First published by Little White Lies Before his death in 1996, Barry Crump had written 24 semi-autobiographical comic novels drawn from a life spent chiefly in the New Zealand bush. Now Taika Waititi (Eagle Vs Shark, Boy) has adapted one of those novels, 1986’s Wild Pork and Watercress, for the big screen, and the results…
Housebound first published by Grolsch FilmWorks “I’m not going to spend the next eight months being a prisoner in my own home!” So declares middle-aged chatterbox Miriam Bucknell (Rima Te Wiata) to her “cabbage in a polar fleece” boyfriend Graeme (Ross Harper). It is dawning on Miriam, indignantly confined to her own bedroom to watch her…