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![Arts Festival Review: The Manganiyar Seduction](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Arts Festival Review: The Manganiyar Seduction
The 42 Indian musicians of The Manganiyar Seduction work their wiles in the glare of red and light-bulbs, piled up in a grid inspired by Amsterdam's red-light district.
![Fringe Festival Review: Standstill](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Fringe Festival Review: Standstill
Some marvellous images are being created at the Basement this Fringe, writes Janet McAllister
![Arts Festival Review: Martha Wainwright](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Arts Festival Review: Martha Wainwright
Martha Wainwright describes her look as "ageless" - she is poised on the stage dressed like a school-girl with hair all wispy like her grandmother's.
![Arts Festival Review: May B](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Arts Festival Review: May B
Maguy Marin's landmark work, celebrating 30 feted years of continuous performance, begins with the sculptured forms of its ten dancers, posed in dusty alabaster-like desertion.
![Album Review: Teddy Thompson, Bella](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Album Review: Teddy Thompson, Bella
This 35-year-old son of famed British folk-rockers Richard and Linda follows his own path.
![Album Review: Tiki Taane, In The World Of Light](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Album Review: Tiki Taane, In The World Of Light
It's a dark and punishing trio of tracks at the centre of Tiki Taane's second solo album where he is at his fearsome best, writes Scott Kara
![Movie Review: Certified Copy](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Movie Review: Certified Copy
Enigmatic, engrossing and finally enchanting, the first film shot outside his native Iran by the acclaimed Kiarostami is a Rubik's cube of a movie, constantly changing appearance according to the angle of view.
![Movie Review: Blue Valentine](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Movie Review: Blue Valentine
First things first: this small, intense drama, a sort of anti-Valentine to love turned sour, is driven by two of the most authentic and passionate screen performances you'll see this year.
![Movie Review: Rango](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Movie Review: Rango
There is nothing trendy or conventional about this latest venture from Pirates of the Caribbean collaborators Johnny Depp and director Gore Verbinksi.
![Book Review: <i>Wulf</i>](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Book Review: <i>Wulf</i>
The genesis of this startling first novel is already en route to becoming a New Zealand literary legend.
![Arts Festival Review: Lautten Compagney. Timeless](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Arts Festival Review: Lautten Compagney. Timeless
They may have swept us away with Handel and Purcell last week, but Lautten Compagney's Tuesday cocktail of Merula and Glass was altogether less enticing.
![Arts Festival Review: La Odisea](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Arts Festival Review: La Odisea
Teatro de Los Andes, based in Bolivia, offered to stage their "earthquake play" here instead of La Odisea, but were turned down for logistical reasons.
![Fringe Festival Review: The Hermitude of Angus, Ecstatic](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Fringe Festival Review: The Hermitude of Angus, Ecstatic
At first, this late-night one-man show from Australia looks like just a vehicle for a Mr Bean impersonator in younger, more alternative clothing.
![Arts Festival Review: Beautiful Me](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Arts Festival Review: Beautiful Me
The stage is dark with just the faint gleam of drum kit, sita, cello, violin and four seated musicians.
![Poetry Reviews: Fossicking in the past](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Poetry Reviews: Fossicking in the past
Paula Green reviews three new volumes of poetry from New Zealand writers.
![Fringe Festival Review: Drowning in Veronica Lake](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Fringe Festival Review: Drowning in Veronica Lake
Boldly and cleverly, this Flaxworks solo show is built upon one solitary, striking symbol of celebrity.
![Fringe Festival Review: Silk](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Fringe Festival Review: Silk
Paul Simei-Barton reviews Silk, on at the Basement Theatre as past of the Auckland Fringe Festival
![Arts Festival Review: Paper Sky - A Love Story](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Arts Festival Review: Paper Sky - A Love Story
After creating a sensation at the previous Auckland Arts Festival, the creators of The Arrival have returned with an exquisitely crafted rhapsody of image and movement-based theatre.
![Movie Review: <i>The Last Exorcism</i>](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Movie Review: <i>The Last Exorcism</i>
Patrick Fabian is a confident leading man in The Last Exorcism.
![Movie Review: <i>Hall Pass</i>](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Movie Review: <i>Hall Pass</i>
After several flops, the Farrelly brothers (There's Something About Mary) try to reclaim their status as kings of the gross-out sex comedy with this scatological outing starring Owen Wilson.
![Arts Festival Review: Lautten Compagney, Handel With Care](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Arts Festival Review: Lautten Compagney, Handel With Care
Programme of tasty morsels served with wonderful flair