Arrival does have moments of story daftness, however, Adams' performance as Dr Louise Banks is terrific.

When Ronald Brautigam recorded Mozart's C minor Piano Concerto five years ago, he used a fortepiano; on Friday night, playing a modern

The Light Between Oceans, directed by Ryan Gosling fanboy Derek Cianfrance (Place Beyond the Pines, Blue Valentine) is the latest

Shapeshifter celebrated the release of their sixth studio album inside a cosmic cube atop of the Auckland Museum.

Wild, rhetorical and witty painting - Dick Frizzell show proves why he's one of our best painters.

Schubert's Piano Trios are exquisitely caught in the palette of their times.

It's difficult to decide exactly when Schoolboy Q's Auckland show last night went from turnt to, well, a little terrifying.

Young and dazzlingly talented APO Composer-in-Residence delivers.

REVIEW: Mel Gibson will be hoping that Hacksaw Ridge can reset the bones of a broken career.

Don Juan is an energetic, irrepressibly gleeful and good-natured evening out.

Auckland Choral came up with an eye-catching Caspar David Friedrich image for the programme booklet of Saturday night's Hymn of Praise concert.

Welcome to New Zealand, Daniel Blake, you couldn't have come at a better time.

Tchaikovsky, Piano Concerto No.2 & Concert Fantasia is a superb symphonic adventure from the New Zealand Symphony.

Sea calmly meets sky in Stanley Palmer's mature and masterly images.

Author Jay McInerney's old-fashioned belief that Love and Art can defy both time and money is to be applauded.

Conductor Giordano Bellincampi ensured an exhilarating night with the APO.

COMMENT: Thanks to Insecure and Atlanta, each are quietly revolutionary the idea of African American sitcoms.

Oh good. Another rich prick gets a cape and a suit. Wait, come back. This isn't that sort of superhero movie.

After two hours of hollering bruising, demonic anthems, Slipknot's frontman finally showed his true emotions.

Auckland Shakespeare Company's Lucrece confronts the way rape debases our humanity.

Real-life experiences depicted with humour, intensity and relevance.

Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's Final Symphony was a marketing triumph, selling out its first performance and occasioning a Saturday night re-run.

It's getting harder and harder to do new things with horror.

As a spoof or spy movie, you have to say this about Keeping up with the Joneses - it sure can't keep up with those Smiths.

Soprano's star status guarantees local release.

TJ McNamara finds an exhibition which breaks the mould of an artist's former works

If Shideh wasn't already feeling demonised enough. She's a liberal-minded woman living in Tehran during the final years of the 1980s Iraq-Iran war.

British actor Guy Masterson shows why he is a master of solo performances.

Opera double-bill is a refreshing reminder of the art form's rich potential.

Usually, I prefer the offensive type of comic but McIntyre performed a fairly wholesome set at no one's expense and with just as many laughs.