
Director Danny Mulheron has a really huge personality, and talking to him last week I could sense a lot of that in the ...