Come Back Anytime: One of the sweetest and most enjoyable films of the year
Come Back Anytime (E, 81 mins) Directed by John Daschbach ***** Look, I know the New Zealand International Film Festival is around in Wellington and everywhere...
Live: Government train-while-working programme reaches 5000 people
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is in Auckland to celebrate an on-the-job training programme surpassing its targets. The Mana in Mahi programme, aimed at getting beneficiaries connected...
Frustration at continued ban of UK ex-pats from donating blood
Warwick Smith/Stuff Dion Martin donates plasma at the Blood Donor Centre at Palmerston North Hospital in 2017. (File image) Healthy and willing blood donors are frustrated...
Bullet Train: Brilliant cast and top stunt co-ordination save cartoonish caper
Bullet Train (R16, 126 mins) Directed by David Leitch ***½ Here’s an idea. Close your eyes and try to imagine what would happen if you took...
Melanie Lynskey says even when ‘starving herself’ she was too heavy for Hollywood
Actress Melanie Lynskey has clarified comments in a recent interview in which she recalls being told she was “not beautiful” on the set of Coyote Ugly....
Homicide investigation launched after death of man in New Plymouth
VANESSA LAURIE/Stuff A property in South Rd has been identified as a place of interest in a New Plymouth homicide investigation launched on Thursday. New Plymouth...
Corrections does U-turn after allowing teenaged rapist to attend university
Corrections allowed a convicted rapist to attend university, despite him serving a sentence of home detention. But only a week later following calls from a survivor...
Warner Bros. axes $90 million ‘Batgirl’ movie that had been planned for HBO Max
LOS ANGELES — Warner Bros. has scrapped plans to release a nearly finished “Batgirl” movie that was planned for the streaming service HBO Max, according to...
Calgary featherweight (Mean) Hakeem Dawodu lands fight on high-profile UFC 279 card
Calgary featherweight (Mean) Hakeem Dawodu will face American Julian (Juicy J) Erosa on the undercard of UFC 279 next month in Las Vegas. The high-profile main...
Correctional officers exonerated in St. John’s, N.L., inmate death suing government
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. – Ten correctional officers cleared by a provincial court judge in the death of an inmate at a St. John’s, N.L., jail are...