"Too much surface. Director Lee (The Edge) Tomahori's noir story serves as a McGuffin to its ripe style. Amid secret agendas and unspeakable acts onscreen you stare at the fall of light across old cops' desks. Musing on super-8 footage of naked Jennifer Connelly, your mind wanders. Ah, yes, an allusion to the opening shots of Chinatown. Roman Polanski's grand reinvocation of the dark intuitions of 1940s noir is there, too, in the sumpt ..."
"After an obligatory prologue in which its detective hero suffers a tragic professional setback, Along Came a Spider (based on the James Patterson novel) sets about its business of luring the viewer into its nefarious plot, relying on the magicians technique of misdirection to reveal a double-whammy surprise. The clever, late-coming plot twist is a bit too mechanical but effectively unexpected, making this a satisfying prequel to the hit ..."
The Selling of New Zealand Movies The inside story of the deal-making, shrewd moves and sheer luck that took New Zealand films from obscurity to the top of the world. by Lindsay Shelton Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2005 by Awa Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9582538-4-0, ISBN: 0-9582538-4-6
Reading Pakeha? Fiction and Identity in Aotearoa New Zealand by Christina Stachurski 207 Pages, Published 2009 by Rodopi ISBN-13: 978-90-420-2645-2, ISBN: 90-420-2645-6