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5 days ago | 
nzherald.co.nz | Sarah Watt
Dakota Johnson: Utterly watchable. Photo / SuppliedMaterialists, directed by Celine Song, is in cinemas now. Past Lives director Celine Song continues her fascination with love and how to find it in this genre-spanning story of a matchmaker who is adept at finding love professionally but not personally. Well-groomed New Yorker Lucy (Dakota Johnson) is a self-possessed woman with a business-like approach to finding her clients their perfect match.
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1 week ago | 
nzherald.co.nz | Sarah Watt
Hinetu Dell and Darneen Christian: On a cultural journey. Photo / SuppliedKōkā, directed by Kath Akuhata-Brown, is in cinemas now. Released in time for Matariki, Kōkā is the tale of Jo, a young wahine Māori whose life is going off the rails, and Hamo, the kuia whose history drives her to help the girl get back on track. The predominantly te reo Māori feature, the debut of Kiwi writer-director Kath Akuhata-Brown, is both a spiritual and cultural journey, and an odd-couple generation-gap road trip.
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1 week ago | 
nzherald.co.nz | Sarah Watt
Nameless and grommet: Nicolas Cage and Finn Little. Photo / SuppliedReview by Sarah WattSarah reviewed for the Sunday Star Times until 2019. After a career change to secondary school teaching, she now she works in alternative education with our most disadvantaged rangatahi. Learn moreThe Surfer, directed by Lorcan Finnegan, is in cinemas now.
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2 weeks ago | 
nzherald.co.nz | Sarah Watt
En pointe and shoot: Ana de Armas. Image / SuppliedReview by Sarah WattSarah reviewed for the Sunday Star Times until 2019. After a career change to secondary school teaching, she now she works in alternative education with our most disadvantaged rangatahi. Learn moreFrom the World of John Wick: Ballerina, directed by Len Wiseman, is in cinemas now.
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2 weeks ago | 
nzherald.co.nz | Sarah Watt
Musings on relationships: Sara Forestier and Camille Cottin in Three Friends. Image / SuppliedReview by Sarah WattSarah reviewed for the Sunday Star Times until 2019. After a career change to secondary school teaching, she now she works in alternative education with our most disadvantaged rangatahi.
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3 weeks ago | 
mondaq.com | Sarah Watt
In the years following the globally disruptive COVID-19pandemic, employers have explored variations of work arrangementsto balance the demands of their businesses with the needs of theiremployees' personal lives. Among the lessons learned throughthe pandemic was, many jobs have the potential to be performedremotely. While the arrangement allowed new flexibility for many workers,it also introduced both expected and unanticipated challenges tomanaging a dispersed workforce.
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3 weeks ago | 
littler.com | Sarah Watt
June 2, 2025 Greater Phoenix In Business Sarah Watt says more than five years after COVID-19 changed workplace norms, many employers are making a concerted push for in-person work. Greater Phoenix In Business
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3 weeks ago | 
nzherald.co.nz | Sarah Watt
Bad habits: Benicio Del Toro, Mia Threapleton and Michael Cera. Photo / SuppliedThe Phoenician Scheme, directed by Wes Anderson, is in cinemas now. Wes Anderson’s latest flight of fancy is touchingly personal in origin, while still typically charming in style. Set in the fictitious Middle Eastern country of Modern Greater Independent Phoenicia, it’s a caper about an estranged parent and child who come together to save the family business.
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1 month ago | 
nzherald.co.nz | Sarah Watt
A meeting of minds: Barbie Ferreira & John Leguizamo. Photo / SuppliedBob Trevino Likes It, directed by Tracie Laymon, is in cinemas now. We hear plenty of stories about the perils of meeting strangers on the internet, but this semi-autobiographical tale is one positive example of mistaken identity gone right. Lonely 24-year-old carer Lily Trevino (Euphoria’s Barbie Ferreira) puts on a brave face and everyone else’s needs first while being buffeted by a relentless series of cruel rejections.
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1 month ago | 
nzherald.co.nz | Sarah Watt
Director Alonso Ruizpalacios, left, alongside striking Mexican actor Raúl Briones, right, at a 'La Cocina' press conference in Mexico. Photo / Getty ImagesLa Cocina, directed by Alonso Ruizpalacios, is in cinemas now. Set during the lunchtime rush of a bustling New York restaurant, La Cocina portrays the hurly-burly of the kitchen, blending personal drama with warm-hearted camaraderie, dashed with swear words hurled in the mother tongues of its immigrant staff.
