Five Albums I’m Loving Right Now: Brent Hodge
Brent Hodge started his film directing career with CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) directing TV documentaries including Leo Nominated Winning America and What Happens Next about Canadian singer...
View ArticleStubs: # 75 – John Waters, Wellington, 2011
I’m not sure I’ve ever paid money to hear someone speak. (A spoken-word show or lecture I mean, not counting Writers Festival panels, stand-up comedy and theatre). But if there was ever anyone I would...
View ArticleFive Albums I’m Loving Right Now: Brent Hodge
Brent Hodge started his film directing career with CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) directing TV documentaries including Leo Nominated Winning America and What Happens Next about Canadian singer...
View ArticleStubs: # 75 – John Waters, Wellington, 2011
I’m not sure I’ve ever paid money to hear someone speak. (A spoken-word show or lecture I mean, not counting Writers Festival panels, stand-up comedy and theatre). But if there was ever anyone I would...
View ArticleThe Hateful Eight: Film
The Hateful Eight Director: Quentin Tarantino FilmColony/The Weinstein Company Where the last two Tarantino films have left me cold – Django almost worked, but it was too long and had no real point...
View ArticleAuthors I Admire: # 13 Neil LaBute
You might normally find an appreciation of Neil LaBute under film or theatre – rather than discussion of him as an author. Actually, you might not find a written appreciation of Neil LaBute...
View ArticleTom Roston: I Lost It At The Video Store – A Filmmakers’ Oral History of a...
I Lost It At The Video Store: A Filmmakers’ Oral History of a Vanished Era Tom Roston The Critical Press This well-intentioned, slim volume aims to bring together a range of voices around the idea of...
View ArticleThe John Waters Interview: From The Archives
I have John Waters on the line, cult film-maker, writer, visual artist, collector and curator, journalist, raconteur and lifelong music fan. His voice, that unmistakable purr, camp but measured, a...
View ArticleThe Musical Worlds of John Waters: Filmmaker, Author, Icon
It’s one thing to like music, to follow it, to read about it, absorb it – but music is just a part of the larger pop-culture wheel. Usually you scratch a music fan and find someone obsessed with...
View ArticleSweetman Podcast: Episode 38 – Costa Botes
Welcome to episode 38 of Sweetman Podcast brought to you by Phantom Billstickers. A chat with Wellington filmmaker Costa Botes. I first met Costa Botes about 10 years ago, I was writing a profile on...
View ArticleFive Films That Stay With Me: DJ T-Rock
Travis Lee Eller a.k.a. DJ T-Rock is an Actor, Writer, Director Turntablist and Music Producer and is also half of the duo DJ T-Rock and Squashy Nice. Born in the mountains of North Carolina, he...
View ArticleFive Films That Stay With Me: Simon Ogston
Simon Ogston is an Auckland-based producer, director and camera-operator. Among other things, Simon has made a number of feature-length films about New Zealand bands. These include Rumble & Bang,...
View ArticleSweetman Podcast: Episode 75 – Gaylene Preston
Welcome to episode 75 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. I was lucky to have a chat with legendary Kiwi film director Gaylene Preston....
View ArticleJohn Carpenter: Anthology – Movie Themes 1974-1998
John Carpenter Anthology: Movie Themes 1974-1998 Scared Bones Records John Carpenter – like John Waters – finds himself at 70 years of age and with one of the sideline aspects of his filmmaking career...
View ArticleSweetman Podcast: Episode 154 – Peter Wells
Welcome to episode 154 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat. Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site,...
View ArticleMy New EBook: Selected Interviews (Vol. 1)
I’ve just published my new e-book – a selection of some of my favourite interviews. There are new essays and context-notes around each interview and the range of subjects takes in not just musicians...
View ArticleSweetman Podcast # 257: Florian Habicht
Hey there, this is episode 257 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T and Yeastie Boys and thanks to you readers and listeners. Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual...
View ArticleR.I.P. Peter Bogdanovich
Peter Bogdanovich has died. He was 82. The acclaimed film director, writer and actor burst onto the scene in the early 1970s with his adaptation of the Larry McMurtry novel, The Last Picture Show. A...
View ArticleIn Praise of Rob Reiner
I’ve been thinking a bit about Rob Reiner lately. Still very much alive and active, he is the son of a comedy legend (Carl Reiner) and he is a comedy legend himself. Reiner is known for his work as a...
View ArticleI Am Alfred Hitchcock: DVD
I Am Alfred HitchcockI Am Director: Joel Ashton McCarthy Fremantle / ViaVision / Madman There are so many Hitchcock docos already, and books, and ways to learn about the man and his films – for a...
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