![Album Review: Cults, Cults](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Album Review: Cults, Cults
Male-female duo the Cults seem to want to dispel some of the connotations of their badge "new indie-pop band from New York".
Male-female duo the Cults seem to want to dispel some of the connotations of their badge "new indie-pop band from New York".
The latest album from the youngest son of the late Nigerian rebel and music maker Fela Kuti is co-produced by Brian Eno, and while Afrobeat is well past its heyday, this sounds fresh and resonant.
Unsensational, intimate and quietly passionate, March's meticulously observed examination of the crisis facing the small atoll of Takuu is an object lesson in patient documentary film-making.
The original Cars of 2006 was Pixar animation's least fulfilling film with a laboured story and a look that never let you forget you were watching a cartoon.
Jazz and metal are linked by the fact that when they are played at their best they are both adventurous, fiery forms of music.
On her debut album, gutsy but dainty Wellington singer-songwriter Janina explores her life lessons through her three loves - classical music, rock 'n' roll and clever writing.
Whoever thought there was promise in this story idea should have baled out at script stage and saved a million dollars or so.
Jools and Lynda Topp's Pakuranga Bowling Club alter egos almost brought the Civic's roof down.
Mention a trip to see Bridesmaids and someone will likely comment "oh yeah, the female version of The Hangover".
It's time for utter musical madness to take hold once again. And it's about time because it's been four long years since New York instrumental crazies the Battles released their classic brain-addling debut, Mirrored.
Heartwarming story of an unlikely friendship.
The Girl In The Polka-dot Dress could be described as a "road novel", since most of the action takes place on the freeways of America as Harold Grasse drives his newly bought, second-hand camper from Maryland to California in the 1960s.
Two middle-aged ladies are central to Alan Bennett's reflective pair of comedies in Smut.
Tanya Moir's first novel is an example of historical fiction that brings to life a moment in time in a way that is graceful and thoughtful.
When Michael King died in a road accident in 2004 at the age of 58, New Zealand lost one of its most admired writers and this collection, edited by his novelist daughter Rachael King, reminds us how he earned his reputation.
When anyone precious dies, most people attempt to keep their memory alive. This can be done by using their name a lot. Valuing the things they once touched. Or even wore.
Inkinen puts his stamp on contrasting NZSO offerings.
It's 30 years since this Australian pub rock-meets-synth rock band changed their name from Flowers to Icehouse.
What better way to document 15 years as one of New Zealand's most dependable and pioneering electronic acts than with an album of their best (not to mention diverse) remixes, and some Pitch Black tunes you may not have heard before.
A "tuakana" is a mentor (literally "older sibling") to a "teina", and this $20 double bill includes Strong Hands, a contemporary drama by Michael Rewiri-Thorsen and Te Awarua, a tragicomic melange of history and myth by tuakana Albert Belz.
The previous album by this Auckland-based four-piece, Cross Your Heart, announced a heartland country-rock band in the Warratahs' lineage, but one given a slightly more alt.country twist.
After a weightless galaxy-soaring opener, hip-hop dance three-piece Kidz in Space throw their debut album a few hard punches, and raise burning questions over how to define them - heavy pop, strobe-lit hip-hop, Kiwi-Brit rap?
Ed Helms, the uptight guy from The Hangover films, gets further typecast in this smutty, sweet indie comedy.
This earnest but rather stilted historical drama is the first production by The American Film Company, founded in 2008 by internet stockbroking billionaire (and Chicago Cubs owner) Joe Ricketts.
This knockabout British comedy has good intentions: to confront the horrors of Arab-Israeli relations by laughing at them.
"Art," intones Misha, one of this movie's two main characters, "is way of seeing; it is both gift and curse."
Russell Baillie reviews the highly anticipated Green Lantern movie directed by Kiwi Martin Campbell and starring Ryan Reynolds.
A staunch advocate of te reo and cultural pride, Apanui opens this album with an electro-thump call for everyone to support the revitalisation of the language and lopes into a reggae-driven and timely celebration of Matariki.
If the 2009 debut from London's Durham clan was the soundtrack to a very cool 1950s' school dance, then follow up Smoking in Heaven> is a more rollicking and reckless knees-up for grown-ups.