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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Review: Dr Who: Hide

Review Doctor Who: Hide Clara Oswald turns Shaggy to Scooby Who himself as the pair investigate a haunting in a Scottish mansion in 1974. Due to some accident with wibbly wobbly timey wimey I didn’t see an email from Wellington screenwriter Neil Cross, sent about 7.45pm about last night’s episode, until 9.28pm when I had just started watching the show an hour after it had started.

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Lake folk wallow in dodgy business up to their necks

The only bum note so far in Jane Campion’s Top of the Lake (UKTV, Monday) has been the lousy accent of American actress Elisabeth Moss. I’m sure there would have been a swarm of local actresses who could have done a far better job of playing Kiwi detective Robin Griffin – for instance, Robyn Malcolm, who is also in the mix playing an American

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Police: Hospital employee swiped shots, spread hepatitis C

A former hospital employee may have exposed hundreds, or even thousands, of surgical patients to hepatitis C after taking their fentanyl injections and replacing them with used syringes filled with saline solution, authorities say. Kristen Diane Parker, who worked at Rose Medical Center in Denver, has admitted to secretly injecting herself in a bathroom and using unclean syringes as replacements for patients, investigators said

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