Claire Rogers - All about wine Every week I have the unenviable task of sampling a wine with a wine representative in order to bring you a cross section of wine to suit all prices and tastes in an easily digestible format (a tough assignment, I know). This lovely gamay noir is a delicious, explosive wine, bursting with crushed red-berry characters. Pour a glass and marvel at its gorgeous purple hue. It's vibrant fruit More...

From the director of Donnie Darko comes another mind-bender: Norma (Cameron Diaz) and Arthur Lewis (James Marsden) are a suburban couple with a young kid who receive a simple wooden box with a big red button. A mysterious man (Frank Langella) comes along and tells them that they will be delivered $1 million if they press the button. The downside is that someone, somewhere in the world, will die. Norma and Arthur have 24 hours to choose whether they want to take part in this odd trade-off. The More...

The sequel to the fantastic The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and based on the second novel of Swedish author and journalist Stieg Larsson’s best-selling trilogy. Lisbeth Salander (again played by Noomi Rapace) is a wanted woman. Two Millennium magazine journalists about to expose the truth about the sex trade in Sweden are brutally murdered, and Salander’s prints are on the weapon. She returns to Sweden after a year abroad with the authorities after her. Meanwhile, More...

Pete Morris - Art Blogger Pete is an occasional painter and an art lover. He is a freelance writer with a particular interest in promoting the visual arts in Tauranga. Why watercolours? Why me? Accomplished Tauranga artist Nick Eggleston posed these questions when he spoke at Harrison 's Gallery in Tauranga recently. He told the gathering at the watercolour exhibition opening that it More...

Claire Rogers - All about wine Every week I have the unenviable task of sampling a wine with a wine representative in order to bring you a cross section of wine to suit all prices and tastes in an easily digestible format (a tough assignment, I know). Saint Clair winery’s processes of making classically fruity sauvignon blanc; not to mention the final product, are like an art form. The Vicar’s Choice More...

Claire Rogers - All about wine Every week I have the unenviable task of sampling a wine with a wine representative in order to bring you a cross section of wine to suit all prices and tastes in an easily digestible format (a tough assignment, I know). There is nothing that beats a great pinot noir and the 2008 Dog Point is right up there on my list. More...

A road-trip comedy about the beautiful Ann Devereaux (Renée Zellweger), who has just left her philandering husband Dan (Kevin Bacon), a society bandleader, and taken to the road with her teenage sons in search of a suitable new mate. But it’s 1953, years past Ann’s courting days. Now it seems that the losers and playboys outnumber the eligible and willing bachelors. As the miles roll by, travelling from New York to Hollywood in a baby-blue ‘53 Cadillac Coupe de Ville More...

Pete Morris - Art Blogger Pete is an occasional painter and an art lover. He is a freelance writer with a particular interest in promoting the visual arts in Tauranga. Meredith Collins is an award winning New Zealand artist who will exhibit at Tauranga's Fisher Brown Gallery in July. Meredith also exhibits in leading NZ galleries and exhibited in New York last year. Her paintings and More...

Claire Rogers - All about wine Every week I have the unenviable task of sampling a wine with a wine representative in order to bring you a cross section of wine to suit all prices and tastes in an easily digestible format (a tough assignment, I know). A wine with a difference; once you taste this wine you will understand what I mean, it is stunning. With a bouquet of aromatic white flowers, ripe citrus and minerally More...

Set in the exciting world of the New York Theatre, teenage student Richard Samuels (Zac Efron) lucks his way into a minor role in the legendary 1937 Mercury Theatre production of Julius Caesar, directed by a youthful Orson Welles. Over the course of a magical week, Richard makes his Broadway debut, finds romance with an ambitious older woman, and experiences the dark side of genius after daring to cross the imperious, brilliant Welles. Richard has to grow up fast. Me and Orson Welles is More...