Bosoms heave in exquisite costumes at Versailles as Marie Antoinette and her household contemplate their future in the last days leading to the French Revolution.

French film Mood Indigo (L’écume des jours) is like something out of a dream.

Some in the audience had been expertly primed in Brian Foster's early evening lecture, but Chamber Music New Zealand's Einstein's Universe concert on Monday night was a stimulating experience.

Russell Baillie takes in the finale of The X Factor.

After a devastating forest fire, two young road workers spend the summer away from their city lives to paint yellow lines down rural Texan roads.

Scott Kara examines the performances of the X Factor finalists.

Kicking off this year's New Zealand International Film Festival was Steven Soderbergh's colourful and flamboyant film, Behind the Candelabra.

Be warned. Despite a title suggesting it delivers a spot of abracadabra, The Conjuring pulls no rabbits out of hats, writes Russell Baillie.