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Eagle vs Shark: TV3, 9.30pm Saturday. This geeky, goofy comedy stars Loren Horsley and Jemaine Clement as looney, lonelyheart losers for whom true love takes a twisted and, for the viewer, increasingly tortuous path. The charm of the leads and Taika Waititi’s (Boy) enterprising direction keep Eagle vs Shark from imploding with idiosyncratic navel-gazing. But […]

There’s not much new on Blu-ray for grown-ups this week. The unusually dismal line-up of theatrical releases ranges from the comedies, Grown Ups and Vampires Suck, to the family films, Cats & Dogs 2: The Revenge of Kitty Galore and The Last Airbender, to the graveyard shift tearjerker, Charlie St Cloud. Offering some relief from […]