Flicks’ favourite film trailers of Aotearoa
Local films get the trailer treatment – including some for their overseas releases.
Features
Ana Scotney’s funniest NZ screen moments
The breakout Breaker Upperers actor on what cracks her up.
New films on NEON, Netflix, and everything else this June
It’s winter. Bunker down with some flicks.
Perfect pairings: Sam Neill’s films with Sam Neill’s wines
Master of Wine Stephen Wong helps with wine words for our movie matches.
A film firearms pro assesses Utu’s quad shotgun
Brendon Durey on the ‘Utu’ prop, and what being an armourer entails.
“They said what?!” – international critics on Aotearoa’s films
Try to match critics’ quotes to the NZ films they reviewed
An expert analysis on Anthony Hopkins’ Kiwi accent in World’s Fastest Indian
Language expert Elizabeth Gordon & phonetician Margaret Maclagan weigh in.
Awesome offshore artwork for Aotearoa films
See how some Kiwi classics (or not-so-classics) were sold to the world.
Waru producers bring 8 Pacific Island directors together for their next project Vai
“Each vignette will be a different moment in the same character’s life”
Vincent Ward on the 30th anniversary of Palme d’Or-nominated The Navigator
In-depth interview with the director of this ambitious, visually striking masterpiece.
48Hours alumni who went on to do massive things
48Hours is more than a competition; it’s a community and an institution.
Chris Stapp on the seat-of-your-pants stunts of Kiwi cinema
Hapless stuntman Randy Cambell’s real-life alter ego picks some of NZ’s finest stunt moments.
Flicks visits the colossal sets of Mortal Engines in Wellington
Liam Maguren went inside the immortal Wellington engine.
Why Ocean’s Eight will be more escapist fun than feminist awakening
Ocean’s Eight, the all-female spin-off from the Ocean’s franchise of heist films, is now in cinemas (you can see it at HOYTS – who’ve brought you this opinion piece). As Amanda Robinson says below, the Sandra Bullock-led pic is more designed to deliver multiplex thrills than upend decades of Hollywood chauvinism. On the eleventh anniversary […]
Remembering Forgotten Silver, the Kiwi classic that Catfished the world
“Forgotten Silver actually brought home to me how important it is to tell the truth,” writes co-director Costa Botes.
Top Ten Tem
We celebrate Temuera Morrison’s ten best contributions to movie acting.
The story of the lone Kiwi animator who took on Pixar at the Oscars
In the same year as Footrot Flats: The Dog’s Tale, another NZ animated classic was released.
Hang on, Neil deGrasse Tyson did a commentary track for The Quiet Earth?
Read some highlights from the renowned astrophysicist’s commentary track on the NZ classic he calls “one of my favourite films”.
Melanie Lynskey on watching Kiwi films from half a world away
We spoke to the actor to get a sense of what it’s like seeing New Zealand’s cinema culture from a distance.
Help us celebrate 40 years of NZ films by telling us your favourites
From An Angel at my Table to Waru, there is a lot to be thankful for.