Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins speaks to Stuff about the rollout plans for the vaccine.
“When will we get a vaccine for Covid-19?” It has been the question on everyone’s lips for nearly a year. As an increasing number of countries have started immunising their citizens, Brittany Keogh investigates when and how the roll-out will happen in New Zealand. The phone rings at the Immunisation Advisory Centre. As a staff member picks up, the caller introduces themselves as a medical practitioner. They want to know where their patients can get vaccinated against Covid-19. People keep asking them over and over, they say. The worker tells the caller what she has told several others who have asked the same question: there are no such vaccines available in New Zealand yet.
A24’s New Nightmare SAINT MAUD Finally Gets US Release By Mike Sprague
First-time writer-director Rose Glass’
Saint Maud finally hits theaters and drive-ins on the 29th. Even better, Epix will stream the film beginning on February 12th.
Mark your calanders!
The film follows live-in nurse Maud who arrives at the home of Amanda, a famous dancer now frail from illness and trapped in her grand, isolated house. At first, Amanda is intrigued by this religious young woman, who provides a distraction from her failing health. Maud, in turn, is bewitched by her new patient. But Maud is not all that she seems. She is tormented by a violent secret from her past and by ecstatic messages she believes are directly from God. She becomes convinced she has been sent to Amanda not simply as a nurse, but to serve a divine purpose. As her grip on reality slides out of control, Maud’s care turns into a deadly mission to save Ama
Saint Maud is written and directed by Rose Glass in her feature directorial debut with Andrea Cornwell and Oliver Kassman serving as producers and was set to hit theaters in the US on April 3 and the UK on May 1, but amidst global pandemic concerns is now left undated. It made its debut at the Toronto International Film Festival in September to rave reviews, currently maintaining a 93% approval rating form critics on review aggregate Rotten Tomatoes.
Saint Maud is a chilling and boldly original vision of faith, madness, and salvation in a fallen world. Maud, a newly devout hospice nurse, becomes obsessed with saving her dying patient’s soul but sinister forces, and her own sinful past, threaten to put an end to her holy calling.
The Flickering Myth writing team share our top ten movies of 2020…
And so we come to the end of 2020 – a year which I’m sure virtually everyone is glad to see behind us. The past twelve months been a hugely difficult and trying time for all, what with events that have engulfed the globe, and as we turn our attention to 2021 and – hopefully – the prospect of a brighter future, it’s time to cast our eye back over the cinematic offerings that have kept us entertained and enthralled through what has otherwise been quite the stinker of a year.
We began 2020 looking forward to the likes of
After an extraordinary year which temporarily closed cinemas, Damon Smith chooses his top 10 films of 2020 Parasite: Choi Woo-shik as Kim Ki-woo, Song Kang-ho as Kim Ki-taek, Chang Hyae-jin as Kim Chung-sook and Park So-dam as Kim Ki-jeong Damon Smith
Soul: Soul 22 (Tina Fey) and Joe (Jamie Foxx)
1. PARASITE (15, 132 mins) Thriller/Comedy/Horror/Romance. Song Kang-ho, Chang Hye-jin, Choi Woo-shik, Park So-dam, Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Yeo-jeong, Jeong Ji-so, Jung Hyeon-jun, Lee Jung-eun. Director: Bong Joon-ho.
WRITER-director Bong Joon-ho mines a mother lode of deliciously cruel intentions in his wickedly entertaining, genre-bending satire, which won Best Picture at the Academy Awards. Careening wildly from slapstick and scabrous social commentary to full-blooded horror, Parasite gleefully inhabits the cavernous divide between South Korea s haves and have-nots.