Stories by Adam Goodall

"Show, don't tell" is the adage. Someone should pass that on to Christopher Nolan. Spoilers ahead.

Damien Chazelle's first feature film, a "student-teacher music drama", is 105 minutes of emotional and psychological warfare.

Get On Up opens strong but struggles to keep the groove that would have made it more than the usual Hollywood biopic.

Gone Girl purring with ill intent. It's what you want out of a seedy thriller, writes Adam Goodall.

A futuristic couch gag and a Family Guy crossover episode both aim to show appreciation for The Simpsons' legacy – but only one captures its spirit.

"Aggressively, horrifically dumb." Michael Bay's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle reboot brings Adam Goodall out of his shell.

The Giver is the 1993 novel that launched a thousand YA Dystopias – and as such its 2014 film adaptation feels worn.

Adam Goodall isn't sorry about not liking Guardians of the Galaxy and wonders why everyone is so precious about it.

Adam Goodall finds crime epic The Last Saint lacking in funding, but not ambition.

With Adam Goodall's final wrap from the international film festival, we now return to our regular scheduled programming.

Technical difficulties aside, Adam Goodall finds cinema to be a window to experience – some more universal than others.

Adam Goodall is still not entirely sure about some of the NZFF films he has seen - but he's happy with the provocation.

Adam unfurls himself from the foetal position to report back on those festival films that made it down South.

Adam Goodall talks nightmares with Jennifer Kent, director of The Babadook.

A "strange and skewed" vision of the future that doesn't strike Adam Goodall as all that out from the present day.

Adam Goodall talks to the revolutionary, activist filmmaker and media commentator Matthew VanDyke, the subject of the documentary Point and Shoot.

Ready your spreadsheets: Adam Goodall and Judah Finnigan pick their favourites of the film festival.

The buzz around What We Do In The Shadows is that it's 'hilarious'. But at its cold, dead heart is a sense of loss, giving the comedy some teeth.

Cori Gonzalez-Macuer talks about playing a loudmouth vampire in What We Do In The Shadows.

Adam Goodall falls for "one of the best NZ films of the past decade", Curtis Vowell's Fantail.

Adam Goodall finds a lot to explore in Paweł Pawlikowski's "oddly out of time" film, Ida.

The tension between mankind's self-interest and the environment is the least of Godzilla's problems.

Bad Neighbours is fantastically funny, writes Adam Goodall, and Zac Efron is a revelation - and not just because of his abs.

Jim Jarmusch's luxurious vampire mess-around is going to seem like the coolest thing in the world if you're more into literature and guitars than you are jobs or housekeeping or money.

Film bloggers Adam Goodall and Judah Finnigan are looking forward to the Cannes Film Festival. A lot.