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Sunday Theatre’s suffragette drama, Votes for Women – What Really Happened, got the thumbs-up from critics but not viewers. The NZ Herald said it did “a fine job of focusing on New Zealand historical events” and The Dominion Post praised the “fine acting” and a script that ”mostly avoided being too preachy”. But as was […]

Network Premiere: Robin Hood (TV3, 8.30, 5.1) Ridley Scott’s entertaining but flawed take on the Sherwood Forest outlaw was his fourth consecutive collaboration with Russell Crowe. His visually impressive revisionism cloaks the 900-year-old legend within the guise of historical credibility but isn’t dark or Elizabeth-an enough to satisfy adults while being too sombre and complex for kids. If only […]