GARY STEEL watches William Friedkin talk about his film The Exorcist for 105 minutes and realises he’ll never get that time back.
Film & Television
NZIFF 2020 – Coded Bias REVIEW
We’re being snooped on big time and there are few laws to protect us from the evils of this new AI technology. GARY STEEL is worried.
NZIFF 2020 – The Kingmaker REVIEW
GARY STEEL watches a compelling documentary about an amazing (and awful) woman with a creeping sense of unease. Essential viewing, he reckons.
NZIFF 2020 – Jesus Shows You The Way To The Highway REVIEW
If you were wondering where the weird went in this year’s film fest, look no further. GARY STEEL enters another dimension.
NZIFF 2020 – Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets REVIEW
It’s a bit like having a perpetual hangover, but GARY STEEL just can’t stop mulling over the sozzled, discarded clientele of the bar that is no more.
NZIFF 2020 – Relic REVIEW
It takes a lot to impress horror movie fiend GARY STEEL, but Relic takes a cliched horror subgenre and twists it into something else altogether.
NZIFF 2020 – Kubrick By Kubrick REVIEW
Finally, writes GARY STEEL, a film that comprehensively engages with the astonishing filmic legacy of Stanley Kubrick, more or less from the horse’s mouth.
Shirley REVIEW
Films about writers are almost always terrible. GARY STEEL writes about one compelling exception which flouts all the rules.