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Roth and roll
Known for playing criminals and low-lifes, Tim Roth is a caring dad in his latest film, writes Steve Kilgallon.
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TV Review: Hidden
How many more addictive, intelligent television thrillers can decently be fitted into a week? One more it turns out.
A failure of a political thriller
The Company You Keep turns a thrilling premise into a contrived and depressing meander through ageing self-righteousness.
Mourning for a moustache
Sam Neill talks to Janie Smith about his first Kiwi drama series and the starring role played by his moustache.
Drama compelling to the end
Jane Campion's Top of the Lake, set in Queenstown, was about the most demanding watch on television for a long time.
New cast, same philosophy
Go Girls is back, but not as you remember it. The popular TV2 dramedy returns to our screens tonight but with an all-new cast.
Top of the lake
The only bum note so far in Jane Campion's Top of the Lake has been the lousy accent of American actress Elisabeth Moss.
Shorty star on secrets, lies
Kerry-Lee Dewing says she can understand what is motivating her wayward small screen character.
Film review: Barbara
Barbara, set in East Germany, is a terrific film, full of well-drawn characters orbiting each other in unexpected ways.
Quinn's mighty detective
Aidan Quinn tells how a role in Sherlock Holmes series Elementary brought back childhood memories.
Modern-day purgatory returns
Mad Men's back, and with it comes a bittersweet, cynical kind of existential grimness.
The TV mini-series
New Zealand-made television is proving shorter is often better when it comes to TV series.
What to expect
We have five copies of the book What to Expect the Second Year by Heidi Murkoff to giveaway.
The reality TV circus
Reality television's mock-empathetic focus on the sad, ill and extreme is somehow less honest than exploitative old circuses.
Confidently afraid
Meet Elisabeth Moss: actor, Scientologist, thinking man's crumpet.
Husbands and lives
From Underbelly to House Husbands, Aussie TV star Gyton Grantley is enjoying exploring human nature.
Gypsy Girls back for more
Thelma's Gypsy Girls, TV One, last night, could bear the alternative title, A Woman Needlessly Picks at the Fabric of Her Success.
Film review: Liberal Arts
Think of it as a very pleasant lit romcom for anyone who ever gave up on reading David Foster Wallace.
Film review: Great Expectations
Getting a decent sized novel faithfully on screen is almost always more than any one film can ever hope to do.
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I Give It A Year
The co-creator of Borat and Ali G has turns his hand to romantic comedy, with I Give It A Year, a look at the trials and tribulations of a couple during their first year of marriage.
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