Category Archives: Movies and Entertainment

It’s sexy, half-naked, mattress-using ballet and it’s coming to Wellington this weekend. Mattress Suite is part of the Royal New Zealand Ballet’s Allegro showcase.

THE EXPENDABLES 3 (M) Directed by Patrick Hughes Back in 2010, Sly Stallone, always an underestimated creative force, had the idea of bringing a bunch of underemployed 1980s action icons back to form an ensemble cast that would have given the 80s studios a collective wet dream: Stallone, Schwarzenegger, Willis, Rourke, Lundgren. Men who don’t need much in the way of dialogue, or even first names.

The Green Party has released its disability policy, calling for 100 per cent captioning on all television programmes. It would also increase job support funding for people with disabilities by $6.8 million, and boost the Total Mobility scheme by $3.5m.

The New Zealand International Film Festival is heading to Hamilton next week, bringing with it an intensive three-week schedule of award-winning local and international films. Hamilton’s Lido Cinema is being praised for making the country’s leading film festival a success

THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY (PG) Directed by Lasse Hallstrom A couple of years ago, stuck for something to read on a flight, I picked up a book called How I Became a Famous Novelist.

Australia is being gripped by a wave of INXS nostalgia, more than three decades after the band exploded on to the music scene. Michelle Duff speaks to Kirk Pengilly and Tim Farriss about the miniseries that has propelled them back into the charts.

About 50 years after they began performing together, The Seekers will find themselves in Hamilton’s Claudelands Arena on November 28. The near-original lineup of Australian folk pop supergroup – Judith Durham (vocals, piano and tambourine), Athol Guy (double bass and vocals), Keith Potger (12-string guitar, banjo and vocals) and Bruce Woodley (guitar, mandolin, banjo and vocals) – have reunited for the aptly-named Golden Jubilee Tour.

In yet another demonstration of the internet’s bottomless lows – and of Twitter’s still-uncontrolled abuse