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July 18, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The Lion King: Film
The Lion King Director: Jon Favreau Walt Disney Pictures/Fairview Entertainment This version of The Lion King is so technically dazzling, so bereft of heart, so wide-missing of any emotional mark, so utterly digital and soulless that even though I knew Jon Favreau was the director going in I was still stunned to not see Peter Jackson’s […]Archive
August 6, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
DVD Review: Beauty & The Beast – Reviewed by Oscar Sweetman (age 6)
Beauty & The Beast Director: Bill Condon Mandeville Films/Walt Disney Pictures Reviewed by Oscar Sweetman (age 6) Hi, it’s Oscar again with my Beauty & The Beast review. This is my favourite movie because it’s got my favourite actor in it – Emma Watson. She plays Belle, a young girl woman who gets taken prisoner by The Beast – he […]Archive
March 17, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Five Films That Stay With Me: Philip Matthews
Philip Matthews is a senior reporter with Fairfax Media in Christchurch and is a former film reviewer with the NZ Listener. He blogs about films at Second Sight and is on Twitter as @secondzeit. Here are Five Films That Have Stayed With Him… 1 – Solaris: This is such an intensely sorrowful film. If I was […]Archive
November 30, 2015 by Simon Sweetman