Shot in long takes in eight parts by nine women filmmakers from the Pacific Islands, this is an illuminating and poetic take on the ‘spirit of existence’.
Tag / New Zealand
Lord of the Rings, The (2001-2003)
Lovely Bones, The (2009)
Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, The (2012)
An expected journey – Peter Jackson brings us back to the old, familiar magic that reminds us why we love to go to the movies.
Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, The (2013)
A mixed bag that makes you wonder if things might be better if the journey was shorter, or at least more briskly-paced.
Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, The (2014)
The drama comes into its own as the movie progresses, with loads of action and spectacle to offer in this rousing finale.
They Shall Not Grow Old (2018)
Conceptually and technologically, it is breathtaking to behold, but the experience of seeing it is at best ambivalent, and at worst problematic.
