Entertainment
Extra stop for UB40 on way to Rarotonga
Saturday 12 January 2019 | Published in Entertainment
UB40 featuring Ali Campbell and Astro, are making an additional stop on this summer’s Real Labour of Love 40th Anniversary Tour to Rarotonga, New Zealand and Australia
UB40 concert an exciting first
Saturday 5 January 2019 | Published in Entertainment
Rarotonga is gearing up this month for one of the most exciting musical events ever to take place on the island.
Aquaman a 'must-sea' spectacle
Saturday 22 December 2018 | Published in Entertainment
Aquaman is a glorious kitchen-sink superhero spectacular. It is absurd and larger-than-life entertainment that offers just enough character and nuance to be more than empty spectacle.
A 'cracker' this movie definitely isn't
Saturday 3 November 2018 | Published in Entertainment
Slow torture for kids and grownups alike, The Nutcracker and the Four Realms gives a bad name to the very concept of family entertainment.
Pace never flags in action thriller
Saturday 27 October 2018 | Published in Entertainment
Connoisseurs of cheesy, gung-ho, boys’ own action films will find plenty to relish in Hunter Killer. This is a curiously old-fashioned affair that feels as if it could have been made in the 1950s, or even earlier, with John Wayne or Gary Cooper instead of Gerard Butler in the lead role.
A Star is Born a heart-warming journey
Monday 22 October 2018 | Written by Rashneel Kumar | Published in Entertainment
There was silence when the post credits for the movie A Star is Born started rolling on the screen.
Goosebumps 2 lacks original's bite
Saturday 13 October 2018 | Published in Entertainment
I spend an unconscionable amount of time wondering about the right age at which to introduce my child to horror movies.
Tom Hardy is one good reason to see Venom
Saturday 6 October 2018 | Published in Entertainment
In the grand scheme of all movies ever made—including, say, FW Murnau’s exquisite 1927 silent film Sunrise and the totally useless 2015 Entourage movie — the line between a super-awesome Marvel movie and a bad one is cellophane-thin.
Night School fails the grade
Monday 1 October 2018 | Published in Entertainment
Only a fool would say that Kevin Hart and Tiffany Haddish aren’t hilarious. But only a dumbass would argue that their new comedy, Night School, isn’t the worst kind of lazy, laughless, paycheque-begging twaddle. What is it with stars who think that their responsibility to audiences stops at showing up?
Killings galore in 'nun-pocalypse'
Saturday 8 September 2018 | Published in Entertainment
The Nun is the latest installment in the series we apparently have to call “The Conjuring universe”.
Wackiest true story to become a movie
Monday 27 August 2018 | Published in Entertainment
WHEN movies are based on true stories, they tend to be about some heroic act or great personal struggle.
Jason Statham saves the day
Saturday 18 August 2018 | Published in Entertainment
Jack Morris (Rainn Wilson) is ready to see a return on his investment.
No winner in Washington's first replay
Saturday 11 August 2018 | Published in Entertainment
Robert McCall (Denzel Washington) is enjoying being dead – at least in the eyes of his former employers at the CIA.
Mission Impossible action-packed
Saturday 4 August 2018 | Written by Rashneel Kumar | Published in Entertainment
I think my (hard) day’s labour at work on Thursday must have taken a toll on me.
Gig review: Koi Boys pitch perfect at Rehab
Monday 30 July 2018 | Published in Entertainment
The last time I saw The Koi Boys live (so to speak) I was in an audience of two and they only performed one song – a pitch-perfect rendition of doo-wop favourite “Sh-Boom”, the same song that catapulted them to stardom during the blind audition round of reality singing show The Voice Australia.
Mamma Mia! It's actually better...
Saturday 28 July 2018 | Published in Entertainment
It’s been 10 years to the month since Mamma Mia! set the world’s box offices on fire with an unlikely pastiche of 30-year-old ditties being karaoked on a Greek island floating somewhere near London’s Pinewood studios – and now here we go again.
Skyscraper dumb but fabulous fun
Tuesday 24 July 2018 | Published in Entertainment
It is a scandal that there is no Oscar or Bafta or Golden Globe for Best Dumb Fun.
Hotel Transylvania 3 a hit with kids
Saturday 14 July 2018 | Published in Entertainment
Let’s get one thing straight right from the get-go: Hotel Transylvania 3 is most definitely a kids’ film.
Ant-Man and the Wasp impresses
Saturday 7 July 2018 | Published in Entertainment
He’s tiny, now he’s big, now he’s normal-sized, he’s tiny again, now he’s REALLY REALLY BIG!
Show Dogs a bit 'ruff' around the edges
Saturday 30 June 2018 | Published in Entertainment
Show Dogs has one function and one alone. It’s children’s entertainment in which parents should feel comfortable falling asleep, confident that this assembly-line action-comedy about a police Rottweiler, and his trainer, going undercover at a dog show is going to supply 92 minutes of innocuous distraction.
