Rating: 2/5 Verdict: Clumsy Remake

What it lacks in emotion and inspiration, it makes up for in lovely scenery and chick flick escapism, writes Francesca Rudkin.

Rating: 3/5. Verdict: Good vibes from the country's hardest working reggae outfit

Heavy metal legends Metallica rocked Auckland's Vector Arena last night in the first of two sold out gigs.

Rating: 4/5 Verdict: Fraser stretches out on ambitious third outing.

Put on trial and found wanting.

She belies the conceit that readers only want primary characters who are likeable.

Rating: 3/5 Verdict: Ocker owls go beak to beak

Rating: 4/5 Verdict: Unassuming local charmer

Portraits of loneliness.

Confusion compels in Balkans.

Kate Atkinson began as a prize-winning literary novelist with Behind the Scenes At The Museum and has reinvented herself by using the tropes of detective fiction.

This candid documentary reveals a dark side of the glamour industry.

The 1969 album Bitches Brew was where Miles Davis and jazz parted ways, writes Graham Reid.

When a cop arrives at the door of missing persons specialist Diane Rowe to tell her a body found that morning was someone she knew, she is stunned - like anyone would be.

Rating: 4/5
Verdict: A pop debut that would better suit the title Moodiness

Rating: 3/5
Verdict: Stadium rock from the latest Shore boy rock band