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Beatbox brilliance: Tom Thum at TEDxSydney
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Beatbox brilliance: Tom Thum at TEDxSydney

Tom Thum: Armed with just a microphone, Thum pushes the limits of the human voice to create incredible soundtracks of impossible beats and phenomenal sounds, with scratched vinyl, the Michael Jackson back-catalogue, the didgeridoo and an entire fifties jazz band amongst his vocal repertoire. courtesy TEDxTalks.

Assassin's Creed IV: Naval Exploration
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Assassin's Creed IV: Naval Exploration

Immerse yourself deeper into the world of Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag with this new gameplay video with commentary from Game Director, Ashraf Ismail. On the voyage to Havana with your ship The Jackdaw, learn the rules that Edward and his crew live by, and how they defy the empires of the 18th Century. Courtesy: Ubisoft

Movie Trailer: The Butler
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Movie Trailer: The Butler

THE BUTLER tells the story of Cecil Gains who served 8 presidents as the White House's head butler over three decades. The film traces the dramatic changes that swept American society during this time, from the civil rights movement to Vietnam and beyond, and how those changes affected this man's life and family. Courtesy: Weinstein and Warner Bros.

Slava's Snowshow hits NZ
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Slava's Snowshow hits NZ

The multi award-winning international sensation 'SLAVA'S SNOWSHOW' has stormed into New Zealand for a limited season playing in Auckland from July 10-14. Since its creation by renowned Russian clown Slava Polunin in 1993, Slava's Snowshow has played to millions of people in more than 30 countries and 120 cities including New York, London, Los Angeles, Paris, Rome, Hong Kong, Sydney, Rio de Janeiro and Moscow. The show brilliantly creates a world of wonderment and fantasy that transports the audience to a joyous dream-like place, where a bed becomes a boat in a storm-tossed sea; a woman is wrapped in cellophane and becomes flowers in a vase; a child walks in amazement inside a bubble; Slava boards a train and then becomes the train, his chimney-pot hat billowing smoke; and a web of unspun cotton envelopes the audience.

Movie Trailer:  The Conjuring
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Movie Trailer: The Conjuring

Before there was Amityville, there was Harrisville. Based on a true story, "The Conjuring" tells the horrifying tale of how world renowned paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren were called upon to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in a secluded farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful demonic entity, the Warrens find themselves caught in the most terrifying case of their lives. Courtesy: WarnerBrosPictures

Force feeding tactics at Guantanamo Bay
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Force feeding tactics at Guantanamo Bay

This video contains graphic content. Mos Def appears in a video launched today demonstrating the Standard Operating Procedure for force-feeding prisoners on hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay. Courtesy: YouTube/Reprieve UK

Movie Trailer: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
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Movie Trailer: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2

It's always been Flint's dream to be recognized as a great inventor, but everything changes when he discovers that his most infamous machine -- which turns water into food -- is still operating and is now creating mutant food beasts. Courtesy: Sony Pictures

Hook Ups Episode 10
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Hook Ups Episode 10

When they aren’t invited, Ira insists the twins roll with him to the elite Halloween party the Rugged Sharks are throwing. He forgets to mention they will be waiting on their supposedly classy hosts. Kowhai’s Riddler costume keeps bombing with guests, much like Monty’s drunk behaviour

Movie Trailer: Escape Plan
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Movie Trailer: Escape Plan

One of the world's foremost authorities on structural security agrees to take on one last job: breaking out of an ultra-secret, high-tech facility called "The Tomb." Deceived and wrongly imprisoned, Ray Breslin (Sylvester Stallone) must recruit fellow inmate Emil Rottmayer (Arnold Schwarzenegger) to help devise a daring, nearly impossible plan to escape from the most protected and fortified prison ever built. Courtesy: lionsgate

Herald Film Chat: Lone Ranger
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Herald Film Chat: Lone Ranger

Herald film reviewers Russell Baillie and Dominic Corry share their thoughts on the American action-adventure western film produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer Films, 'The Lone Ranger'.

The Hobbit: Goodbye Orlando
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The Hobbit: Goodbye Orlando

A day after saying goodbye to Gandalf and Tauriel, it was time to farewell Legolas. What a great day it was, with Orlando battling a serious Orc for all 12 hours of shooting - part of the Battle of the 5 Armies for the third Hobbit movie. When we finally got the day done, we said goodbye to Orlando, had a couple of beers ... and couldn't resist doing this! Courtesy: YouTube/Peter Jackson

The Hobbit: Production Diary
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The Hobbit: Production Diary

Peter Jackson takes you behind the scenes of The Hobbit. In this video blog, he covers additional photography for movies two and three. Courtesy: YouTube/Peter Jackson

Jay-Z chokes up talking about his daughter
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Jay-Z chokes up talking about his daughter

Jay-Z has choked up while talking about his wife Beyonce and one-year-old daughter Blue Ivy. The rapper and music mogul talks about struggles to be a good husband and father in an emotional promotional video for his new song Jay-Z Blue.

Trailer: Utu redux
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Trailer: Utu redux

Watch the trailer for Utu (redux), Geoff Murphy’s classic film enhanced and restored for cinema 30 years after its original release.

Premiering at the New Zealand International Film Festival, click here for more details and tickets.

New Zealand in the 1870's. Te Wheke, a scout for the colonial troops, finds his tribe massacred by the army he is working for. Anguished and betrayed, he vows to exact retribution – utu – on the Pakeha.

Dave's epic hammock fail
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Dave's epic hammock fail

When you watch this video you seem to think you know how this will end...but with all 'sight gags' it has a twist. courtesy Youtube/bringonthetragedy

Wentworth: Behind the scenes
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Wentworth: Behind the scenes

Go behind the scenes of Wentworth, the new Australian women's prison drama, starring Danielle Cormack and Robbie Magasiva.

Wentworth screens on Mondays at 9:30pm on TV2.