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Film review: The Hunger Games – Catching Fire
HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE (M) Directed by Francis Lawrence. I’m starting to like the Hunger Games.
Sir Edmund Hillary gets film fest love
Could Sir Edmund Hillary be due some Oscar love A movie that recreates his ascent of Everest with Tenzing Norgay will premiere at the prestigious Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). New Zealand-based writer and director Leanne Pooley’s
Book chronicles hunt for Che Guevara
Icon of Cuba’s revolution. Symbol of youthful rebellion
Rowling’s The Cuckoo’s Calling ‘had TV offers’
J.K. Rowling says her crime-writing alter ego Robert Galbraith had respectable sales and two TV adaptation offers before he was exposed as a pseudonym for the Harry Potter novelist, and she wishes she could have kept her identity secret a little longer.
‘Doc Martin’ puts on majoral robe
Martin Clunes is supremely confident about the outcome of his mystery drama The Town.
The Fifth Estate trailer: First look
Do we need another WikiLeaks film That is the question that the first trailer for
TV’s way of dealing with off-screen deaths
As the death of Glee star Cory Monteith highlights, the pain for colleagues and friends is very real.
The comeback: Susan Wood on returning to TVNZ
When Susan Wood left television in 2006 she was not in a good place. She had just hada large part of her thyroid removed, she’d had a very public, bitter dispute with Television New Zealand executives about her salary as host of Close Up, and she wasn’t sure she could handle the chaotic life of a newsroom much longer.
Die, Superman, die
Thirty years ago I was high on superheroes and wanted nothing more than a life filled with caped crusaders and men of steel. I’d just seen Superman III at the cinema and I thought to myself: “Why can’t they make more films like this No, why can’t all films be like this” I was a fool, and not just because I was eight or that Superman III is a super dud (Superman AND Richard Pryor in the same What could possibly go wrong).