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The 40 Year Old Virgin: TV3, 8.30pm Sunday. This ribald romantic-comedy about a bachelor with a monk’s personal life stars Steve Carell as a 40-year-old who’s never had sex – until his workmates find out and try to engineer some close encounters of the fervid kind. Virgin is smarter — and sweeter — than it […]

LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA’HOOLE The cinematic animation is breathtakingly detailed but still can’t transcend a muddled, semi-mystical screenplay that will have adults and older children cringing at its anthropomorphic awfulness. Still, the startling high definition will have you wide-eyed while the kid-driven extras include an in-depth, picture-in-picture commentary and a new […]

The Sentinel: TV3, 8.30pm Saturday. Kiefer Sutherland shouldn’t have given up his day job – TV’s 24 was far more compelling and convincing than this feeble conspiracy thriller about a Secret Service plot to kill the President of the United States (you can guess the enemy within just from the casting). Michael Douglas and Kim […]