GIULIA RHODES meets the Italian police chief turned best-selling novelist whose fictional police hero is involved with fighting the mafia, just like he w...
Sunday, 1 March 2015
Tom Kitching, Of Montreal, The Shires, Carole King: Album reviews
WITH his insistent, attacking technique and a brilliant ear for arrangement, Kitching has brought an adventurous, almost indie sensibility to English folk fiddle play...
The Overtones 'We’ve gone from doo wop to heartbreak’
THE most stylish band in pop return with an album of soul classics. Clair Woodward meets the band rejected by The X Factor who bounced back to succ...
Banished actress MyAnna Buring: 'I was so excited to be part of this series'
THE 35-year-old is a familiar face to period drama fans, appearing in both Downton Abbey and Ripper Street. Now she is being transported down under for a Jimmy McGovern drama about convicts sent to Austra...
TV round-up: Broadchurch finale, Wolf Hall and The Brit Awards
SHOULD there be a better hour of period drama this year than the last episode of Wolf Hall then I will eat my breeches. This near-perfect costume series concluded its six-part season with a chilling final 10 minutes that made the Broadchurch finale look as menacing as Dora The Explor...
The joy of dance Class Concert by Mikhailovsky Ballet Review
MICHAEL “Misha” Messerer is sending seismic tremors through St Petersburg, birth place of the Russian Revolution. After six years with the Mikhailovsky Ballet of which he is now director, the neighbouring Maryiinsky company, dubbed the cradle of classical ballet, is nervously looking to its laure...
Will Smith's semi-return: Focus review and trailer
WILL SMITH makes a semi-return to form in Focus after dreary sci-fi About Ea...
A cleverly directed horror movie: It Follows Review and trailer
IT FOLLOWS is a spare, unsettling horror movie which doesn’t quite convert its nightmarish atmosphere into genuine sca...
A guilty pleasure: The Boy Next Door Review and trailer
JUST how desirable is Jennifer Lopez? Insanely so according to The Boy Next Door, a daft B-movie in which her high school teacher/yummy mummy, Claire, is stalked Fatal Attraction-style by a buff 19-year old, Noah after succumbing to one night of pass...
The genius of Sinead
A couple of topics are off bounds when interviewing Sinead O'Connor - Miley Cyrus to name just one. And fair call. Why anyone would want to waste precious moments with the Irish singer reliving the so-called "social media stoush"...
Saturday, 28 February 2015
Turkish author Yasar Kemal dead at 91
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) " Turkey's state-run news agency says Yasar Kemal, one of Turkey's best-known novelists with worldwide readership, has died. He was 91.The Anadolu Agency says Kemal died Saturday at a hospital in Istanbul.Kemal...
No escape from reality: More TV goodies this year
Couch potatoes face reality TV overload, with more than 250 primetime hours hitting our screens this year.Kiwis are already being fed a steady diet, with Our First Home and The X Factor NZ going head-to-head three nights a week....
Beauties vie for heart of Art
A yoga teacher who shared the catwalk with supermodel Elle Macpherson is one of 21 Kiwi beauties who will fight for the heart of Art Green on The Bachelor NZ .Chrystal Chenery is from Christchurch and describes herself as a yoga...
Lorde's sis raising funds for volunteer programme
India Yelich-O'Connor wants to follow in her Grammy-winning sister's globe-trotting footsteps - and wants you to help pay her way.Lorde's 16-year-old sister is tapping into her 30,000-plus followers on social media to...
Kerre McIvor: TV show's exploitation of victim's death inexcusable
The producers of X Factor NZ must have thought they'd struck gold when 29-year-old Shae Brider turned up to audition. Not because he's a musical genius. As we should realise by now, reality shows are about drama and sensationalism,...
Final voyage for space crusader
Actor Leonard Nimoy didn't just leave a lasting impression on the science-fiction world, he also left his mark on science itself.Seti Research astronomer Seth Shostak, who researches the possibility of extraterrestrial life, recalled...
Kamo celebrates 'amazing adventure'
A decade-long "amazing, fun adventure" has culminated in wedded bliss for sunday presenter Miriama Kamo and her longtime beau Mike Dreaver.The couple, parents to 3-year-old daughter Te Rerehua, married last weekend on a patch of...
The colourful debate
It's the dress that threatened to break the internet - and apparently divided the human race into two warring factions; black/blue versus white/gold.Experts say there appears to be no right answer, regardless of the colour of the...
An enthralling doco for the binge generation
Filmmaker Andrew Jarecki says The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst , his story of a New Yorker with privilege who's free despite suspicions of his involvement in three murders, may be the first documentary created for binge...
Bill Oddie admits 'I tried to kill myself twice' after being axed from BBC's Springwatch
BILL ODDIE has confessed that he tried to take his own life after losing his job back in 20...
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