Piranha 3DD!
O.M.G!
Could this be an even greater splatter/titties/gore/cheeseball fest than the first one??… [More...]
NZ International Film Festival dates announced + 3 titles
The dates for this years NZ International Film Festival have been announced this morning.… [More...]
First announcement for NZ Film Festival made – KLOWN
Ant Timpson made the first announcement for this years NZ International Film Festival – KLOWN
In what critics are hailing as “the funniest movie of the year!” (IFC), KLOWN follows two wildly inappropriate friends — played by celebrated international comedians Frank Hvam and Casper Christensen — as they run amok through the Danish countryside plowing through endless awkward confrontations and unspeakable debaucheries. Hopelessly wrongheaded Frank “kidnaps” the 12-year-old nephew of his pregnant girlfriend in an eager attempt to prove his… [More...]
HBO’s new comedy Girls
The new HBO comedy Girls (created by Lena Dunham (Tiny Furniture)) just started screening in the States (April 15th) has just been renewed for a second season despite modest ratings so far. But watching the trailer for it (below) it looks totally hilarious. Check it out!… [More...]
The Most Fun You Can Have Dying
For many people (I am about to alienate New Zealand’s fourth largest urban centre) being told that you only had a matter of months to live would come as a sweet relief if you lived in Hamilton. But lead character Michael, played charmingly by Matt Whelan (Go Girls, My Wedding and Other Secrets) in writer/director Kirstin Marcon’s feature debut The Most Fun You Can Have Dying takes it next level as he steals the money raised by the community for… [More...]
Brand new PROMETHEUS movie trailer released
Prometheus is set about thirty years prior to Ridley Scott’s Alien and follows the crew of the spaceship Prometheus in the late 21st century, as they explore an advanced alien civilization in search of the origins of humanity.
Check this out – I saw it on the weekend at Gold Class in 3D when I went to see (the awesome fun that was) The Avengers – the brand new trailer….
In Cinemas 7 June 2012. So. Freaking. Excited.… [More...]
FRINGE returns for a fifth and final season
FOX has picked up FRINGE for a fifth and final 13-episode season, it was announced today by Kevin Reilly, President of Entertainment, Fox Broadcasting Company.
“FRINGE is a remarkably creative series that has set the bar as one of television’s most imaginative dramas. Bringing it back for a final 13 allows us to provide the climactic conclusion that its passionate and loyal fans deserve,” said Reilly “The amazing work the producers, writers and the incredibly talented cast and crew have… [More...]
Celebrity Juice hits NZ TV (on new Freeview Channel CHOICE)
So CHOICE TV launches this weekend on Freeview Channel 12 and each day of the week is dedicated to a different aspect of stuff and life and shit.
(That wasn’t how they put it in the press release)*
Cheese on Toast had a quick look at their TV Guide on their website and then got distracted by watching Celebrity Juice on Youtube – which screens on Choice on Saturday at 10pm.
Once described as “Shooting Stars on crack”, Celebrity Juice… [More...]
Super City gets green light for US
The TV3 series, Super City, starring Madeline Sami, directed by Taika Waititi has been picked up by the US ABC network.… [More...]
Antics Roadshow
Banksy said of this TV special he made “‘Basically I just thought it was a good name for a TV programme and I’ve been working back from there.”… [More...]
James Cameron’s The FInal Word (on Titanic) screens tonight on Sky’s National Geographic
Everyone’s jumping on board (excuse the reverse-pun) the whole Titanic sank 100 years ago this month buzz – and none more so than James Cameron who obviously, with the release of the 3D version of his DiCaprio / Winslet love-story blockbuster from 1997 – has a cash-cow to milk as much as possible from it’s murky depths.… [More...]
GAME OF THRONES – in 16bit!
Need to catch up with Season One of Game of Thrones before you start the new season? How awesome is this….
More cool shizzles at www.doctoroctoroc.com… [More...]
Shihad doco film released
You may have already heard that there was a Shihad documentary film in the works – well it’s finished and ready for release.… [More...]
New Prometheus trailer
The second trailer for Director Ridley Scott’s upcoming sci-fi thriller, Prometheus, set in the same universe as the Alien series, something of a prequel to his 1979 Alien, is online…… [More...]
New monthly short film festival hits Kingsland
A new monthly film night is coming to Kingsland – Every third Wednesday of the month Kingsland’s Nectar Bar plays host to Takes: Short Films From Around the Globe.… [More...]
Temple Grandin
Claire Daines plays the title role in this 2010 HBO biopic directed by Mick Jackon ( Chattahoochee, LA Story, The Body Guard). Daines had seemingly disappeared until her recent and most excellent portrayal of Carrie Mathison in Homeland – but she totally nailed this performance with compassion and guts a year prior.
Temple Grandin is a person with high functioning autistism and she is doctor of animal science and professor at Colorado State University, bestselling author, and consultant to the… [More...]
PORTLANDIA starts on NZ TV tonight!
