Erin Harrington

Aug 18, 2024 | thespinoff.co.nz | Erin Harrington

Erin Harrington reviews Jonathan Ogilvie’s coming-of-age film set in 1970s and 80s Christchurch. Jonathan Ogilvie’s semi-autobiographical coming-of-age film Head South spits in the face of cultural cringe. It pays warm tribute to Ōtautahi Christchurch’s vibrant underground post-punk scene in the 1970s and 80s, which gained international recognition and birthed the legendary Flying Nun label.

Jun 3, 2024 | theconversation.com | Erin Harrington |Jadey O'Regan |Marina Deller |Phoebe Hart |Stuart Richards

June is set to be a month of holding up the mirror to reality, with our experts recommending three new non-fiction watches. No streaming list is complete without some true crime, so we’ve got the long-awaited second season of The Jinx (which comes nearly a decade after the first). We also look at Netflix’s scandalous Ashley Madison: Sex, Lies & Scandal, a three-part docuseries that dissects the infamous site designed for people seeking affairs.

Jun 3, 2024 | thetimes.com.au | Erin Harrington

Written by Erin Harrington, Senior Lecturer in English and Cultural Studies, University of Canterbury June is set to be a month of holding up the mirror to reality, with our experts recommending three new non-fiction watches. No streaming list is complete without some true crime, so we’ve got the long-awaited second season of The Jinx (which comes nearly a decade after the first).

Apr 11, 2024 | theconversation.com | Erin Harrington

The ’70s-throwback found-footage horror comedy, Late Night with the Devil, joins a long list of recent Australian horror success stories. Framed as a tabloid-style retrospective, the film invites us to watch the newly discovered footage of an episode from a late-night talk show, Night Owls, broadcast live on Halloween 1977. On this night it all went wrong, and evil was beamed into America’s homes.

Mar 20, 2024 | openforum.com.au | Erin Harrington

In the middle of the night, during a terrible thunderstorm, a sodden stranger knocks on Patrick’s door hoping to use a phone. Insomniac Patrick (Brendan Rock) is a paranoid, bearded loner who sits alone in his dimly-lit mobile home as if he is waiting for a dawn that may never come. The nameless, barefoot visitor (Jordan Cowan), a 20-something woman with long dark hair and haunted eyes, seems unsure if she’s stumbled across a saviour, or a predator.