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.

Back in the 1970s Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City columns captured the off-beat spirit of San Francisco. One of Maupin's leading characters was Mary Ann Singleton, a TV presenter.

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.

Continuing their exploration of folk-influenced rock and the ethos, if not the actual sound, of 60s psychedelic rock, the quartet come over reflective and quasi-cosmic on this third studio album.

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

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.

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

Stars: 3/5

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

Stars: 3.5/5

Stars: 3.5./5

Inkinen hits early heights with uplifting Lilburn fanfare

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

This globe-spanning contemporary drama from Swedish writer/director Lukas Moodysson (Lilya 4-Ever) can function as a slightly less histrionic take on the multiple-narrative films of Alejandro González Iñárritu (Babel).

Prepare to cringe as NZ episodes of America's Next Top Model finally make it to our screens.

Britney Spears' seventh studio album - released more than a decade since her debut Baby One More Time and three years since her flop-of-a-comeback Circus - sees her shed all those guises and play the woman she is now.

The name might not be familiar but from the first bar the voice certainly is. It belongs to that rusty balladeer in Gomez.

An offbeat odd-couple comedy with a deliciously bittersweet centre, this highly enjoyable film struggles slightly to communicate across a cultural divide.

Battle Los Angeles drags out every war and alien invasion movie cliche it can in two hours of noise and action, and very little else.