Over 32,000 for an A-League football match in this rugby-obsessed country? And it’s not exactly like there’s nothing else to do in Wellington; the city’s March calendar is busier than Tiger Woods’ publicist right now. So why so popular?

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The Eels season up until Sunday night had played out like a Hollywood movie.

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Has there ever been two teams heading into the NRL Grand Final on more of a roll than Melbourne and Parramatta are on right now? I don't think so. 

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“How the mighty have fallen” they say, but for me it’s more a case of how the underdogs have risen.

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There may have been student rioting on the streets of my neighbourhood over the past few nights but the only action I was interested in was playing out on Sky channels 30–32 in my lounge.

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For eight teams, September is a time to look ahead to the upcoming weeks of finals football, but for the Warriors it’s time to sift through the smoking wreckage of a season in the hopes of finding the black box that will explain exactly what went so horribly wrong this year.

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Sunshine Cleaning has all the ingredients of a horrendously depressing movie and in the wrong hands it would have been just that, but we’re spared by a couple of fine performances from its female leads.

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Arguably his most ambitious project yet, Inglourious Basterds is proof that Quentin Tarantino is one of the masters of his craft.

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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is like an out of control party; loud, rambunctious and messy but afterwards you know you’ve had a good time.

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It’s been two years since Optimus Prime and his crew of hip robotic superheroes graced the screens in what was literally one of the most explosive blockbusters of 2007.

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