Julie Orringer’s first book, a stunning short-story collection entitled How To Breathe Underwater, was a New York Times notable book.

Copenhagen in the early 1990s. Bernardo Greene is a patient at a Clinic for Torture Victims. In his native Chile, he'd been tortured for two years by the Pinochet regime.

Sometimes you get the feeling that some contestants think they know better than the producers and the judges. And then those people aren't there any more.

The lasting affection for Shatner is partly because he's been smart enough to make a fool out of himself, writes Russell Baillie.

After proving himself as a master of turning comic books into visually tantalising films, Zack Snyder was allowed to create his dream project.

Moodysson's film drew catcalls at its 2009 Berlinale screening, the first outside his native Sweden. On balance, such a response seems unduly passionate; it might have been more appropriate to snore.

In New Zealand, it seems the only real criminals we get to see on on telly is on the CCTV footage on Police Ten 7.

Faintheartedness, the second solo work from ex-Goldenhorse guitar/vocalist/songwriter Ben King, but first under the moniker Grand Rapids, started as a limited release giveaway about a year ago.

The limited edition of this album comes with a DVD doco about this New York garage band. It's entitled Pardon Us For Living But the Graveyard is Full and that's apt, as the Fleshtones have been around forever.

The G rating for this visually stunning nature documentary should be accompanied with a note that it "contains commentary that is banal, incomprehensible or unhelpful - sometimes all three at once".

Mixing live action with animated characters like we've seen in other films such as Alvin and The Chipmunks (which Tim Hill also directed), Hop is technically fantastic.

As you'd expect from a film called Rio, music, dancing and Carnival play a large role in this bright, glossy animated comedy from the creators of Ice Age.

This issue of the British literary journal is dedicated to Pakistan.

After a series of fine albums, Ohio's Over the Rhine deliver their most sophisticated album to date

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Stars: 5/5. Verdict: The history of Chicago blues in Alligator's shoes across two exciting discs.

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Inkinen hits early heights with uplifting Lilburn fanfare

Seeing Hemingway through his first wife's eyes is an intriguing view.