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House of Cards | Netflix ☆☆☆☆ “If you continued to love Kevin Spacey’s hammy and increasingly dreadful lead performance and the repetitive storytelling that Frank’s well-past-parody scheming generated, you’ll surely find something missing in these closing chapters. Otherwise, the shift in focus from Frank to Claire Underwood finds the series somewhat reinvigorated through its first five […]

House of Cards: Season 6 (2/11/2018) With Frank out of the picture, Claire Underwood steps fully into her own as the first woman president, but faces formidable threats to her legacy. Super Drags (9/11/2018) Three gay friends, working by day at a department store, lead double lives as crime-fighting superhero drag queens. The Sinner: Season 2 […]

Secret City | Netflix, from Tuesday ➢ “This ambitious Australian conspiracy thriller might end up being more popcorn-muncher than nail-biter, but it’s definitely worth checking out … Canberra has certainly never looked so malignant in the visual sense …  Secret City — which is based on not one but two novels by political journalists Steve […]

House of Cards (Netflix, season five streaming now) “How eagerly fans embrace the fifth season could depend on how eagerly they embraced the fourth, or at least the fourth season’s wrap. That domestic terrorism plotline must have played well in the writers’ room, but less so under the camera’s impassive gaze … The fifth-season opener efficiently […]

   Sense8: Season 2 (5/5/2017) Scandals and celebrations deepen the Sensates’ bond as they rebuild their lives and try to outsmart Whispers. Master of None: Season 2 (12/5/2017) Dev pursues a new passion in Italy, dives back into the New York dating scene and wrestles with big questions as he seeks to reboot his life. […]

“Kung Fu Panda 3 unsurprisingly looks fantastic on Blu-ray. Fox/DreamWorks’ 1080p presentation is a sight to behold, another example of how the Blu-ray medium can really pounce on material like this and dazzle even after all these years. “The image is slick and clean. Details are ridiculously impressive.” “With the movie skewed for a tween audience, […]

When watching Netflix, do you “devour” or “savour” series? The streaming giant has just released research that reveals how subscribers around the world view its content. Using100 serialised TV series across more than 190 countries, Netflix’s “Binge Scale” found subscribers “blow through” shows like Breaking Bad and The Walking Dead but are “captivated” by the […]

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is finalising a NZ Blu-ray release date for House of Cards’ third season. It’s been delayed by nearly a year because of a Netflix stuff-up over posting the series on its NZ site. Despite it being known for months that a NZ broadcaster didn’t own the rights to the White House drama, […]

Breaking news: It turns out TV3’s revamped news and current affairs won’t be in wall-to-wall HD, after all. Instead, only the studio cameras, weather and graphics will be true HD — stories will be SD but up-converted going in to the studio. In other words, an HD production with some SD elements. The good news is all field cameras should have […]

Ahead of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow TVNZ OnDemand premiere, The Hollywood Reporter has published a beginner’s guide to the “superhero mash-up“, which it likens to “taking a bunch of comic book shows and putting them into a blender, with the end result being a delicious but jam-packed DC Comics smoothie. There’s more than one show’s fair share of […]