Django Unchained became Django Unscreened as Quentin Tarantino’s violent slave-revenge saga was pulled from Chinese theatres on its opening day, with the importer blaming an unspecified technical problem. The rare suspension order by China Film Group Corp.
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Review: Six60 at Wellington’s St James
Six60, St James Theatre, Saturday April 5 Reviewed by Sarah Catherall I had read the reviews that Six60 sound better live, and after Saturday night’s
‘A lasting legacy of people’s craziness’
Retired detective inspector Graham Bell is the host of Police Ten 7, screening 7.30pm, Thursdays on TV2. Here he answers the tough questions…
Another Bond shake-up on the cards
British director Sam Mendes will not direct the next James Bond movie, despite impressing critics and breaking box office records with Skyfall, the 23rd movie in the spy series. Speaking to Empire magazine, the Oscar-winning filmmaker said he would be focusing on his theatre projects for the foreseeable future.
Ballet star accused of Bolshoi attack
Russian police have detained one of the Bolshoi Ballet’s top dancers over an acid attack that nearly blinded the troupe’s artistic director and exposed fierce backstage rivalries at the famed theatre. Russia’s Interior Ministry said in a statement that Pavel Dmitrichenko, a Bolshoi soloist who is to dance in Sleeping Beauty this month, is suspected of plotting the attack that left Sergei Filin, 42, with severe burns after a masked assailant threw a jar of acid in his face
BOOKS: Versatile Monomaniac
Thomas Hardy lived to be 200 years old, or so it must have seemed to his literary competitors. He reached prominence in 1872 with his second novel, Under the Greenwood Tree, and was going strong half a century later.
Corliss on "Jersey Boys"
It’s just three nights after the premiere of the slick, vivacious new Broadway musical Jersey Boys: The Story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, but already the audience at the August Wilson Theatre on West 52nd Street dresses like the crowds you’d see in the fifth year of Mamma Mia! Tight-fitting tops, carefully pomaded hair, ostentatious gold neckwear …
The Mystery of Shakespeare’s Identity
Like alien autopsies and the second gunman, the belief that someone other than a glover’s son from Stratford wrote William Shakespeare’s plays is a conspiracy theory that refuses to die.
24 hours in Sydney: Cocktails, scenic walks … and sharks?
The arrival of autumn in Australia will be a welcome relief for international visitors emerging from a bleak winter in the northern hemisphere. Peak season may be winding up but with temperatures off their sticky summer highs it’s a great time to sample one of the country’s most recognizable cities.
Two brothers, no fears and $1 billion empire
Michael and Steven Roberts didn’t have two quarters to rub together a couple of decades ago. Now, the two African-American business leaders estimate their holdings — from hotels to TV stations — are worth $1 billion. One St.