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Tom Augustine

New Zealand
As seen in: New Zealand Herald, Little White Lies, The Spinoff, SPN News, Flicks, Metro, Flicks.com.au, Ensemble Magazine, North and South Magazine
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The Paper’s first season might be as good as The Office

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By Tom Augustine
| Flicks
Comparison will be the death of The Paper. Its creators, Greg Daniels and Michael Koman, have already run laps around the media trying to avoid the labels “reboot” or “spinoff” when it comes to the show’s relationship to Daniels’s The Office, i.e. the most-streamed show in America. The best they’ve been able to come up with is “a new documentary from the same crew”.
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Metro — It wasn’t me — it was the puppet

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By Tom Augustine
| Metro Verified
People Sometime in the 1980s, a massive fire ripped through the home of sculptor Greer Twiss, destroying around 60% of his accumulated artwork, including many of the intricate, handmade puppets that he had made and used in his career. Twiss, with his usual wryness, took it in stride. “It was a good way to clean house.” The home Twiss, 87, and his wife, Dee, now occupy sits inconspicuously amid the hustle and bustle of Ponsonby, tucked between cafes and offices.
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Tom Hardy finishes the Venom movies on an insane high

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By Luke Buckmaster Verified, Eliza Janssen Verified, Tom Augustine, Liam Maguren Verified
| Flicks.com.au
In the Venom movies, Tom Hardy achieved the seemingly impossible: making a CGI-slathered performance feel fundamentally his, writes Luke Buckmaster. There was a point, somewhere between the first and second Venom movies, when the producers realised how silly the whole thing was and decided to turn the franchise into a black comedy. Thank god they did: while I didn’t care for the first film I dug the Andy Serkis-directed second: a silly, wily sequel sprinkled with outré moments that made me giggle.
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