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Elf TVNZ 2, 7pm This family Christmas classic stars Will Ferrell as an oversized elf who leaves the North Pole for New York on a quest to find his biological father. Parents might want to stick around for the double feature because at 8.45pm, it’s back to the 80s with Tom Cruise in Risky Business. Sky Movies Pop-Up, Channel 38 Running from December 16-28, this festive channel features Christmas movies old and new. Tonight at 8.30pm it’s 2020 holiday romance Candy Cane Christmas while on Monday at 6.20pm it is the James Stewart festive classic It’s A Wonderful Life, continuing to d...

Walking has become state-sanctioned since the pandemic.  Lovers who are not allowed to meet inside for sex or a night in front of the telly are permitted to plod grimly through a local park in a socially distanced manner. No hand-holding even. Once upon a time a walk with your beloved would make your heart soar. Now it's become a poor way of keeping your relationship ticking over. And as for the health lobby's tyranny of the 10,000 steps a day? I'm not counting. During the first lockdown the daily walk for an hour's permitted exercise was a novelty. The world seemed cleaner, freed from traff...

AVC: Is it fair to say that you’ve been thinking about this book as a filmmaker since you read it? MN: Not at all. I read it as a reader—twice, I loved it so much. It inspired me, but I never even thought at that time that I would make it into a film. This was 1993. TV streaming series and long-form cinema were not in the vocabulary. I’m an independent feature filmmaker, and I never thought to make it a series. AVC: It’s really visually stunning, right from the beginning. MN: It is also, I have to say, an embrace of decay—to show aristocracy, but to show it warts and all, in a sense...