Lore: DVD Review

Lore: DVD Review

Rating: M
Released by Universal Home Entertainment

A hit at this past year's New Zealand International Film Festival, Lore is the story of a young girl coming of age at the end of World War II.

A haunting Saskia Rosendahl plays Lore, the teenage daughter of an SS officer and a Hitler supporting mother. As the film begins the war is ending and the Allies are sweeping across, arresting those who served under Hitler.

Lore's father is taken in and her mother demands she leave, taking her younger siblings with her to stay with their grandmother. But it's a 900km journey to Hamburg and Lore faces all manner of problems on the escape.

A coming of age story with a darker background, Lore is vibrantly coloured in a disconcerting and visually excellent way. From Lore's red locks to heightened colours in the world around her, there's plenty to focus on on screen as the film plays out. This is not a flick which begins with action, but there's tension all around as Lore makes her journey. Complicating things are a relationship with a teenage Jewish boy, which stirs mixed feelings of lust and hatred.

Sensitively handled, Lore is an unusual story, which has never really been told before. Anchored by a solid and empathetic performance from Rosendahl, there's a haunting and harrowing quality to the film and one which stays with you long after it's finished.

Extras: None

Rating:

Iron Man 3: Pepper Potts poster

Iron Man 3: Pepper Potts poster 

Good news for the continuing Iron Man 3 publicity campaign.

A brand new Iron Man 3: Pepper Potts poster has been revealed.

Take a look at the Iron Man 3: Pepper Potts poster below:

Brand new Amazing Spider-Man 2 suit is here

Brand new Amazing Spider-Man 2 suit is here

The brand new first look at The Amazing Spider-man 2 suit is here.

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 hits cinemas in May next year - but here's your first look at the Webslinger's new clothes.

Oscars 2013 - The Winners

Oscars 2013 - The Winners

It's the Oscars today - and here's the full breakdown of the winners from the 2013 Academy Awards.

The Academy Award winners for 2013 are:

Best picture - Argo
Best director - Ang Lee
Best actor - Daniel Day Lewis (3rd time won)
Best actress - Jennifer Lawrence
Best original screenplay - Django Unchained
Best adapted screenplay -  Argo
Best original song - Skyfall
Best original score - Life of Pi
Best production design - Lincoln
Best film editing - Argo
Best supporting actress - Anne Hathaway
Best sound editing - Tie - Zero Dark Thirty and Skyfall (first since 1968)
Best sound mixing - Les Miserables
Best foreign language film - Amour
Best documentary feature - Searching for Sugar Man
Best documentary short subject - Inocente
Best live action short - Curfew
Best make up and hairstyling - Les Miserables
Best costume design - Anna Karenina
Best visual FX - Life of Pi
Best cinematography - Life of Pi
Best animated feature - Brave

Best animated short film - Paperman
Best supporting actor - Christoph Waltz

And the  Oscar nominations were -

BEST PICTURE
Amour
Argo
Django Unchained
Les Misérables
Life Of Pi
Lincoln
Zero Dark Thirty
Beasts Of The Southern Wild
Silver Linings Playbook

BEST DIRECTOR
Life Of Pi - Ang Lee
Lincoln - Steven Spielberg
Amour - Michael Haneke
Silver Linings Playbook - David O. Russell
Beasts Of The Southern Wild - Benh Zeitlin

BEST ACTOR
Denzel Washington - Flight
Bradley Cooper - Silver Linings Playbook
Daniel Day-Lewis - Lincoln
Hugh Jackman - Les Misérables
Joaquin Phoenix - The Master

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Alan Arkin - Argo
Christoph Waltz - Django Unchained
Robert De Niro - Silver Linings Playbook
Philip Seymour Hoffman - The Master
Tommy Lee Jones - Lincoln

BEST ACTRESS
Emmanuelle Riva - Amour
Jennifer Lawrence - Silver Linings Playbook
Jessica Chastain - Zero Dark Thirty
Quvenzhané Wallis - Beasts Of The Southern Wild
Naomi Watts - The Impossible

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Amy Adams - The Master
Anne Hathaway - Les Misérables
Helen Hunt - The Sessions
Sally Field - Lincoln
Jacky Weaver - Silver Linings Playbook

BEST ANIMATED FILM
Brave
Frankenweenie
Paranorman
The Pirates! In An Adventure WIth Scientists
Wreck-it-Ralph

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Chris Terrio - Argo
Lucy Alibar, Benh Zeitlin - Beasts Of The Southern Wild 
David Magee - Life Of Pi
Tony Kushner - Lincoln
David O. Russell - Silver Linings Playbook