Portlandia starring Saturday Night Live’s Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein (ex-Sleater-Kinney and current lead guitarist/singer for Wild Flag) starts screening on NZ TV tonight on TV3 at 10pm (which seems, to my mind, a ridiculous time-slot given it’s target demographic are probably out on a Friday night *sigh*)
But anyway…… [More...]
Watch Trailer for Season 7 of Dr Who
Season seven of BBC’s Dr Who is due to start in the northern hemisphere’s Autumn and screen into 2013. The 14 episode season will see the departure of Amy and Rory Pond and the introduction of a new companion (character name yet to be announced) played by Jenna-Louse Coleman (pictured below), and promises to be “enormous” and “climatic” in its 50 anniversary year.
Watch the trailer here… [More...]
Must Love Cats
All new episodes of Must Love Cats start on Sky’s Animal Planet on Monday 2 April (10.30pm).
Anyone who knows me probably knows that I have a cat and I talk to her like she’s people; so, naturally I am going to love this show.
Presented by a slightly camp John Fulton who insists on singing a particularly shitty song at every opportunity – I watched the first episode on a screener supplied by Sky this week which features a… [More...]
World Cinema Showcase
World Cinema Showcase is coming – Auckland 29 Mar – 11 April / Wellington 5-22 April / Dunedin 19 Apr – 2 May / Christchurch 26 Apr – 9 May
For teh full list of films screening – with screening schedule info etc etc head over to www.worldcinemashowcase.co.nz
Making it’s worldwide premiere at the festival will be Mental Notes – Jim Marbrook’s gently affirmative documentary which recalls the bad old days of mental health care in New Zealand with dismay,… [More...]
MELANCHOLIA comes to DVD and Blu-Ray
The acclaimed Lars von Trier masterpiece Melancholia is coming to DVD and Blue-ray on 26 April via those nut-bags Madmen Entertainment!
Melancholia was the closing film in last years International Film Festival – and blew audiences away.
Interesting factoid : New Zealand was the highest grossing box office territory per head of capita for the film.
Watch the trailer here…
“Justine (Kirsten Dunst, SPIDER-MAN) and Michael (TRUE BLOOD’s Alexander Skarsgård) are celebrating their marriage at a sumptuous party in the… [More...]
Prometheus Trailer released
The brand new international Prometheus Trailer has been released.
Prometheus opens in Cinemas June 7
“Ridley Scott, director of “Alien” and “Blade Runner,” returns to the genre he helped define. With PROMETHEUS, he creates a groundbreaking mythology, in which a team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a thrilling journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human… [More...]
Game Change
I dare say that politically-right leaning viewers might claim that the film is heavily biased. It is guilty, perhaps, of being so realistic in this age of journo-tainment, that it’s easy to forget that you are not watching a documentary and that Julianne Moore is not actually the hockey-mum-slash-gobsmackingly-stupid Sarah Palin. HBO’s Game Change which is based on one third of the book by political journalists John Heilemann and Mark Halperin about the 2008 United States presidential election; which has,… [More...]
Margin Call trailer
Margin Call opens in NZ cinemas May 10th; it follows the key people at an investment bank, over a 24-hour period, during the early stages of the financial crisis.
Starring Kevin Spacey, Jeremy Irons, Zachary Quinto, Stanley Tucci and more
Nominated for best Original Screenplay at 2012 Academy Awards… [More...]
BBC Synth Britannia
OMG – this looks amazing… I’m watching it as I am posting it – thanks to Simon Grigg who posted it on his excellent Opinionated Diner website.
WATCH THE WHOLE DOCO HERE
1hr 28min
FUN FACT : Phil Oakey told the Sunday Sun that he has a Prince Albert piercing. Which he claimed hurt less than having his ear pierced.… [More...]
Watch JACK WHITE on Saturday Night Live
Jack White performed two songs from his forthcoming debut solo album Bluderbuss on Saturday Night Love on the weekend. For Love Interuption he was backed by an all-female band; and for Sixteen Saltlines he was back by an all-male band.
Watch the performances here:… [More...]
Game of Thrones screens on NZ TV with special advance preview
Just days ago, we posted the new trailer for Season 2 of Game of Thrones. And, with the news that “Winter is coming” have you noticed there actually has been a cold front? And I am convinced it was darker earlier last night. Mother Nature reads Cheese on Toast. Science Fact.… [More...]
Game of Thrones Season 2 “Power and Grace” Trailer
Season 2 of Game of Throne screens in the US of America on Sunday 1st April.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X66PDW1Mjf8… [More...]
10 O’Clock Live is back!
The incredibly awesome 10 O’Clock Live is back on UK screens. It’s a live satirical news show that’s both hilarious and smart and the stuff that I dream would screen in New Zealand. It’s presented by Charlie Brooker, Jimmy Carr, Lauren Laverne and David Mitchell.
Episode one is on You Tube (until someone take’s it down presumably) so watch it now – 42 minutes well spent; I assure you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7RM2u0OvJg… [More...]
