Rating: 5/5 Verdict: Forget the hype. It's real.

Rating: 3/5 Verdict: Uneven outing from a soulful voice

Rating: 4/5
Verdict: A great looking film with a rock'n'roll vibe.

Rating: 3/5 Verdict: Teen action flick deals with life and death themes

Rating: 3/5 Verdict: Gorgeous and overwrought

Rating: 4/5 Verdict: Doomsday message from the space age

Rating: 4/5 Verdict: Enigmatic, playful, dazzlingly

Jonathan Franzen, the literary great who delivered award-winning novel The Corrections, reappears after nine years with a new taste of Freedom.

British author Louis de Bernieres has set most of his stories in exotic places, but now, in this interlinked collection of short stories, he explores the exoticism to be found on his home turf.

This is the Father's Day gift you've been looking for if your Dad looked like a member of the Phoenix Foundation back in the 70s.

Rating: 5/5 Verdict: TrinityRoots are back, but not in a bad way

American pop genius of the 1960s redoes Amierican pop genius of the 1920-30s, complete with Wilson completing two unfinished Gershwin songs.

Local folkie Flip Grater may hide behind a thick fringe, but she doesn't let anything shroud her hurt feelings.

Who knew music could smell so sweet?

Too much homage, too few laughs.

Weird and minimal electronic intrigue.

Raunchy, but still sweet and charming light entertainment

Sly's action comeback big, dumb but not enough fun.

Paula Byrne says she set out to write this book to redress what she believes is the misrepresentation of Evelyn Waugh as "a snob and curmudgeonly misanthropist".

Hilary Thayer Hamann's novel, Anthropology of an American Girl, has been heralded as both the hottest book on the block and as the worst novel ever.

It's too much of a good thing as cooking shows take over the small screen, writes Sarah Lang

Sex & Stravinsky proved to be perhaps her most difficult book yet

As much as this crass, initially hilarious, gorefest of a film actually manages to make you care about some of the characters, it's basically on the side of the fish.

Seasoned singer-songwriter, cancer survivor and Cougar Town guest star Crow opts for a retro-soul makeover on her latest.

It sure sounds like his forthcoming Mission Estate show isn't going to be quite as much fun out front as the Police reunion tour.

The heart-in-mouth blindfold game of subterranean cat and mouse that was tunnel warfare is inflected with a broad Australian twang in this extremely creditable based-on-fact World War I drama.