This week journalist Mihingarangi Forbes will start a new gig as presenter of Native Affairs, Maori Television’s flagship current affairs show. Forbes is an award-winning journalist who honed her skills with stints at TVNZ and TV3 (including seven years at Campbell Live) before joining Maori Television last year as a producer for Te Kaea, the channel’s daily news bulletin.
Category Archives: Movies and Entertainment
Bill Culbert returns to Venice
On a busy
Into a world of magic
Oz: The Great and Powerful (PG) 130 mins ——————– Sam Raimi probably set out to produce an ambitious, cutting-edge prequel to the Wizard of Oz, but instead Oz: The Great and Powerful offers something of a return to classic Disney storytelling values, and that’s no bad thing. There’s already plenty of negative online chatter about Raimi’s arguably excessive use of CGI animation and other fripperies, but you should ignore that and look at how Oz does the basics, and does them well
Bill Cuthbert returns to Venice
On a busy
Review: Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran TSB Arena, Wellington, March 8 There’s a lot about Ed Sheeran that I didn’t know.
Bieber in spat with paparazzi
Canadian pop star Justin Bieber was filmed lunging and shouting abuse at a photographer on Friday (NZT Saturday) during an ill-fated stay in London which has gone from bad to worse after he collapsed on stage the day before. The altercation, caught on camera, showed the 19-year-old get out of a van, try to move towards the unnamed member of the paparazzi and threaten him using several swear words.
DiCaprio unconcerned by violence
Leonardo DiCaprio says filming violent scenes like in Django Unchained doesn’t deter him from wanting his movies to be great art. The bloody revenge film about slavery before the US Civil War has fuelled some of the debate about whether Hollywood shows too much on-screen violence.
Kim and Kris’s divorce heats up
Kim Kardashian’s estranged husband Kris Humphries is reportedly infuriated over her recent health scare. The 32-year-old reality star is expecting her first child with her rapper boyfriend Kanye West and apparently became worried she was having a miscarriage on Tuesday after suffering from stomach pains
Holly Hunter is best screen mum
Holly Hunter got a boost on International Women’s Day with the news that her animated character Elastigirl topped a UK poll for best screen mum. The character, voiced by Hunter in the 2004 Disney Pixar film The Incredibles, was voted ahead of Harry Potter’s mum Lily in the survey.
Neighbours ‘will hit 30 years’
Australia’s longest running soap Neighbours continues to defy the hallowed ratings system on which television networks heavily base their programming decisions.