Movies
She has become the emblem for the Maori renaissance, a two-fisted earth mother who fights to stem the slide of her people into indigence.
March 10, 1995
Television
Garth Maxwell’s “When Love Comes” is an edgy, multi-character love story whose central figure, a fading pop singer, is played by the compelling New Zealand actress Rena Owen, who won international acclaim as the weary, abused wife in Lee Tamahori’s 1994 “Once Were Warriors.”
Aug. 20, 1999
A fable about New Zealand’s indigenous Maori people before the arrival of European settlers, “The Dead Lands” values entertainment over archaeology.
April 16, 2015
Blue skies, lush green hillsides, a limpid lake: The first picture “Once Were Warriors” presents of New Zealand is the classic, expected one.
March 3, 1995
Awards
Production designer Adam Stockhausen says of the ambitious script, “The descriptions were all there on the page so the details blow your hair back a bit.”
Jan. 26, 2022
Allow me to start by calling for a moratorium on serial killers on screens big and small, and also on the use of naked corpses of good-looking young women (discovered typically in weedy fields or abandoned warehouses) for cheap titillating effect.
March 8, 2005
SERIESiZombie Liv (Rose McIver) investigates the gruesome killing of a private eye in this new episode.
July 10, 2019
Olympics
WOMEN * Michelle Kwan, 24 -- Gold standard of skating is chasing history -- again.
Jan. 9, 2005
Kwan skates for a record-tying ninth U.S. championship tonight in Portland. Cohen hopes to spoil those plans and win her first.
Jan. 15, 2005
Kwan hasn’t forgotten the woman whose record she is chasing. Vinson Owen set the mark of nine U.S. titles.
Jan. 10, 2005