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![Theatre review: Short+Sweet Theatre Week 1, Herald Theatre](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Theatre review: Short+Sweet Theatre Week 1, Herald Theatre
Misfits, murderers, heroes and lovers all troop across the Herald Theatre stage this week in 11 short plays ranging from farce to melodrama.
![Praise Yeezus: Critics love Kanye West's new album](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Praise Yeezus: Critics love Kanye West's new album
He hardly needs the attention, but the new album by Kanye West is receiving overwhelming praise from critics after it leaked early online.
![Movie review: The Other Son](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Movie review: The Other Son
The baby switched at birth narrative is nothing new. It's a simple, somewhat cliched plot device for comparing the lives of two individuals with polar upbringings.
![Movie review: The Internship](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Movie review: The Internship
Wedding Crashers stars Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn reunite for this light comedy that favours a commercial message over remotely organic storytelling.
![TV Preview: Dynamo: Magician Impossible](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
TV Preview: Dynamo: Magician Impossible
Sarah Lang is speechless at this magician’s craft.
![Concert review: Molly Ringwald jazzes up her teen star image](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Concert review: Molly Ringwald jazzes up her teen star image
Tasteful is the word that comes to mind when reflecting on Molly Ringwald's performance of jazz standards and show tunes, at the newly opened Tuning Fork lounge in Vector Arena.
![Concert review: Killing Joke, The Studio](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Concert review: Killing Joke, The Studio
It wasn't the confrontational and ritual-like concert Killing Joke were renowned for in their early years.
![Movie reviews: World War Z & After Earth](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Movie reviews: World War Z & After Earth
Brad Pitt finally did a popcorn movie with World War Z so his older kids could watch something of his - "please Mom not Tomb Raider 2 again"- together.
![Album review: Black Sabbath, 13](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Album review: Black Sabbath, 13
Ozzy may have lost a few marbles over the years, but he's never lost that bloodcurdling, nightmarish voice, writes Scott Kara.
![Colin Hogg: Light, fluffy - is it news or an omelette](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Colin Hogg: Light, fluffy - is it news or an omelette
It seems something of a modern media miracle that our two big broadcasters still offer primetime local current affairs television shows, but they both do, God bless them.
![Classical review: Blistering passion from winning violinist](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Classical review: Blistering passion from winning violinist
Every two years, the final reckoning of the Michael Hill International Violin Competition is an appreciated highlight of our winter cultural calendar.
![Review: The Great Gatsby](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Review: The Great Gatsby
Baz Luhrmann rebounds from the travesty that was Australia with a subject befitting his particular cinematic swagger.
![Movie review: Bekas](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Movie review: Bekas
"Dear God, please let me and my brother go to America and meet Superman."
![TV Preview: Wentworth](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
TV Preview: Wentworth
Nick Grant relives a childhood trauma as he samples a reincarnated 1980s.
![Movie review: The Hunt](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Movie review: The Hunt
Even though he consistently puts out great work in European films, Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen is still best known to English-speaking audiences as the blood-weeping bad guy in 2006's Casino Royale.
![Classical review: A chance to hear the cream of the cream](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Classical review: A chance to hear the cream of the cream
Inevitably, the buzz around town this week has been the Michael Hill Violin Competition. With last weekend's Queenstown eliminations over, and all performances still available online, the contestants and adjudicators have come north.