Matching her boyfriend and becoming the third straight Samoan winner was icing on the cake for Isabella Moore at the Lexus Song Quest last night. The 23-year-old soprano from West Auckland took out the competition of New Zealand’s best young opera singers, two years after her partner Amitai Pati won the award.
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Hobbit cast tease trailer, bloopers at Comic-Con
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies launched a full-scale assault on Comic-Con. The cast and crew from the final installment of The Hobbit trilogy showed off the first trailer for the fantasy film at the pop-culture convention, as well as a blooper reel from both The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit movies.
Lion Man becomes king of the screens
“Lion Man” Craig Busch has roared back onto TV screens around the world. Busch’s new reality TV series, The Lion Man: African Safari, is being beamed into an audience of tens of millions in India, South Africa and parts of Europe on the Discovery Channel network’s Animal Planet
Arts Channel ‘packed with great shows’
Like father, like son – two handsome men. On the left, Robert De Niro: one of the greatest actors of his generation, his career more recently tarnished by his perplexing decision to appear in all sorts of rubbish.
Soundtrack to my life: Christopher Coleman
“IT WAS 1995 and I had just turned seven. I started saving my pocket money religiously to make my first ever purchase.
Joy Cowley’s favourite books
Joy Cowley is one of New Zealand’s most successful children’s authors and has recently written two books about that iconic insect, Buzzy Bee.
Book review: Summer House with Swimming Pool
REVIEW: There is an unsettling edge of nastiness just below the surface of Herman Koch’s Summer House with Swimming Pool, which is even more disquieting because it makes for a compulsively enjoyable novel. The novel’s only guide, Dr Marc Schlosser, quickly proves himself to be anything but trustworthy
NZTrio hits a nerve in China
After the concert, Ashley Brown spent the night in his hotel room fretting, nervously parting the curtains each time a car idled outside his window. He expected to see men in dark coats silently tread inside to take him and his band mates away
Bill Bailey a man of many colours
Listening to Bill Bailey reel off his list of pets is beginning to get exhausting. “We have a few birds of all kinds of different hue, we have parrots and cockatoos and pigeons and starlings,” he is saying.
Review: Deliver Us From Evil
REVIEW: There doesn’t have to be big-name film stars in a horror movie to get me into the cinema, but unless the story otherwise promises a clever, innovative conceit (like the terrific horror parody The Cabin in the Woods) then the casting of actors I’ve rated highly in more general fare will get my hopes up.