Atamira Dance Company's's beautifully crafted new Te Houhi - The People and the Land are One draws on intricately connected layers of dance, video imagery and narrated text to share poignant ancestral stories from the Ngai Tuhoe lineage.

It was a little disappointing really, only for the fact Alice Cooper - still the reigning king of gonzo shock rock after more than 40 years in the business - died just once, maybe twice, last night.

Are Super Villains New Zealand’s first masked hip-hop group?

As the title implies, Friends with Benefits deals with the social convention of what is meant to be meaningless sex between good friends.

It would be nice not to feel the need to eviscerate yet another New Zealand Film Commission-backed local horror that isn't up to its genre job description.

The songs still ring out with trumpets and french horns, a wurlitzer and ukulele, among many other instruments.

Although the Stones were more profoundly influenced by black American music, the young Beatles certainly drew from that well.

Joe Nunweek's take on the APRA Silver Scroll Awards, the country's premiere songwriting awards ceremony.

What kind of historical novelist is Barry Unsworth? Despite his practised ear for the idioms of the mid-18th century drawing-room, and weather eye for the contents of the era's wardrobe, he is not a pasticheur.

For the past 50 years Detroit has given birth to genres that would be heard worldwide. Motown's deep back catalogue, house and techno are all musical exports of this great city.

Felicity Perry found Aucklanders @Peace very much at home in Wellington.

The Rugby World Cup opening ceremony may have hogged the TV, but there was plenty of entertainment across town at The Winchester, writes Joe Nunweek.

A family history. Also a social and intellectual history, and a different take on the Australian Dream.

The ubiquitous Giamatti plays Mike Flaherty, a lawyer in suburban New Jersey whose practice is going down the drain.

These 18 songs are made up of selections of tracks taken from all of punk rock poet Smith's albums, starting from 1975 debut 'Horses', through to 2007's 'Twelve'.

You will go a long way to see a better piece of screen acting than the one Joanne Froggatt turns in here, as a British soldier returning from a tour of duty in Iraq.

Muted colours, natural lighting and misty moors fill director Cary Fukunaga's moody Jane Eyre, yet another screen adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's 1847 gothic romance.

For a city that too often seems sadly concerned with its musical past as opposed its future, it was refreshing to see the sixth birthday relying heavily on youth and new talent for its celebrations.

Scott Kara commentates on the commentators of all the channels covering the Rugby World Cup games.