More tests needed for cause of Monteith’s death

With no obvious cause of death for Glee star Cory Monteith, the British Columbia Coroners Service says it will do further testing to determine how the 31-year-old died. The autopsy was taking place today (NZ time), but the coroners’ service says it could take several days before toxicology test results are in

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Bluray review: Life Of Pi

LIFE OF PI 3D (20th Century Fox) Director: Ang Lee Starring: Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Rafe Spall, a tiger Ang Lee won Best Director at the most recent Academy Awards. I’m not sure how or why, because so much of the film is based on computer effects that it’s hard to know exactly how much influence Lee might have had on the look and feel of Life Of Pi.

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Album review: Time Stays, We Go – The Veils

TIME STAYS, WE GO The Veils (Universal) Kiwi-raised indie oddball Finn Andrews returned to the LA studio that gave birth to The Veils’ 2006 hit album Nux Vomica for the band’s fourth full-lengther and the result is wonderfully weird. Make no mistake, there’s very litte mainstream top-10 hit material here but Andrews’ unstoppable song-writing (he claims to write every day and had to pare back hundreds of tracks to find these 10) allows for him to hit the off-beat from a number of different directions – mariachi horns, heavy reverbed guitars, 17th century English poets and a fairytale song about birds all feature.

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