It's something of an irony that this portrait of our most accessible poet should be at times quite hard to watch.

Here's the thing. The first Hangover was funny because everybody was trying to remember what happened.

The trial from the protracted case resulting from the "anti-terror" raids of October 2007 was to have started this week. But yet another legal hurdle has meant the arrested 18's day in court is still to come.

For all the 21st century special effects which brings them to life on screen, most of the comic book superheroes still selling Happy Meals and movie tickets today started off many decades ago.

One of the most interesting things about reading a historical novel is working out what period detailing preoccupies the novelist and is used as a means of anchoring it to its era.

Never mind its unappealing cover, this debut kids' novel is bound to enchant adults, too.

It's hard to think of a recent debut novel as original and ambitious in its premise - or as successful in its execution - as S.J. Watson's Before I Go to Sleep.

Yes, it's a record by that actor chap Hugh Laurie. And no, it's not House music.

The latest collection of late-night vibes is curated by Dane Anders Trentemoller - and what a (mostly, anyway) spooky come-down after a night out it would be.

This is the Sonic Youth guitarist's third solo album and there's not a screeching riff in earshot.

Best known in the wider world as part of Leonard Cohen's touring band - the backing vocalists, multi-instrumentalists and cartwheelers - Charley and Hattie from Kent have at the studio desk here uber-producer, Peter Asher.

For an hour, this debut feature is just a mercilessly cheesy old folks' love story. But then it turns preposterous and, in doing so, displays something suspiciously close to contempt for its audience.

Oscar Wilde's 1895 classic comedy of manners is so well-known that it risks sounding like a dictionary of quotations.

As a musician, DJ, and owner of record label Hyperdub, Kode 9 (real name Steve Goodman) from Glasgow was one of the pioneers of the dubstep scene in the early 2000s.

The title character of the last novel by Canadian comic novelist Mordecai Richler is the ultimate unreliable narrator.

To release two albums at the same time is nothing for prolific Japanese experimental noise rock trio Boris, whose sound moves from thrashy punk through to psychedelia and ambient drones.

The Cure played their first show in the Sydney Opera House on Tuesday night as the centre-piece of Vivid Live

Silo Theatre's ambitious season opening is an all-too-rare opportunity to see the work of an African-American playwright on the Auckland stage.

Monica Ali's new novel is unconvincing but entertaining. Where would Princess Diana be now if she faked her death?

The opening of Jane Harris' second novel gives little indication of how dark it will become.

It's always been her defence. She was born this way. Born as an egg flanked by male strippers. A raw piece of meat.

Death casts a long, dark shadow across the fourth feature by the Mexican-born director of Amores Perros, 21 Grams and Babel.

That wimpy kid hasn't toughened up yet but he's back for another round of pre-teen embarrassments, reports Michele Manelis.

Alexandria in the 4th century is the setting for Oscar-winning director Alejandro Amenabar's latest drama.