This Week's Bits

In This Week's Bits: councils given the power to crush boy racer cars and the power to outlaw "crusing", plans to give police and customs officers greater powers to search with out warrants, ACC opened up to competition and those set to benefit or not and we get the chance to kick the tyres of MMP.

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The Weekly Round Up

This week the b found itself chatting with Jackie Brown, Alan Lee (legendary Tolkein illustrator) and Charley Tuna.

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Square Eyes: 100 NZ Films

Fresh off the printing thingy is Awa Press' latest entry in the "100 esstential" series, 100 Esstential NZ Films written by Hamish McDouall.

It's a good read and flicking through its pages I found out a few things I didn't know about some of my favourite local fims. It's a list book and as much as I dislike the modern trend of putting everything into lists, this book manages to transcend the genre. Recommended.

Further reading

As indicated in the interview the NZ Film Archive is a real treasure and well worth a visit on a rainy afternoon.

NZonscreen entry for Gregor Nicholas, the director of Avondale Dogs. Hamish argues it's one of our best short films and I'd agree.

On short that should have been included, in my opinion, is French Doors directed by Steve Ayson. It can be found on youtube here. Watch it with the lights turned off.

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News Rage with James Coe

James finds, as usual, plenty to froth at the mouth about in this week's edition of the Herald on Sunday (slummy mummys included) and we look at the coverage of the Auckland Grammer Nazi kids and the spat between Garth George and Jim Salinger.

Further reading

The orginal Hot Topic post calling out Garth George.

James' own blog, editingtheherald.blogspot.com

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