Film
The real ‘Temple of Doom’
Are there real booby traps protecting the long deceased occupants of ancient tombs thousands of years old? Most scholars would say no, that there is no evidence to suggest there were any such traps, and if there were, they would long have become useless through time and dust. Imagine the Indiana Jones movies with no [...]
My top 5 childhood crushes
In May I reminisced about my childhood heroes… today you get to read about my top five childhood crushes (lucky you). 5. The Abba girls I confess my very first childhood crush was on Agnetha and Anni-frid. My siblings were all teenagers when Abba-mania came to the Drake household (late 70s). I was four years [...]
The house, the hand and the horror
I used to love visiting the ‘Grange’ during my childhood. The Grange was a huge old villa, owned by the Salvation Army and operated as a girls home until it was demolished in the late 80′s. My ‘Aunty’ Janice worked there, and I was frequently mothered by all the girls at the home whenever Aunty [...]
The mighty Civic Theatre
My most memorable movie-going experience was seeing ‘Indiana Jones & The Temple Of Doom’ at the Civic theatre (Queen Street, Auckland) when I was 10 years old. I was somewhat mesmerized every time I went to the Civic as a kid, because it seemed like I was literally transported into another world. The Auckland Civic [...]
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