Director Bong Joon Ho made Parasite in 2019. It was a masterful expression of filmmaking focusing on themes of inequality, exploitation, and the lengths people will go to get themselves a better life.

My latest opshop review takes you to beautiful Mangawhai Heads north of Auckland where I check out their three main charity stores: St John’s in Moir Street, Mangawhai Opportunity Factory in Wood ...

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes, or so the saying goes by Mark Twain. We find ourselves in an interesting time full of economic uncertainty, rising inequality, and atrocities ...

A recurring trope in movies is that autism is like a superpower. Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man was an early example of this. Ben Affleck was a better killer for it in The Accountant. 2018’s The Predator ...

Disclaimer – As a single person, I have never wanted the bad guy to succeed as much as I did in this movie. The year is 1996, a horror film enters the zeitgeist. The film is one of the first ...

Imagine waking to birdsong, surrounded by bush and no-one else in sight, let alone traffic noise? This was my reality last month, when I took the family to stay at Matakana Retreat, a luxury off-grid ...

For New Year’s Eve 2020 I headed up to beautiful Ascension Winery in Matakana to ring in the new year with music, fireworks, dancing and wine, at the fabulous HIGHLIFE New Year’s party. It was just ...

Movies have sweet spots too, the bliss point for action movies revolve around kinetic action, characters you care about, unique camera movement, and a consistent and coherent story. Michael Bay, the ...

All Blacks, European fashion, iconic brands and the best in international emerging design from around the globe wrapped up the 18 th annual iD Dunedin Fashion Week in the second iD Fashion Show held ...

This latest ON MY DESK Spring Beauty column features the latest beauty, makeup and skincare products to cross my desk in November 2015… ...

The MAC cosmetics colour collection for Chinese New Year in 2017, MAC Year of the Rooster, has distinctive red and black flocked velvet packets, neutral eyes, black liners, and lips in peachy and red ...

Being "comfortable" isn’t the greatest compliment in fashion. So, in an attempt to be seen as stylish rather than just comfortable alone, Kumfs shoes rebranded as Ziera with a launch event in a garden ...