EntertainmentMovie Review: The Tree of LifePeter Calder reviews The Tree of Life, an enthralling but only sporadically engaging, new film by the American maestro Malick, which he says is an ambitious but disappointing work.26 Aug 05:30 PM
EntertainmentAlbum Review: Cut Off Your Hands, HollowTwo years after the release of Cut Off Your Hands' first album, new album <i>Hollow</i> has emerged and it's a more settled and melancholic offering - with smooth and soaring melodicism and often-plaintive tenderness.24 Aug 06:30 PM
EntertainmentMovie Review: Mr Popper's PenguinsA contemporary tale for this century, this is no longer just the fun story of a man randomly sent a penguin by an explorer, it's now the story of a man trying to reconnect with his family, and must learn there's more to life than working. 24 Aug 06:30 PM
EntertainmentAlbum Review: The War on Drugs, Slave AmbientFrom the amusing band name through their swooning post-REM pop-rock, this fine and play-loud album so adeptly juggles Tom Petty/Byrds, slacker alt rock and post-grunge 90s pop that you can't help but like it. 24 Aug 06:30 PM
EntertainmentMovie Review: Crazy, Stupid LoveThe first comedy-drama to be produced by and starring Steve Carell since his exit from the television show The Office, features a fabulous cast doing their best with a script that's quietly amusing rather than laugh-out-loud funny.24 Aug 06:30 PM
EntertainmentAlbum Review: The Bambi Molesters, As the Dark Wave SwellsAlthough "surf rock" sounds a limiting description, echoing guitar twang can equally conjure up wide-open dry spaces or brooding spaghetti westerns. 24 Aug 06:30 PM
EntertainmentBook Review: New Zealand FilmThe thing about the movies that we've never got over is that they move. In doing so, they evoke a facsimile of life better than life itself. Even the "fractured flickers" of the early cinema commanded an instant suspension of disbelief.21 Aug 05:30 PM
EntertainmentAlbum Review: Bombino, AgadezWith the new album by nomadic Tuareg band Tinariwen (from Mali) released soon, this album by fellow Tuareg guitarist and songwriter Bombino (from Niger) is an ideal companion piece for fans of trancey and eerie African desert blues. 19 Aug 06:30 PM
EntertainmentAlbum Review: Gotye, Making MirrorsFeaturing our own pop princess Kimbra on the stunning Something That I Used to Know, this is the third album by Belgian-born Australian one-man band and oddball producer Gotye. 19 Aug 06:30 PM
EntertainmentAlbum Review: Cairo Knife Fight, Cairo Knife Fight IIThis four-track EP by multi-instrumentalist Nick Gaffaney and former Weta frontman Aaron Tokona invokes the sound of instruments that are about to fall apart - but you can be sure they never will. 19 Aug 06:30 PM
EntertainmentAlbum Review: Various, Studio One StoryThis long out-of-print package - made up of a four-hour DVD, 16-track CD and 100-page book - gets a reissue eight years on and tells the story of Coxsone Dodd and Studio One, the Jamaican label he founded in 1963, all over again. 19 Aug 06:30 PM
EntertainmentMovie Review: Billy T: Te MovieIt's something of an irony that Billy T James' big breakthrough - which is to say his first star turn on television - had him cast as a poncy English twit by the name of Dexter Fitzgibbons.17 Aug 06:30 PM
EntertainmentMovie Review: The Double HourI'm not entirely sure that this sleek and classy Italian psychological thriller plays fair with its audience. But I'm even less sure that if I watched it a dozen times I'd be able to spot the moments when it cheated.17 Aug 06:30 PM
EntertainmentAlbum Review: Various, WaiataSubtitled, "Maori Showbands, Balladeers and Pop Stars", this 50-track collection arrives right on cue. 17 Aug 06:30 PM
EntertainmentAlbum Review: Wu Lyf, Go Tell Fire to the MountainThey've tried to stay a bit of an enigma, Wu Lyf. The Manchester four-piece declined to be interviewed and just turned up and writhed around in front of curious crowds.13 Aug 04:22 AM
OpinionFiction Addiction: Escaping into 'There But For The'If somebody locks himself in a stranger's spare room for months, is he escaping the world or facing up to it?11 Aug 09:00 PM
EntertainmentMovie Review: How I Ended This SummerThe internal lives of a film's characters have seldom been as precisely and enthrallingly reflected in the landscape as in this engrossing Russian feature. It's set and shot quite literally on the edge of the Earth, at Valkarkai Polar Research Station.10 Aug 06:30 PM
EntertainmentAlbum Review: The Throne, Watch The ThroneAs off-putting as Kanye West's self-important ego is, the guy makes fascinating and often challenging music. So you'd expect a collaboration between himself and hip-hop's other bigwig, Jay-Z, to be something of an innovative triumph.10 Aug 06:30 PM
