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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Richard O’Brien is the third sex

Rocky Horror Show creator Richard O’Brien has opened up about his desire to be more feminine, asserting himself to be about 70 per cent male, 30 per cent female. Speaking to BBC Radio4, he revealed he used to be ashamed of his longing to have female qualities but said he had been taking hormone oestrogen pills for the past 10 years

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NZ diplomats ‘heroic’ – Argo escapee

One of the former American diplomats portrayed in the Oscar-winning film, Argo, has set the record straight about the involvement of New Zealand diplomats. Contrary to the film’s version, our diplomats did visit the six embassy workers who escaped after Islamists took over the United States embassy in Tehran and took their 52 colleagues hostage in 1979.

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