Today Actor Brave Bruce Hopkins is likely to have joined the ranks of New Zealand’s most hated by daring to speak out against the country’s 100% pure cult. Why did he do it? because he cares and he wants to improve something he obviously loves. You may remember Mr Hopkins as Gamling in Peter Jackson’s…
New Zealand’s reputation as an unsafe tourism destination grew again with the recent deaths of four British and two Australian tourists in a helicopter crash over the Fox Glacier. The downed helicopter is wedged in a glacier at the base of a steep slope. The large size of the debris field, and scorch marks in the…
Small town New Zealand is far from paradise, many communities are failed communities.
Another reminder today that New Zealand straddles the Pacific Rim of Fire and is a geologically active country. Scientists have issues a yellow alert for Mount Tongariro following a recent increase in the number of volcanic earthquakes beneath the mountain. The volcanic activity comes against the background of other earthquakes in New Zealand over the…
What’s all this then, we’ll have no trouble here. The casting agent involved in yesterday’s Hobbit ‘skingate’ scandal has been terminated from the job, according to a report in Stuff: …The agent, an independent contractor, had also placed a newspaper ad saying female hobbit extras should have “light skin tones”. A spokesman for Jackson’s Wingnut…
The Herald today carried an article telling us that, according to a review written by Peter Jackson and David Court, government funding is “critical” to the NZ film industry and that “There is an obvious question: ‘Do we need the New Zealand Film Commission?’,” the report asked. “The answer is unreserved: Yes,” it said. “Movies…
