Sunset Song is a gorgeous slice of poetic realism which is as cruel and harsh as it is beautiful and lyrical.

There's little memorable about Trolls, but you got to hand it to these weirdly happy people - they sure know how to put a smile on a kid's face.

COMMENT: 3% it is a low-budget dystopian sci-fi Netflix series from Brazil, and it is dangerously binge-watchable.

I'll admit that The Founder, the story of the birth of McDonald's, is a little harder to swallow than a cheeseburger and fries. The

Briefs is perfect pre-Christmas cabaret for grown-ups.

The only problem with Pavel Kolesnikov's splendid new Chopin collection is that one would have liked the Russian pianist to have recorded

Allied's strong sense of déjà vu sure makes it look nice. But it sure doesn't help make it a great film.

Infinite Warfare is a decent shooter, but with other titles like Titanfall 2 and Battlefield 1 out there, it might not be worth your time.

Pitch-perfect TV is rare but The Fall and Quarry come close

Duncan Grieve reviews docudrama Pike River, praising its unflinching look into the tragedy surrounding the event.

The Founder is a bland movie which becomes less great American business saga, than a mildly engaging, mildly uncomplimentary Kroc biopic.

Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's final town hall concert was a grand occasion with a near capacity audience warmly applauded by CEO

This successful, uber-stylish nightclub musical from Wellington's Tawata Productions feels like a dreamy album-length live music video.

There is an eerie prescience in the decision to stage Vernon God Little just as America succumbs to the belief that the frontman for

Crazy found-footage thriller Operation Avalanche has arrived just in time for the supermoon rising over the country, keeping us all

The echoes of the Dunedin sound debate have faded with the decades but a new book hears them reverberating louder.

Feeling like you're missing out on who's who and what's what? Here's a wrap of some of the albums you may have missed lately.

One Psalm inspires fascinating and individual responses from three composers.

Moon landing hoaxsters will undoubtedly be very happy with Operation Avalanche.

War on Everyone is a film that is remarkably tone deaf and quite awful.

In his 20th film, Spanish director Pedro Almodovar drops the farcical approach of his last, I'm So Excited!, and the chilling tone

"It is exactly what you expect - which is both fulfilling and disappointing at the same time" - here's why.

Reviewing NZTrio's Flare concert, it's difficult to resist an easy pun, as this pairing of top-class ensemble with celebrated Kiwi heldentenor showed commendable flair.

A good season for Auckland Museum's Fazioli International Piano Recital series saw all seats sold for Philip Fowke's closing concert

Absurdist comedy will confirm your wildest fears about the way the world is going.

Keeping up with film releases can sometimes feel like the entertainment selection on a long-haul flight. Every movie starts to blur

Three of the year's best classical albums vie for the Vodafone NZ Music awards vote.

Clay breaks new ground in ceramics show.

Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra "settles the score".

Following 2014's acclaimed Love Is Strange, Little Men is another very New York story with real estate concerns from director-writer Ira Sachs.