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The school holidays have descended. Here is your guide to the new releases in cinemas and great special events for children and families. We’ve divided it into films for kids, and films for older kids/teens. We got Annie, Chaplin, birds, dogs, robots, dragons, fairies, bears and mice…   FOR KIDS… ERNEST & CELESTINE NOW PLAYING […]

The deadline for entries into the ninth annual Show Me Shorts Film Festival is here. Anyone wanting their short film or music video considered for this year’s festival must submit before 1 July, 2014. The Show Me Shorts Best Film Award winner will qualify for entry to the Oscars®! Short film entries of all genres […]

With the unveiling of the NZ International Film Festival’s programme for 2014 comes a deep breath, a good stretch and the search for a functioning ballpoint pen to make the first of many “must-see” lists. For some of us, Ant Timpson’s selections under the Incredibly Strange banner frequently rank among the best filmgoing experiences of […]

As one would expect, there’s plenty to sink your teeth into in this year’s NZ International Film Festival programme. After we’ve had the chance to give the programme due consideration, we’ll be making some recommendations and helping you navigate the cinematic marvels on offer. For starters, though, here are ten films we’ve been looking forward […]

Script to Screen and the NZ Writers’ Guild are proud to present a conversation with Academy-award winning screenwriter David Seidler (The King’s Speech). Join chair Fiona Samuel to hear about David’s writing life, the intriguing story around making The Kings Speech, and his approach to the craft of screenwriting. David Seidler has a vast oeuvre writing for stage, television, and feature film. In 2011, he […]

Bringing Māori history and culture alive to screens is The Dead Lands [update: this is currently undated – stay tuned for when Dead Lands will arrive in cinemas], a period-set action-adventure based on the traditional fighting art of Mau rākau. After his tribe is slaughtered through an act of treachery, the chieftan’s teenage son Hongi (James Rolleston, Boy) […]

Seven Māori and Pasifika short films have been selected for the Ngā Whanaunga shorts programme for 2014. This is the third year the Wairoa Film Festival have programmed the Ngā Whanaunga shorts for NZIFF and we are pleased to host the nationwide screenings of this terrific collection as part of the 2014 programme. The Ngā […]

The New Zealand International Film Festival (NZIFF) today announced that New Zealand film The Dark Horse will have its world premiere at the opening night of the Festival in 2014. The Dark Horse will open NZIFF in Auckland on 17 July at the Civic Theatre and Wellington on 25 July at the Embassy Theatre. The […]

“We made this film for fans of Boy and Flight of the Conchords – we think Kiwis appreciate our style of comedy more than anyone and it’s our job to please them.” – Taika Waititi Join Script to Screen this month for a very special Writers’ Room with multiple Emmy-nominee Jemaine Clement (Flight of the Conchords) and […]

One of last year’s best indie films resurfaces on home video this month, alongside expected genre offerings doing their best to ramp up the thrills and chills, another aging Hollywood star trying to reinvent himself as an action dude, primo documentary fodder, and some head-scratching reissues. Devil’s Due In a nutshell: A couple documenting their pregnancy […]

Six short films have been selected by Andrew Adamson (Mr Pip, The Chronicles of Narnia) as finalists for the New Zealand International Film Festival’s New Zealand’s Best Short Film Competition in 2014. The films will compete for four cash prizes, with winners to be announced at the closing night event of the Auckland leg of NZIFF. Guest […]

The 12th annual Rialto Channel 48HOURS national filmmaking competition winners have been announced at the 2014 Grand National Final. 48HOURS kicked off on April 4 when over 700 teams from around New Zealand wrote, shot, edited and delivered their short films in just 48 hours. This year there were 14 incredibly strong finalists up for Best […]

The New Zealand International Film Festival (NZIFF) has added an exciting batch of “pop culture” films to the 2014 programme. The seven films are: The Congress Will play in Auckland and Wellington Crossing between animation and live-action, this science fiction drama stars Robin Wright as Robin Wright, the eye-catching co-lead of 1987’s The Princess Bride who is […]

Loading Docs is a launchpad for New Zealand documentary shorts, comprised of 10 three-minute docos from talented local filmmakers. And here’s the best part: you can watch any of them right now for free by visiting the Loading Docs website. The film line-up includes: Catkiller by Aidee Walker and Alexander Gandar Dans by Joel Kefali and Amber Easby […]

Jane Campion’s jury at Cannes (also consisting of directors Sofia Coppola and Nicolas Winding Refn, as well as actors Willem Dafoe and Gael Garcia Bernal) have awarded three-and-a-quarter hour Turkish drama Winter Sleep with the Palme d’Or at Cannes. Director Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Once Upon a Time in Anatolia) was presented the best film award by […]

Here at Flicks.co.nz we’re proud as punch to have been involved with the NZ Motion Picture Industry Council awards again this year. At an enjoyable awards dinner at Wellington’s Embassy Theatre, a number of professional awards were presented to proud recipients from throughout the industry, including Moodabe Lifetime Achievement Award winner Christine Massey. As Flicks […]

The New Zealand International Film Festival (NZIFF) today announced the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra live cinema event to be held in Auckland as part of the 2014 programme. Prix de beauté (a.ka. Miss Europe) is a 1930 jazz-age classic starring Louise Brooks. The film will be accompanied live by the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra with Marc Taddei […]