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SATURDAY FEBRUARY 11

JURASSIC PARK III

When palaeontology met ornithology

TVNZ 2, 7.00pm

After sitting out the first sequel, Sam Neill’s Dr Alan Grant returns for this patchy, Steven Spielberg-free instalment. It leans heavily on the connections between dinosaurs and birds. Still, it has its moments – like the one involving the dwindling human survivors discovering the rope bridge they’re on is in an aviary of blood-thirsty pteranodons. (2001)

RANGO

The scales of justice

Three, 7.00pm

The Oscar-winning satirical animated, spaghetti-western creature feature about Rango, a chameleon who finds himself a

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