Film Guide

It’s Twilight in ‘the Tron’ as the Armageddon Expo rolls into Hamilton for the first time this April with a host of talent including stars of the hit franchise, Twilight.

Armageddon Expo 2012 begins its Australasian tour at Claudelands Event Centre on Saturday April 14th and Sunday April 15th, playing host to a mesmerizing array of gamers and fans of all ages before heading to TSB Arena in Wellington on Saturday April 21st and Sunday April 22nd.

Event Director Bill Geradts says he’s thrilled to be bringing the expo to the city. “To say we’ve been looking forward to being hosted by our Hamilton fans is an understatement; we’ve waited a long time to bring Armageddon to Hamilton, and we’ve got some cult icons from the small and big screens coming to Claudelands to be part of it,” said Geradts.  Read the rest of this entry »

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New Zealand audiences have embraced Steven Spielberg’s latest family adventure film The Adventures of Tintin, which has just crossed the $5 million mark at the local box office making it the biggest film of the school holidays.

The film has also bucked a recent trend of decreasing public interest in 3D films with an impressive 70% of its audience choosing to see it in its 3D format rather than the traditional 2D.

Produced by Sir Peter Jackson, Tintin uses motion capture technology to record the performances of stars Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis and Daniel Craig, which was then brought to life by Wellington’s Weta Digital who overlayed animation onto the original performances.

In addition to winning over the general public, the film has been well received by critics and has garnered significant awards season attention winning a Golden Globe and the Producers Guild of America award for Best Animated Feature, and receiving a BAFTA and Academy Awards nomination.  Read the rest of this entry »

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I was intrigued with the concept of Erasing David – could someone living in the world’s third most surveilled country, just disappear and survive for a month without being found? It’s a concept that film maker (and star of the documentary) David Bond investigates in Erasing David. He starts off by employing private investigators Cerberus Investigations Limited to attempt to locate him, giving them a month to do so, then attempts to drop off the grid. Fortunately the documentary is a little more than just this, as the first thing Cerberus do is grab David’s garbage and discover his initial travel documents.

Spliced in with his life on the run from Cerberus, are a few different aspects of living in our modern, invasive society. David decided to enact the privacy act, requiring businesses to send him all the information he has on them. The amount of information he receives back from some companies is staggering to say the least.

David also interviews a couple of people who have been arrested for crimes they didn’t commit but have been linked to through identity theft, and proves the point that mud certainly does stick.

But the main focus, and the reason most people will be watching Erasing David is to see how long a clued up guy can evade two private investigators. Luckily Cerberus don’t have access to Britain’s massive array of CCTV cameras or facial recognition scanning, if they did, David would have been toast.  Read the rest of this entry »

“Project X” follows three seemingly anonymous high school seniors as they attempt to finally make a name for themselves. Their idea is innocent enough: let’s throw a party that no one will forget… but nothing could prepare them for this party. Word spreads quickly as dreams are ruined, records are blemished and legends are born.

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On his way to the store to buy wood glue, Jeff looks for signs from the universe to determine his path. However, a series of comedic and unexpected events leads him to cross paths with his family in the strangest of locations and circumstances. Jeff just may find the meaning of his life… and if he’s lucky, pick up the wood glue as well.

Grace (Eva Mendes) is a single mom. She is too busy juggling work, bills, and the very married Dr. Hartford (Matthew Modine), to give her daughter, Ansiedad (Cierra Ramirez) the attention she desperately needs. When Ansiedad’s English teacher, Ms. Armstrong (Patricia Arquette), introduces her students to classic coming-of-age stories, Ansiedad is inspired to skip adolescence and jump-start her life without mom. While Grace becomes preoccupied with the increasing affections of her co-worker (Eugenio Derbez), Ansiedad enlists the help of her loyal friend, Tavita (Raini Rodriguez), to plot her shortcut to “adulthood”. But as her misguided plan unravels, Ansiedad and Grace must learn that sometimes growing-up means acting your age.