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Michael Haneke - Amour
Quentin Tarantino - Django Unchained
Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola - Moonrise Kingdom
Mark Boal - Zero Dark Thirty
John Gatins - Flight

CINEMATOGRAPHY
Anna Karenina - Seamus McGarvey
Django Unchained - Robert Richardson
Life Of Pi - Claudio Miranda
Lincoln - Janusz Kaminski
Skyfall - Roger Deakins

COSTUME DESIGN
Anna Karenina - Jacqueline Durran
Les Misérables - Paco Delgado
Lincoln - Joanna Johnston
Mirror Mirror - Eiko Ishioka
Snow White And The Huntsman - Colleen Atwood

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

5 Broken Cameras
The Gatekeepers
How To Survive A Plague
The Invisible War
Searching For Sugar Man

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Inocente
Kings Point
Mondays At Racine
Open Heart
Redemption

BEST FILM EDITING

Argo - William Goldenberg
Life Of Pi - Tim Squyres
Zero Dark Thirty - Dylan Tichenor, William GoldenbergLincoln - Michael Kahn
Silver Linings Playbook - Jay Cassidy & Crispin Struthers

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Amour - Austria
Kon-Tiki - Norway
No - Chile
A Royal Affair - Denmark
War Witch - Canada

BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING
Hitchcock - Julie Hewett, Martin Samuel, Howard Berger

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - Peter Swords King, Richard Taylor, Rick Findlater
Les Misérables - Lisa Westcott

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Anna Karenina - Dario Marianelli
Argo - Alexandre Desplat
Life Of Pi - Mychael Danna
Lincoln - John Williams
Skyfall - Thomas Newman

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
'Before My Time' from Chasing Ice
'Everybody Needs A Best Friend' from Ted
'Pi's Lullaby' from Life Of Pi
'Skyfall' from Skyfall
'Suddenly' from Les Miserables

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Anna Karenina
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Les Miserables
Life Of Pi
Lincoln

BEST ANIMATED SHORT
Adam and Dog
Fresh Guacamole
Head Over Heels
Maggie Simpson In "The Longest Daycare"
Paperman

BEST LIVE FILM SHORT
Asad
Buzkashi Boys
Curfew
Death Of A Shadow
Henry

BEST SOUND EDITING
Argo
Django Unchained
Life Of Pi
Skyfall
Zero Dark Thirty

BEST SOUND MIXING
Argo
Les Miserables
Life Of Pi
Lincoln
Skyfall

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Life Of Pi
Marvel Avengers Assemble
Prometheus
Snow White And The Huntsman

NOMINEES BREAKDOWN:

Lincoln - 12

Life of Pi - 11

Les Miserables - 8

Silver Linings Playbook - 8

Argo - 7

Amour - 5

Zero Dark Thirty - 5

Skyfall - 5

Anna Karenina - 5

Beasts of the Southern Wild - 4

The Master - 4

The Hobbit - 3

Flight - 3

Moonrise Kingdom - 2

Snow White and the Huntsman - 2

The Oscars 2013 - Live From the Red Carpet

The Oscars - Live From the Red Carpet

It is of course the Oscars today - and here's E! Online's live red carpet feed of all the build up to the 85th Academy Awards.

Storage Wars: DVD Review

Storage Wars: DVD Review

Rating: G
Released by Magna Home Entertainment

It's a fiendishly simple idea.

Get together a group of guys, who all have a bit of cash and have them bid on the contents of locked storage lockers. Highest bidder wins and the deal is they then have to turn the contents of said locker into cash - if they can.

Storage Wars is an American reality show which concentrates its efforts on four main dealers - Darrell, Dave, Jarrod and Barry. All four of these have been in this game for some years and all have varying degrees of success - but all are determined to win as much as they can.

What's fascinating about Storage Wars is a combination of things - the contents of the lockers and the dynamics between the four guys; there's Dave, who seems to wind everyone up and bid up the price just because he can and then there's Jarrod, who's a newcomer to the game but always seems to be shut out.

It's an extremely addictive series too - three volumes are available right now and even though there's been accusations this show is faked by the producers with regards to the contents of the locker, it loses none of the impact of the vicarious thrills of seeing people stumble on something truly worth some good money.

Don't be surprised though if you start watching a few episodes and then find a few hours have gone by - it's that good and enjoyable.

Extras: None

Rating:

Talking Oscars with Jack Tame on Newstalk ZB

Talking Oscars with Jack Tame on Newstalk ZB

It is of course The Oscars 2013 today.

Here's my chat from NewsTalk ZB on the weekend with Jack Tame who was in LA for the Oscars.

We talk the potential winners and the surefire things from the upcoming Academy Awards.

http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/auckland/player/ondemand/1465184452-2013-oscars-preview