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July 8, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Wellington Film Society: Preview – Young Torless (July 9)

The Wellington Film Society’s program will soon take a break for a couple of weeks to welcome The International Film Festival but there’s still a couple of weeks of films and then the program returns in mid-August for another few months. Following on from last week’s showing of Les Cowboys we travel back in time […]

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March 13, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

NZ Festival Writers Week: The Kids Are Alright

The Kids Are Alright: Embassy Theatre Saturday, March 12 For this Writers Week event it was Sally Gardner (UK), Cornelia Funke (Germany) and Ted Dawe (NZ) in conversation with Mandy Hager, the subject: YA fiction. A thoughtful hour of panel discussion looked at how YA fiction is for everyone, not just “young adults” – and […]

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June 6, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Museum: Traces Of

Museum Traces Of Inakustik German pop group Museum traces around Suede on the opening track of their album Traces Of in a way that Interpol traced around Joy Division. Placebo would be another obvious reference point (particularly on For The Very First Time) but Museum almost takes the nu-metal approach to Britpop influences, which is […]