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      Shawn Moodie
      June 11, 2017
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      September 29, 2017
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      May 19, 2017
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      Craig Moodie
      May 18, 2017
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      May 17, 2017
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What’s New On Netflix This August?

Shawn Moodie
July 25, 2017
Comedy, Entertainment, Film, Geek and Web, TV

13 Reasons Why – Our problem with suicide

Ashton Brown
May 8, 2017
Entertainment, Spotlight, TV, Watch

Game Of Rhones Returns To Auckland

Shawn Moodie
May 5, 2017
Culture, Entertainment, Food, Lifestyle, Night Life, TV

Gorillaz Are Creating A 10-Episode TV Show

Shawn Moodie
April 20, 2017
Electronic, Entertainment, Main, Music, TV

It’s Official – The Season Three Premiere Of ‘Rick And Morty’ Will Be An Hour Long

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March 31, 2017
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Glenn Howerton and Patton Oswalt To Star In Seth Myers New Comedy

Shawn Moodie
March 30, 2017
Comedy, Entertainment, TV
Patton Oswalt and It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia’s Glenn Howerton have signed on for a new comedy pilot written by Saturday Night Live's Mike O’Bri...

Netflix Now Lets You Skip Intro’s And Opening Credits

Shawn Moodie
March 30, 2017
Entertainment, Film, Geek and Web, TV
Not for the first time, the people asked — and Netflix answered. In part of a series of announcements about small but crucial changes to its platfo...

Why twenty one pilots’ Grammy win is super important

Yasmin Brown
February 13, 2017
Entertainment, Main, Music, TV
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I watch The Grammys every year without fail. I wish I didn't. I wish I had the willpower to stay far, far away from it, and the three and a half hours...

Stream These Films on Netflix and Hulu Before They Expire

Shawn Moodie
January 29, 2017
Entertainment, Film, Geek and Web, TV
It's Auckland Anniversary weekend for a third of the country and that means precious free time to sit on your couch or lie in bed and watch ... someth...

New Music: 2017 GRAMMY® Nominees Album

Yasmin Brown
January 11, 2017
Main, Music, TV
From January 20th, you'll be able to listen to music from some of the biggest nominees from this year's 59th GRAMMYs, all tied up in one tidy, talent ...

In Review: VNZMAs 2016

Yasmin Brown
November 20, 2016
Entertainment, Main, Music, TV, Uncharted
Being English, there are often times where I am left feeling quite alien in New Zealand. I still don't really know who The Wiggles are, and, despite i...

“A Series Of Unfortunate Events” Official Trailer

Marika Jackson
November 18, 2016
Entertainment, TV, Watch, Watch and Listen
The official trailer for Netflix's A Series of Unfortunate Events has been released! For the first time, we get to see Neil Patrick Harris as Count...

Seven Surprisingly Great New TV Shows

Shawn Moodie
November 2, 2016
Entertainment, TV
Are we currently experiencing the best Autumn/Fall TV season in years? Considering the reception that has greeted many of 2016’s new fall shows it ...

Watch The Trailer For Netflix’s “A Series Of Unfortunate Events”

Marika Jackson
October 5, 2016
Entertainment, TV
Netflix's upcoming series Lemony Snicket's A Series Of Unfortunate Events could be promoted as much as Disney/Pixar's Frozen and it would still live u...

The Get Down Premieres On Netflix Today

Shawn Moodie
August 12, 2016
Entertainment, TV, Watch
Netflix today debuts the most expensive television show ever made, The Get Down, Baz Luhrmann's drama charting the rise of hip-hop in New York in the ...

Suits Is Returning For A Seventh Season

Shawn Moodie
August 8, 2016
Entertainment, TV
Actors Gabriel Macht and Patrick J Adams are fixing their ties for another season of hit legal drama Suits. Season 7 of the hit American show will com...

Watch Rick And Morty Reenact The Funniest Court Transcript Of All Time

Shawn Moodie
August 7, 2016
Comedy, Entertainment, TV, Watch and Listen
The good people at Rick & Morty get a lot of comedic mileage out of Justin Roiland's ability to improvise some of the funniest - and most bizarre ...

The Russo Brothers Are Adapting Cult Classic ‘The Warriors’ For TV

Shawn Moodie
July 6, 2016
Entertainment, TV
Joe and Anthony Russo, the directors of the last two Captain America films, are taking a breather from the Marvel world to adapt cult-classic film The...

FLOP GEAR or How I watched the New Top Gear and learned to hate Chris Evans

Nigel Mckenzie-Ryan
June 16, 2016
Entertainment, TV
I loved Top Gear. It was the greatest magazine television show in the world. It’s brash, it’s silly and it’s brilliant. I don’t drive and I don’t care...
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In Review: Horace and Pete

Nigel Mckenzie-Ryan
May 12, 2016
Entertainment, TV
Louis CK is a goddamn madman. The comedian and creator of the Emmy nominated series ‘Louie’ is known for his innovative distribution methods. He relea...

Event: A Conversation On Making A Murderer

Shawn Moodie
April 28, 2016
Culture, Entertainment, Lifestyle, TV
The legal dream team - Dean Strang and Jerry Buting - defense attorneys for Steven Avery in the Netflix documentary series 'Making A Murderer' are com...

Life On The Road Trailer: Ricky Gervais’ David Brent is Back in The Office

Shawn Moodie
April 9, 2016
Entertainment, Film, TV, Watch, Watch and Listen
“He’s back. Did you miss me?” Yes he is, and though he does not seem to be any less painful to be around, yeah, we kind of missed him. Ricky Gervais...

10 Quintessential British Comedies

Oliver Smith
March 28, 2016
Comedy, Entertainment, TV
I feel it's a little cliche to call anything 'quintessentially British', it's one of those buzz words that the media like to use for some reasons, lik...

Gabriel Macht (Harvey Specter) Is Coming To New Zealand

Shawn Moodie
March 14, 2016
Entertainment, Fashion, Lifestyle, Night Life, TV
Fans of the hit TV show Suits will be pleased to hear that Gabriel Match, the actor who plays Harvey Specter, will soon be arriving on our fair shores...
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In Review: CitizenFour

Shawn Moodie
March 5, 2016
Entertainment, Film, TV
In late 2012 a mysterious figure known only as ‘Citizenfour’ contacted documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras with promises of important revelations abou...

Netflix wants to pay you to travel and take Instagram photos

Shawn Moodie
March 3, 2016
Entertainment, Geek and Web, Lifestyle, Travel, TV
Netflix has a cool new job opening—the only catch is you have to apply on Instagram. That’s because the job is to Instagram. So if you're constantl...
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