Now, I’m risk­ing the ire of the extremely help­ful and gen­er­ous New Zea­l­and Inter­na­tion­al Film Fest­iv­al team here, but I’m going to recom­mend an approach to fest­iv­al-going that will prob­ably reward you more than it will them. Here goes: don’t book for any­thing. Don’t plan your life around any par­tic­u­lar screen­ing of any par­tic­u­lar film. […]

I can ima­gine some people not enjoy­ing The World’s End. People who don’t care about – or even notice – cine­mat­ic crafts­man­ship, people who think that being self-ref­er­­en­­tial means being self-indul­­gent, audi­ences who prefer their action sequences to be cos­mic in scale and meas­ured in mega­bytes per second rather than laughs per minute – I […]