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May 17, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Wine Country: Film

Wine Country Director: Amy Poehler  Paper Kite Productions/Netflix Wine Country is funny and sweet and thoughtful, both light-hearted and subtly impactful – but it’s getting the pass-mark only from a lot of critics, damned by faint praise because the expectation is Bridesmaids.  
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Ana Gasteyer, Bridesmaids, Emily Spivey, Film, Film Review, Maya Rudolph, Movie, Napa, Netflix, Paula Pell, Rachel Dratch, Tina Fey, Wine Country, Wine Country: Film, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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January 9, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Sisters: Film

Sisters Director: Jason Moore Little Stranger/Everyman Pictures/Universal Pictures It would be easy, I’m sure, for someone to tell you that Sisters – a vehicle built entirely for the dazzling but effortless chemistry between and individual talents of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler – was lazy, crude, cheap, silly. But it’s still fun – and importantly […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 30 Rock, Amy Poehler, Anchorman, Bridesmaids, Comedy, Film, Film Review, Film: Sisters, Funny, Jason Moore, John Cena, Maya Rudolph, Movie, Movie Review, Parks & Recreation, Paula Pell, Rachel Dratch, Sisters, Sisters: Film, SNL, Tina Fey, Trainwreck ·

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November 30, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Five Films That Stay With Me: Andrew Paul Wood

Andrew Paul Wood is a Christchurch-based writer, cultural critic and freelance curator. He writes for The Press, the Listener, Urbis, Architecture New Zealand, and a host of others. Recent work includes a translation into English of the New Zealand poems of German-Jewish poet Karl Wolfskehl, Under New Stars: Poems from the New Zealand Exile (Holloway, 2012, edited by Friedrich Voit), and a […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 'Three Colours', 2001: A Space Odyssey, Adam Sandler, Alien, Aliens, Andrew Paul Wood, Andrew Wood, Art, Art Critic, Art History, Blade Runner, Blazing Saddles, Bridesmaids, Critic, Cultural Critic, District 9, Film, Film Review, Five Films, Five Films That Stay With Me, Ghostbusters, Hannah Montana, Hollywood, Jem and the Holograms, Josie and the Pussycats, Jupiter Ascending, Labyrinth, Lord of the Rings, Melancholia, Metropolis, Movie Review, Movies, Paul Feig, Queen Margot, Remake, Sequel, Special Guest, Star Wars, The Dark Crystal, The Hobbit, The Karamazovs, The Man Who Fell To Earth, The Matrix, The NeverEnding Story, The Princess Bride, The Ridiculous 6, The Shining, Watership Down, Willow, Writer ·

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September 26, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Trainwreck: Film

Trainwreck Director: Judd Apatow Apatow Productions/Universal Pictures We’re at the point now where you expect a Judd Apatow film to be too long – speaking to Marc Maron months before the film was finalised Apatow was self-effacing when Maron straight away asked for the running time of the first cut, questioning whether it came in […]
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