Directed by Catherine Corsini

Sensitive undergraduates be forewarned: there's a lot of middle aged sex in "Leaving". Some of it is as bad as you'd expect from your parents and their generation: a medical patrician prefers that his spouse stays as still as possible whilst he shoves it in, enforcing the conjugal rights. For the most part though the bedroom gymnastics go a ways to show that there can be carnal fun after 45, particularly given that the liberated woman at the film's heart is played by Kristen Scott Thomas, a luminous actress in the middle of a career renaissance.

by Jack Lasenby
The Haystack won the New Zealand Post 2009 Junior Fiction Award. Set during the depression of the 30’s in the small Waikato dairying town of Waharoa the central character in The Haystack is Maggie, a young girl who is being raised by her dad. Her mum died and she can hardly remember her.

404 Grey St., Hamilton East

Director – Ridley Scott
Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, Mark Strong

There has been a lot of words said about Ridley Scott’s newest film, Robin Hood. And, heaven forbid, I am going to say just a few more.
I approached this epic tale with a little wariness. There were the mixed reviews, the tantrum of Russell Crowe when questioned over his ability to carry an English accent and the change in casting from Siena Miller to Cate Blanchett to think about.