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This week King Loser, an independent Aotearoa New Zealand documentary won the Taite Music Prize for music journalism. Directors Cushla Dillon and Andrew Moore’s real life tragicomic chronicle of King Loser, a beloved cult rock and roll band trying to make a comeback, is a thing of excellence.  But where do you go to see it? Netflix, Neon, Disney? Think again. TVNZ Plus? Not even. The good news is King Loser does have one streaming provider following its small cinema premiere at last year’s International Film Festival. Arovision is a local independent streaming platform borne from a legend...

We have every streaming service at our fingertips, but finding a cinematic classic is hard going. Graham Smith investigates where all the old movies have gone.

OPINION: Between them, these platforms are a genuine, evolving and locally owned alternative to the big American blandness on offer.

Paekākāriki Film Festival features films with a cherry on top 12 May, 2021 11:00 PM 3 minutes to read Film Festival organisers from left, Graeme Browne, Jan Borland, Dominique Joslen and Andrew Armitage. This year's Paekākāriki Film Festival will feature more than sit-down films. The festival theme will be centred on capitalism and social inequality and will include a fancy dress party, a silent film accompanied by live music, and Q+A with a film director and cast members. "All the films are trying to make sense of where the money is in the world," festival curator Andrew Armitage from Ar...

So, I guess we welcome Gillian Horvat's I Blame Society with open arms, and then maybe appreciate just what the cash-poor and idea-rich Horvat has done here. This is a film gone meta-within-meta, as Horvat, playing herself as a struggling film-maker, filming herself planning the perfect murder as a plot for a mockumentary and then committing ... anything but. Horvat's journey, from frustrated writer/director, enduring meetings with exactly the type of vapid young male dude-bros we all secretly imagine do run large parts of Hollywood, to stalker and then – possibly – accidental killer ...