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Making Tracks (TV3, 4.00, R) Nick Dwyer travels to London where he chats with Damon Albarn of Blur and Gorillaz fame, Mark Ronson, and Professor Green; award-winning indie band, The Invisible, covers Chris Knox’s Not Given Lightly. Rules of Engagement (TV3, 4.30, 5.1) Audrey pours on the guilt when Jeff takes off for an Atlantic […]

Marley & Me: TV3, 8.30pm Saturday. Every dog-eared joke you can think of is funnier than this comedy that laboriously contrasts a husband-and-wife’s testing relationship with their larrikin Labrador’s unconditional love. Based on a true story, it’s an amusing but predictable take on marriage, kids and pets that surprises only by crediting among its writers […]

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 […]