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Movie Review: Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
Rating: 3/5 Verdict: Ocker owls go beak to beak
Album Review: Doric String Quartet <i>Korngold: The String Quartets</i>
Rating: 5/5 Verdict: English Quartet superb exploring the chamber music of Hollywood Kapellmeister
Book Review: <i>Started Early, Took My Dog</i>
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.
Movie Review: <i>Picture Me</i>
This candid documentary reveals a dark side of the glamour industry.
Album Review: Miles Davis <i>Bitches Brew Legacy Edition</i>
The 1969 album Bitches Brew was where Miles Davis and jazz parted ways, writes Graham Reid.
Book Review: <i>Surrender</i>
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.
Album Review: Hurts <i>Happiness</i>
Rating: 4/5
Verdict: A pop debut that would better suit the title Moodiness
Album Review: The Earlybirds <i>Favourite Fears</i>
Rating: 3/5
Verdict: Stadium rock from the latest Shore boy rock band
Album Review: Concord Dawn <i>The Enemy Within</i>
Rating: 3/5
Verdict: More drum 'n' bass for your head and legs, man
Movie Review: Charlie St Cloud
Rating: 3/5
Verdict: Efron's looks hold this sob-inducing melodrama together
Movie Review: The Last Airbender 3D
Rating: 3/5
Verdict: Great story, but the execution is on the clunky side.
Album Review: Various <i>Rhythms Del Mundo</i>
Rating: 2/5 Verdict: The cause remains the same but the songs...
Album Review: Philip Selway <i>Familial</i>
Rating: 4/5 Verdict: Alt-rock drummer in sensitive solo album shock
Album Review: Linkin Park <i>A Thousand Suns</i>
Rating: 3/5 Verdict: Rap rockers ambitious gamble kind of pays off
Book Review: <i>Our kind of traitor</i>
John le Carre takes the reader into the vicious underside of the global free market.
Concert Review: Auckland Chamber Orchestra
Audience treated to substantial if sombre quartet inspired by people and places.