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Friends (TV2, 6.30, R) Chandler finds the perfect engagement ring and loses it; Rachel gets her wish for Paul to reveal his emotions, but seems to have opened the flood gates. Bruce Willis guest stars. Shortland Street (TV2, 7.00) Bella is horrified at Nicole’s streaking; TK struggles to accept Sarah’s decision; Lana goes a step too far. […]

American Pie – The Wedding: Sky Movies Greats, 8.30pm Saturday The last of the theatrical releases before the franchise descended into direct-to-DVD drudgery reunites half of the gang for Jim and Michelle’s nuptials. Most critics kissed off this bride and groom romp, although Variety recommended it as a “gross-out comedy masterpiece” and Premiere thought it […]

The Men Who Stare at Goats: Sky Movies, 8.30pm Saturday. Director Grant Heslov, who wrote Good Night, and Good Luck, reunites with George Clooney for this military satire about a top-secret unit of psychic “warrior monks” who try to help “the first superpower to develop superpowers”. It uses a real-life ‘70s New Age forerunner of […]

Bruce Willis fans can enjoy a mini-bonanza of his movies in HD next month on Sky Movies Greats. Screening for the first time in 1080i will be his underrated action-thriller, Hostage (January 15), the Whole Nine Yards sequel, The Whole Ten Yards (January 22), and the lurid graphic novel sensation, Sin City (January 29). George […]

Next month Universal and Paramount will discount a range of Blu-ray action titles to tie in with the theatrical release of The Expendables. Directed by Sylvester Stallone, it reunites the Rambo hero with ’80s beefcake icons Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Dolph Lundgren, and teams them with Mickey Rourke, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Steve Austin […]

Independence Day: TV3, 8.30pm Saturday. About an alien invasion of Earth, its incidence of corny melodrama, lazy stereotypes, gargantuan plot holes and gung-ho patriotism is as high as the body count. Yet they’re part of the fun of watching what is unabashedly a B-grade ’50s doomsday movie dressed up in the blockbuster trappings of a […]

Yippie-ki-yay! Bruce Willis die-hards will delight in not only their hero’s Die Hard trilogy making its HD debut next month on Sky Movies Greats but also his underrated Navy SEALS-in-Nigeria thriller, Tears of the Sun. Also getting its first 1080i tour of duty, on the eve of its Blu-ray release, is Saving Private Ryan, along […]