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  Saturday  Cars | TVNZ 2, 5.05 Batman Begins | TVNZ 2, 7.00 Alpha and Omega | Three, 7.00 Australia | Three, 8.45 Carrie |Duke, 9.00 The Dark Knight | TVNZ 2, 9.30 Saturday Concussion | TVNZ 1, 11.00   Sunday Masterminds | TVNZ 2, 8.30 Bridget Jones’s Baby | Three, 8.30 Birth | Maori TV, 8.30 The Exorcist | TVNZ 2, 11.05 […]

Transcendence Directed by Wally Pfister. Written by Jack Paglen. Starring Johnny Depp, Rebecca Hall, Paul Bettany, Morgan Freeman. Value for money:  $$ if it is crap like I suspect $$$$ if it is a genius look at AI and morality. Which went over my head. Transcendence is either a ham-fisted thriller with clunky characters and […]

Sunday’s free-to-air HD premiere of The Dark Knight helped TV2 to win the night with nearly seven hours of wall-to-wall HD programming, from Pretty Little Liars at 5.30pm to Revenge at 11.40pm. The Batman sequel averaged 9.1%-10.7% of the key demographics, and was roughly twice as popular as TV3’s HD drama, The Big C, which started […]

Movie: The Dark Knight (TV2, 8.30, R) Holy high definition! The darkest Batman movie is screening in HD for the first time on network TV, making it the best Knight’s entertainment yet. True, the strung together plot about The Joker terrorising Gotham is riddled with holes bigger than the entrance to the Batcave. But visually and stylistically it nails the grit of the […]

New Zealand’s definitive guide to what’s airing nightly free-to-air in 1080i Saturday The Secret Lives of Dancers (TV3, 4.30, R) TradeZone Gine Fishin’ (TV3, 5.00) Rheem Outdoors With Geoff (TV3, 5.30, R) Keeping Up With the Joneses (TV One, 7.00) Terra Nova (TV3, 7.30, 5.1) Winners & Losers (TV One, 10.30, R) Movie: Taking Woodstock (TV3, 10.40, 5.1) Sunday Hellcats (TV2, 4.00, […]

This month The Dark Knight will screen on network TV for the first time in HD. TV2 will air the 2008 sequel as its Sunday Premiere Movie on March 11 — the day after TV3’s HD premiere of the 2009 comedy/drama, Taking Woodstock. The same week also is notable for Bones ending its season-seven run after […]

Holy Hollywood Hype! Claims that Avatar notched up record-breaking Blu-ray sales in its first four days of release in North America have been KAPOWED! by a rival studio. Warner Bros has disputed 20th Century Fox’s assertion that its Batman hit, The Dark Knight, sold only 2.5 million copies on Blu-ray, compared to Avatar’s 2.7 million. […]