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SoHo Cinema: Warm Springs (Sky 10, 8.30, 5.1) Kenneth Branagh and Sex and the City’s Cynthia Nixon star in a heartwarming dramatisation of how polio politically liberated Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Branagh’s transformation as FDR is astounding yet he rarely overshadows Nixon as Roosevelt’s stoical wife, Eleanor. Warm Springs occasionally succumbs to sentimentality but mostly is an illuminating […]

Holy cow! TV3’s HD premiere of Home Alone 2: Lost in New York helped the network to win Thursday night when it demolished most of the competition. The 1992 blockbuster drew 9.7% of 18-49 year-olds (compared to The Vampire Diaries’ 6.4% on TV2), 9.1% of 25-54 year-olds (vs 6.1%) and 12.9% of household shoppers with […]

TV2’s newest HD drama, The Vampire Diaries (8.30 tonight), has more merit than its “Gossip Girl meets Twilight“ description suggests. It’s no True Blood, which resumes on June 30 (Prime, 9.30pm), but the premiere is freaky, creepy, sleekly-made escapism that doesn’t suck as much as you’d think. The Los Angeles Times likened it to a […]