Category: That’s entertainment

Movies, music, telly and anything else that might be deemed entertaining (possibly Tasers)

Try out the online hot seat

If you’re one of those armchair quiz show contestants who likes to sit at home yelling at your TV screen as the poor sods doing it for real try to make their fortune, you might like to try out some…

Distracted by pain (TV review)

I’d always thought Distraction was about as good as it could possibly get when it came to in-your-face bad taste shows. It’s always nice to be proved wrong. Balls of Steel goes that one step further, pushing the bounds of…

What a ripper!

Well, it looks as if I’m not the only one sick of hearing about poor Paris and her dramas! MSNBC presenter Mika Brzezinski lost the plot over yet another story on the world’s favourite celebutard. She refuses to read the…

Fast-forwarding to comedy (TV review)

I believe in supporting Kiwi music just as much as the next bloke but I have to confess I haven’t really been following the latest televised vocal bun-fight — Pop’s Ultimate Star — too closely. I’m all singing competitioned-out after the…

Battle for Jericho goes online

This is the Online column, written for The Southland Times) You have to wonder what’s wrong with the world when Hugh Grant’s considered sexy, Helen Clark supposedly looks like Andie MacDowell (according to the My Heritage find-your-celebrity-lookalike site) and Jericho…

Fugalicious: the burning questions

Now that the Golden Globes have finally happened and we can begin our official countdown to the Oscars, it might be timely to pop over to one of my favourite websites to see what the Queens of style have to…

Genius of Lennon can’t be denied, even now

This is the Online column, written for The Southland Times) Tomorrow will mark the 26th anniversary of the death of a man who shaped music for his generation and beyond, John Lennon. His widow Yoko Ono ran a full-page advertisement…

Kiwi dreams

A video that seems to have everyone talking right now is the Kiwi! video, put together by animator Dony Permedi. The debate centres around whether this little story is sad or inspiring. I think it’s a bit of both, showing…

Brit sees the light

It’s finally happened, Britney Spears has left that no-talent git she married a couple of years ago. Now don’t get me wrong, I’m certainly no fan of the wee blonde chick’s music. However, I’ve long felt sorry for the young…