Misfits, murderers, heroes and lovers all troop across the Herald Theatre stage this week in 11 short plays ranging from farce to melodrama.

He hardly needs the attention, but the new album by Kanye West is receiving overwhelming praise from critics after it leaked early online.

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.

Wedding Crashers stars Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn reunite for this light comedy that favours a commercial message over remotely organic storytelling.

Sarah Lang is speechless at this magician’s craft.

Escaping from the French Film Festival on to general release, this whimsical comedy rests on the talents of Noemie Lvovsky.

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.

It wasn't the confrontational and ritual-like concert Killing Joke were renowned for in their early years.

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.

Driven by the relentless rhythm of their eight-strong Live-Band, Ballet Revolucion's troupe of 20 young Cuban dancers explode on to the stage with the ferocious force of a Caribbean tsunami.

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.

Every two years, the final reckoning of the Michael Hill International Violin Competition is an appreciated highlight of our winter cultural calendar.

Baz Luhrmann rebounds from the travesty that was Australia with a subject befitting his particular cinematic swagger.

"Dear God, please let me and my brother go to America and meet Superman."

Nick Grant relives a childhood trauma as he samples a reincarnated 1980s.

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.