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Campion honoured in Cannes
Another prestigious honour at the Cannes Film Festival has added further weight to Jane Campion’s legendary status in cinema. But the fact there aren’t more female directors at the top still irks the Australian-based, New Zealand-born film maker.
Quiz and win with Daft Punk
After what has been one of the smartest marketing campaigns in pop music, the day of Daft Punk’s album launch is finally here. To celebrate the release of the French duo’s album Random Access Memory, we are offering you the chance to win one of five stylish 3D masks and your copy of the album
World’s End to premiere in NZ
New Zealand audiences will get first shot at seeing the latest movie from the team behind Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead. Director Edgar Wright has announced via Twitter that his latest film, The World’s End, starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, will premiere in New Zealand on July 18.
Blueray review: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey 3D
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey 3D (Warner Brothers, M) Director: Peter Jackson Starring: Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage ‘All good stories deserve embellishment,” Gandalf the Grey tells Bilbo Baggins in the opening scenes of Sir Peter Jackson’s first movie based on The Hobbit. Actor Sir Ian McKellen, who plays the lovable wizard, is almost winking at the audience as he delivers the line, no doubt referring to the amount of embellishment The Hobbit book had to undergo to turn it into a trio of screenplays
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Keira Knightley marries rocker
Keira Knightley is married. The 28-year-old actress and her musician partner James Righton tied the knot at the town hall in Mazan, which is 20 kilometres from Marseilles, France.
Lindsay Lohan goes AWOL
Lindsay Lohan’s whereabouts were unknown hours after her attorney told a judge that the troubled actress had checked into a rehab facility only to later learn that the starlet apparently never checked in for treatment. Lohan’s lawyer and publicist did not return messages immediately seeking comment about the actress’ decision to quickly leave a rehab facility that a state official said is not licensed to perform the type of restrictive in-patient treatment a judge sentenced her to undergo
Auckland gets own Monopoly
No more living in the shadow of London – Auckland is passing go and collecting it’s very own version of Monopoly. The Auckland edition of the iconic board game was launched today at the Viaduct, on the city’s waterfront
Tonto takes centre-stage
To watch a snippet of The Lone Ranger is to empathise with the stoic looks of concern its star, Johnny Depp, deadpans throughout the action film. A white man playing Tonto, one of the most famous American Indian stereotypes of all time, might work.