Author name: Mark It

A couple of years ago, I looked into whether erotic thrillers were indeed dying out or if it was just availability bias due to the fact that the main examples which come to mind are mostly from the 1980s. More…

Actor. Producer. Director. Comedian. TV presenter. You’re unlikely to find a star of New Zealand screen and stage with a more powerfully diverse CV than Ginette McDonald.  NZ On Screen celebrates Ginette’s prolific screen career, both in front and behind…

There’s a moment in The Moon is Upside Down where frazzled anaesthetist Briar (Loren Taylor) gets her period on a road trip with her long-distance beau. Hastily winding toilet paper around her gusset in the toilet of a roadside tearoom,…

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As we cover AI more and more, it’s become even more apparent that AI is very much here to stay. The only debate left is just which filmmaking skills and jobs are going to be more affected by AI versus…

In the weeks since Warner Bros Discovery and TVNZ announced cutbacks in their newsrooms, much of the focus has been on what this means for journalism in this country – but it’s not only newsrooms fighting for survival. The moves…

Working actors face mounting pressure as self-taping auditions become the norm, even for live theatrical performances. Once a necessity under the oppression of COVID-19, presenting high-quality, self-produced videos is now an assumed part of the casting process. Agents and actors…