Category Archives: Movies and Entertainment

Matching her boyfriend and becoming the third straight Samoan winner was icing on the cake for Isabella Moore at the Lexus Song Quest last night. The 23-year-old soprano from West Auckland took out the competition of New Zealand’s best young opera singers, two years after her partner Amitai Pati won the award.

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies launched a full-scale assault on Comic-Con. The cast and crew from the final installment of The Hobbit trilogy showed off the first trailer for the fantasy film at the pop-culture convention, as well as a blooper reel from both The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit movies.

“Lion Man” Craig Busch has roared back onto TV screens around the world. Busch’s new reality TV series, The Lion Man: African Safari, is being beamed into an audience of tens of millions in India, South Africa and parts of Europe on the Discovery Channel network’s Animal Planet

You have reviewers saying Mutineers is your best album since 1998 multi-platinum seller White Ladder. Were you intimidated by your own success Unquestionably that is true but it’s a bit more complicated than that

Kanye West fans, rejoice: the self-proclaimed rap megastar is heading to New Zealand later this year. The 21-time Grammy Award winner, who is bringing his YEEZUS tour to Australia for a five-city run in September, was strongly rumoured to be adding a New Zealand concert date, an industry source told the Sunday Star Times.

Shihad will donate their profit-share from New Zealand’s first ever pay-per-view music gig to the Christchurch Earthquake Recovery fund. The one-off September 12 concert at Christchurch’s CBS Arena will showcase the veteran band’s ninth album, FVEY, with the 4000 tickets given away: but in a New Zealand first, television viewers will be asked to pay $19.95 to tune in live on TV channel Sky Arena.

REVIEW: Known in its native France by far less depressing sounding Time for Adventure, this romantic-drama is a strange cross between Le Weekend and Before Sunset. Forty-three-year-old struggling actress Alix (Coco Before Chanel’s Emmanuelle Devos) is travelling from Calais back to her native Paris when her eye catches that of sad-looking English literature professor Doug (Gabriel Byrne)

Like father, like son – two handsome men. On the left, Robert De Niro: one of the greatest actors of his generation, his career more recently tarnished by his perplexing decision to appear in all sorts of rubbish.

“IT WAS 1995 and I had just turned seven. I started saving my pocket money religiously to make my first ever purchase.