Category Archives: Political

When a Man Booker Prize winner gives you writing tips, take heed. New Zealand author Eleanor Catton, who won this year’s Man Booker for her novel The Luminaries, has tweeted advice to the writer of The Hunger Games trilogy, Suzanne Collins, on how she could have made the plot better

After attending the Prime, Mediaworks and TVNZ 2014 season launches last month, James Croot reveals the 10 new free-to-air shows he’s most looking forward to seeing. The Blacklist (TV3) The charismatic and quirky James Spader (Boston Legal) is back in prime time starring as a criminal mastermind who mysteriously surrenders himself to the Feds, offering to help hunt down the very men he’s spent his career protecting

A TV movie about a bizarre and grisly murder set against the 1970s backdrop of the capital’s colourful underground and its staid suburbia has been greenlit for production.

It’s not what you say, it’s the way that you say it. It’s not what you write, it’s the way that you write it.

“Ethics As far as I’m concerned, that’s a place to the east of London where people wear white socks.” That’s Kelvin MacKenzie, the legendary editor of Rupert Murdoch’s flagship paper The Sun. News Corp always had its critics (“From what I’ve seen of Murdoch’s papers,” quipped journalist Mike Royko in 1983, “I don’t know any self-respecting fish who would want to be wrapped in one!”) but no one could doubt its proprietor’s understanding of the newspaper business.

Slavery drama 12 Years a Slave and 1970s con-artist caper American Hustle led the Golden Globe Awards nominations announced on Thursday (local time) with seven nods each, fortifying their frontrunner positions in a crowded field ahead of the Oscars. In the coveted best drama category, 12 Years a Slave will compete against Somali piracy nail-biter Captain Phillips, space thriller Gravity, adoption drama Philomena, and race-car rivalry Rush

REVIEW: Doctor Who – The Enemy of the World (BBC/Roadshow Entertainment, PG) For 45 years The Enemy of the World was lost, but thanks to a bit of television archaeology by Phillip Morris it was found gathering dust in a store room at a television relay station in Nigeria. “I remember wiping the dust off the masking tape on the canisters and my heart missed a beat as I saw the words ‘Doctor Who’,” said Morris of this six part black and white Doctor Who story originally broadcast in December 1967 and January 1968.

Melbourne-based stand-up comedian

“I hate talking about myself, I find it such a boring topic,” says Martin Henderson. “I’d much rather talk about other things.” Unfortunate, then, that he’s on the phone to discuss his role in local comedy Auckland Daze in which he plays, well, himself

OPINION: The music industry has reached a new low. And that’s saying something.