U2 last night paid tribute to the victims of the Pike River mine disaster. Scott Kara was there

Rating: 4/5. Verdict: This character just don't care.

Rating: 1/5. Verdict: If cream rises, this sinks like a lead samosa.

Rating: 4/5. Verdict: Barely there beauty.

Rating: 3/5. Verdict: The difficult instalment from the arthouse favourite.

Talk about a guilty pleasure. It's nasty, nonsensical and further evidence for the case that Robert De Niro will say yes to most anything these days.

Swedish director Tomas Alfredson's macabre romance Let the Right One In was an artful, unique, deeply disturbing and yet touching vampire film. Unexpectedly, so too is director Matt Reeves' Hollywood remake Let Me In.

David Hill reviews two new Australian novels depicting two very different sides of modern life.

It is a tricky little bugger of a book this one. Distant, confusing and perhaps a little cliched in parts, it is also compelling, subtle and maybe even brilliant.

Judge not a book by its title.

Rating: 5/5

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Rating: 3/5

The book that has everything, Kehua! offers murder, adultery, incest (and plenty of it), redemption and ghosts.

LOCALS: Alix Bushnell is one of a strong raft of characters in Mataraki.

Graham Reid enjoys going back over the Ardijah catalogue

Scott Kara review the reigning R'n'B queen's latest album.

Word is that a campervan trip around NZ in 2009 and appearing at Neil Finn's 7 Worlds Collide reinvigorated Scottish singer Tunstall who leapt to fame overnight on a Jools Holland show six years ago.

With this review I want to declare two biases. I am a big fan of Laurence Fearnley’s writing and particularly loved Edwin + Matilda.

Gender politics divide and rule as Celebrity Apprentice kicks off this Tuesday. By Deborah Hill Cone.

Master director David Fincher (Fight Club, The Game) mines big drama out of the origins of Facebook in this entertaining zeitgeist-grabber.

Let's cut to the chase: this conspiracy thriller, an adaptation of bestselling novel The Ghost, is a thinly-veiled attack on Tony Blair by The Observer's onetime political editor Robert Harris.

If you can make it through the outdated cheesy intro - presumably Cee Lo Green taking the mickey out of the smooth soul greetings of the 70s - The Lady Killer is worth listening to.

Antony Hegarty is one of the most mesmerising and electrifying artists of the past decade. The Mercury Award-winner's fourth studio offering, Swanlights, rips holes in your soul.

Prolific British television writer/director Stephen Poliakoff (The Lost Prince) is behind this sumptuous thriller set at the beginning of World War II.