Daily English Show #11 – Wellington To Blenheim (Video)
December 25, 2011 – 7:13 am | 29 Comments

The Daily English Show, an occasional video series, has hit the road traveling through New Zealand in a United Campervan. Today they travel to the beehive (Parliament), Lyall Bay (check out Maranui Cafe review) then …

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Kiwi Anna Paquin Digs Teeth into Vampire Role (Video)
March 19, 2009 – 8:21 am | 69 Comments

Kiwi Academy Award Winner Anna Paquin has hit the headlines with her character Sookie Stackhouse in the HBO series True Blood. True blood is another masterpiece from Six Feet Under writer Alan Ball.
Stuff NZ describes …

Lana Hits the Streets with Sheep Eye Delicacy (Video)
March 18, 2009 – 7:00 am | 6 Comments

Lana hits the streets of downtown Wellington with $50 for anyone who will eat sheep eyes.

Wildfoods Festival – Hokitika New Zealand (Video)
March 17, 2009 – 8:47 pm | 2 Comments

Adventurous souls flocked to Hokitika over the weekend for the annual Wildfoods Festival in Hokitika is is on the west coast of the Sourth Island. Delicacies on offer included huhu grubs, wasp larvae icecream, cucumber …

Peter Jackson And Spielberg Riff on Tintin’s 80th Birthday (Video)
March 17, 2009 – 7:52 am | 2 Comments

Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg riff on the Festival d’angouleme, which is a french comic book festival, here is a sample:
spielberg : « bonjour ! bienvenue au Festival d’angoulême. Je suis steven spielberg, avec un …

Peter Jackson’s Lovely Bones Tipped for Oscar Nomination
March 16, 2009 – 12:36 pm | One Comment

“Lovely Bones”, the story of a young girl who has been murdered and watches over her family – and her killer – from heaven has been tipped for a nomination this year in the Academy …

Kiwi Linking Goodness
March 16, 2009 – 6:24 am | No Comment

Stewart Island: Island kiwis captivating for tourists
New Zealand Herald – New Zealand
Sunrise at Halfmoon Bay – it may be better to wait until later in the day to spot a kiwi. Great travel story….
Kiwi …

TV Review: The Flight of the Conchords – HBO Does It Again
March 15, 2009 – 7:30 am | No Comment

There is something about HBO and its ability to deliver compelling, funny, serious, and dramatic television that simply outpaces all others. The channel that has already given us years of The Sopranos and left us …

Weta Workshop Podcast Episode 4
March 14, 2009 – 7:11 pm | One Comment

There is a new WetaCast available today (Click on link to get to subscription). Magnus and Daniel are back, with New Website, report with Matt Appleton and Emily-Jane Sturrock from RingCon 2008 in Bonn and …

Wayne Brady Headlines NZ Comedy Festival
March 13, 2009 – 7:42 pm | 12 Comments

Emmy Award Winning US Comedian Wayne Brady is all set to turn down under upside down at this years Kiwi Comedy Festival. The show which gets underway from May 1st has once again managed to …

LOTR’s Haldir in New Comedy (Video)
March 10, 2009 – 7:46 am | 15 Comments

Lord of the Rings’ actor Craig Parker stars in a new series called Diplomatic Immunity on Television New Zealand.
Parker was born in Suva, Fiji. He is most famous for his role as Haldir of Lórien …

Flight of the Conchords’ Murray Wants to be 007
March 9, 2009 – 2:43 pm | 83 Comments

New Zealand comic Rhys Darby interview on aussie TV show ROVE (with Rove McManus).
New Zealand stand-up comic, Rhys has gained fans around the world as Murray the Manager in Flight of the Conchords and Jim …

Kiwi Phil’s Amazing Race Diary: Sibera
March 8, 2009 – 8:16 am | 9 Comments

Kiwi Phil is in Sibera on a Amazing Race, go figure.

The Flight of the Conchords – HBO Does It Again
March 7, 2009 – 5:59 pm | One Comment

TV Review: The Flight of the Conchords – HBO Does It Again
HBO has outdone themselves again with season two of the Flight of the Conchords.
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Murray From Flight of the Conchords in Pirate Movie (Video)
March 5, 2009 – 8:00 am | 131 Comments

Our kiwi friend Rhy Darby AKA Murray from Flight of the Conchords stars with Philip Seymour Hoffman in The Boat That Rocked.
It’s about a band of rogue DJs that captivated Britain, playing the music …