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Drug dealer gets 11 years for death of movie exec

A convicted drug dealer was sentenced to 11 years in prison in the death of a Hollywood studio executive whose remains were found buried in the California desert more than two years after he disappeared in 2012.

Wanaka skier leads all-female volcano expedition

Wanaka-based freeskier and Winter Olympian is set to climb and ski the nation's four skiable...

Wanaka skier leads all-female volcano expedition

A Wanaka freeskier is leading a team to the tops of the nation’s four skiable volcanoes for an expedition which would make them the first all-female group to do so.

Veteran actor Harry Dean Stanton dies

Harry Dean Stanton at a movie premiere in Hollywood in April 2012. Photo: Reuters

Veteran actor Harry Dean Stanton dies

Harry Dean Stanton, whose off-beat demeanour made him a favourite of directors seeking a character actor to add eccentricity to the screen, has died aged 91.

A confidant’s secrets

If Sir Winston Churchill is having a moment, so too is Queen Victoria.

Creation stories

Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

Rebel Wilson wins record defamation payout

Rebel Wilson wins record defamation payout

Rebel Wilson has just won the highest ever defamation payout in Australia's history from her legal battle with Bauer Media.

Disney delays 'Star Wars: Episode IX'

Disney pushed back "Star Wars: Episode IX" from its initial May 2019 release date after Abrams...

Disney delays 'Star Wars: Episode IX'

Walt Disney Co delayed the release of the ninth instalment of the "Star Wars" saga to December 2019 after announcing on the return of filmmaker J.J. Abrams to the franchise to write and direct the movie.

Clapton says 'not easy' watching his own doco

A documentary about the life of renowned guitarist Eric Clapton doesn't attempt to whitewash over the darker side of the hard-drinking musician's life, even though it's directed by a longtime friend.

A strong dose of realpolitik

Those hoping the United Nations might act, in a forthright and timely fashion, to head off disaster on the Korean Peninsula should not go to see this movie.

Rapids decline

This week, four Otago waterways were declared "lost rivers'' because of their degraded nature, so the issues raised in Seven Rivers Walking (Rialto) are of particular interest.

Battle of rivals on big screen

The film Borg McEnroe, which traces the fierce rivalry between tennis greats Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe on and off the court, has premiered in Swedish capital Stockholm.

Down on the farm

Josh O’Connor (right) and Alec Secareanu in God’s Own Country. Photo: supplied.

Down on the farm

Early starts, long hours, lots of sheep: Josh O’Connor tells Vanessa Thorpe of the hard graft behind the acclaimed film God’s Own Country.

Dunedin, in short

The variety of life in Dunedin will be on show during a special film screening at the Dunedin City Library next week.

Fonda and Redford together again

Jane Fonda wishes the sex scene in her new movie with Robert Redford lasted longer, she said at the Venice film festival, where both received lifetime achievement awards.

Rockin’ the cliches

Something of a breakout hit at this year’s Sundance festival, with reported standing ovations and large amounts of kudos bestowed on Aussie first-timer Danielle MacDonald, Patti Cake$ is...

Popping chemistry

When done right, action movies built around chalk-and-cheese protagonists are a box office bonanza.

All-female 'Lord of the Flies' misses the point - critics

Plans for an all-female movie of William Golding's young adult classic novel "Lord of the Flies" were slammed for missing the point of the dark and deadly tale of bullying among teenage boys stranded on a desert island.

Arsonists attack building used by Russian director

Uchitel's forthcoming film, called Matilda, is about a reputed love affair between Tsar Nicholas II and a ballerina. Photo: Twitter

Arsonists attack building used by Russian director

Attackers set fire to a building used by a Russian director whose film about the last czar's romance with a ballerina has been condemned by religious conservatives.

Caught between the lines

One thing I have noticed in all my years of writing about films is that most titles have only a fleeting relationship to the film they are attached to.

Beguiling indeed

A female-centric reinterpretation of the 1971 Clint Eastwood/Don Siegel psychosexual Civil War oddity, Sofia Coppola's poetic version of 'A Painted Devil' is both a marvellously empathetic and subtly humorous dig at the male species.

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