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  Steve Jobs 2015

  ★★★★ Watched 02 Feb 2016

  I have been resisting posting reviews here, because at a certain point the whole "be the product of the social media corporation" model starts to feel a little sour. But damn it. STEVE JOBS is just so entertaining. It's being dumped in the New Zealand market four months after it opened in the States and a scant fortnight before the bluray release, and it was shown to media here two days out from opening, meaning I can't review it in…

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  Godzilla 2014

  ★½ Watched 12 May 2014

  And that's Gareth Edwards done. Or I'd hope so.

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  Mr. Wrong 1986

  ★★★ Rewatched 01 Mar 2014 1

  Fascinating to discover that a film shot in my home town when I was 20-odd is now a period piece. Glass milk bottles!

  The writing is your basic 80s NZ tell-don't-show, with some heavy-handed feminism sitting very oddly with some wince-inducingly accurate Kiwi character writing. I'm going to go ahead and assert that the former was calculated and deliberate, and the latter was Gaylene Preston freewheeling between beats: her instincts are much stronger than her skills at this point in…

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  Much Ado About Nothing 1993

  ★★★ Rewatched 08 Aug 2013 4

  Severely taken aback to discover how poorly this has aged. It was my favourite Shakespeare adaptation when I saw it in 93, & for some years afterwards. I suppose I last saw it in 97, maybe 98... and now I discover the supporting roles are all wretchedly over-acted - aside from Keanu Reeves, who was always a slab of teak here and still is - with Richard Briers and Brian Blessed simply embarrassing. Michael Keaton's Dogberry is arrestingly strange, a fine…

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