If you’re looking for some music with a bit more lived-in wisdom and durability than your average songs of today, look no further than this list.
Getty inspired: December 2021
Getty inspired: November 2021
Have you read John le Carré’s top 4 books?
Getty inspired: October 2021
Are you shaken or stirred by the new James Bond trailer?
Film review: The Power of the Dog
From The Times: Benedict Cumberbatch and Jane Campion, take a bow. The pair have united to deliver an indecently powerful western that is instantly, on day two of the Venice Film Festival, the movie to beat for the festival’s prestigious Golden Lion award, and indeed the frontrunner at next year’s Oscars.
The things we now have time to watch — and a free DocPlay trial
The country is back in a snap Alert Level 4 lockdown to protect us all from an outbreak of COVID-19 in the community. Although this may have interrupted a weekend of plans, it does present us all with a very important opportunity: catch up on everything we wanted to watch but were too busy to see!
Here’s our list of “things we now have time to watch” on New Zealand streaming platforms.
Getty inspired: August 2021
The best crime fiction for winter 2021
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Dave McNaughton's When I Paint My Masterpiece playlist
Two gorgeous films and a clunker
We’re in awards season. It’s a stretched out awards season, but time has become meaningless lately, what with covid, vaccination roll-outs, pay freezes for three years, and the ordinary hum-drum of too much work and too little time to do it in. Speaking of time, why not spend two or three hours in the cinema, alone or with loved ones, and lose yourself in another world?