Wartimes’ yarns touching

The Gaylene Preston-directed film Home by Christmas is a “touching memoir” based on interviews which Preston “conducted with her now-deceased father” and “not only re-creates those conversations and their evocation of wartime yarns, but delivers a subtle dramatisation of the home front’s less sensational events,” Russell Edwards writes in a review of the film for Variety. “In a shadowy minor role, Preston plays herself as she interviews her father, Ed [Australian Tony Barry], about his military life. The second narrative strand focuses on the filmmaker’s mother, Tui (Chelsie Preston-Crayford, the director’s daughter). Aided by superb art direction and a strong score by Preston’s sister, Jan, [Home by Christmas] communicates the complexity of home life with judicious minimalism.”


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Pirate Comedy Deserves Another Season

Pirate Comedy Deserves Another Season

Cancelled after two season, Taika Waititi’s “silly comedy” Our Flag Means Death “deserves one more voyage”, according to Radio Times critic George White. “ was meant to be sacred…