The last time Sebadoh released an album the reaction was far from flattering. Critics who’d previously championed the band’s lo-fi aesthetic and the intensely personal songwriting of Lou Barlow and Jason Lowenstein chided the band for the perceived bloated production aesthetic of 1999’s
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Art a kind of alchemy
Michelle Menzies, curator of the New Zealand Festival exhibition Cinema & Painting at Wellington’s Adam Art Gallery, wants to make one thing clear – it isn’t some kind of self-referential show. “This exhibition is not about paintings about films, or movies which represent paintings
Remembering skateboarding’s top guns
A decade after chronicling the birth of skateboarding in Dogtown and Z-Boys , documentarian Stacy Peralta is back to look at one of the greatest periods of skateboarding popularity – the 1980s – in Bones Brigade: An Autobiography . James Croot quizzed him about the making of the film and where he sees skateboarding today
The unusual career of Nick Frost
What’s a tubby English actor doing in a salsa romcom Nick Frost talks about burgeoning fame, avoiding being typecast and why you don’t need to be smokin’ hot to get the girl.
Review: Hannah Arendt
HANNAH ARENDT (M) 113 mins “Israel seizes Nazi chief “, screams The New York Times of May 24, 1960.
Sister see, sister do: Second Olsen engaged
Elizabeth Olsen is engaged, just two weeks after her older sister, Mary-Kate. Us
Review: Generation Iron
REVIEW: Without it, The Incredible Hulk, The Terminator and Conan could have had very different visages. 1977 docudrama Pumping Iron made both Lou Ferrigno and Arnold Schwarzenegger household names, propelling them for the niche world of bodybuilding into mainstream Hollywood
Review: The Brats
Meeting your prospective father-in-law is always a nerve-wracking experience, but it results in far-reaching consequences for Thomas Brenner (Max Boublil). The wedding singer’s charms might have swayed his daughter and humanitarian wife (Sandrine Kiberlain), but not this ennui-shrouded early retiree Gilbert (Alain Chabat).
Booker prize novel ‘comes home’
The Luminaries has finally come home.
Jackson pays tribute to young cancer victim
Sir Peter Jackson has paid tribute to a young Wellington writer who lost her battle with cancer last Friday.