Rating: 3/5

Rating: 4/5

Rating: 3.5/5. Verdict: Thriller shoots first then asks existential questions later. For quite some time.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Nicki Greenberg loves Shakespeare, she "gets" Shakespeare, and she has done something wondrous with him, a thing I have never seen done before.

Move over Bridget, it's the blokes' turn.

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

Rating: 4/5

Rating: 3/5

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

The synopsis for Monsters makes it sound like a classic sci-fi flick about an alien invasion on earth, but it is far from it. Dreamy, allegorical and sparse.

The debut feature by Israeli director Maoz is a carnival ride designed by the devil. It's also a film of jaw-dropping mastery which manages, by dint of having no polemical intent at all, to be a powerful anti-war statement.

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.

Graham Reid enjoys going back over the Ardijah catalogue

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.