Category Archives: Movies and Entertainment

After almost two decades in obscurity, the girl who broke a nation’s heart as Grace Heke is to reappear on New Zealand screens. But this time she’ll be playing herself – a 36-year-old mother of four living in Cairns, Australia.

It’s the film all of New Zealand will be talking about on Monday morning, with one notable exception – the teenager who plays young rape victim Louise Nicholas will not see most of Consent: The Louise Nicholas story. Houghton Bay schoolgirl Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie, 14, will not be allowed to watch the full docudrama, by order of her famous actor parents Miranda Harcourt and Stuart McKenzie

The deaths this week of Lauren Bacall and Robin Williams weigh heavily on all those who love film.

When Danielle Cormack wrapped filming on the last season of her prison drama, she jumped on her motorbike and rode. It was 14 hours straight, from Melbourne to Sydney – it probably could have been less but she took her time, letting the road slide past the wheels of her Kawasaki V-star

It’s not often you mention Shihad and Hayley Westenra in the same breath, but that is the case today as the Kiwi rockers joined her in the record books for most number one albums. Shihad became the first band to have five number one albums when their new offering, FVEY, debuted at number one on the NZ Top 40 weekly album chart.

Dinah Lee, the queen of the mods in the 1960s, has today released a pop song about Cathedral Square. Australian-based Lee holds a key to the city of Christchurch and last performed here in 2010 as part of the Band Together concert

For American alt rock icon Kristin Hersh, every note and word has to fascinate. Every song has to be alive, like a great person .

A New Zealand-fuelled drama has unfolded on reality TV show Keeping Up with the Kardashians, with a Kiwi radio host at the centre of it.