Grieve: Dating show puts real in reality
COMMENT: The fact "reality TV isn't real" still gets regular play as a Big Reveal is one of the best running jokes in our media.
COMMENT: The fact "reality TV isn't real" still gets regular play as a Big Reveal is one of the best running jokes in our media.
COMMENT: I hate to be the bearer of bad news but I need to tell you that the world is coming to an end. Sorry to bum out your Friday.
Five supervillains walk into a bar. The movie they're in pretty much stops. No, there's no punchline.
REVIEW: Never have I sat in a movie theatre and felt more of a sense of pride than when I saw this film.
It's been slammed by critics everywhere, but surely there must be some ray of light in this big budget Hollywood Blockbuster? Laura McGoldrick took Chris Campbell along to see if they could fill in the cracks.
This small and absorbing Icelandic film is much more affecting than its modest ambitions may seem to promise.
By allowing the audience to decide how much they will pay for the show, Free Happiness poses a challenge that doubles as an attractive, if somewhat risky, marketing ploy.
COMMENT: The sisters' honesty and openness helps set Kitchen Diplomacy apart from the countless other travel and cooking shows on television.
Audiences have become accustomed to the seemingly inevitable triumph of Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's annual Opera in Concert.
Nicky Spence's impassioned performance of Andre Caplet's 1917 song-cycle, Les Prieres inevitably takes on new resonances, after an
The fine city of Toulouse, on the river Garonne, has an air of Italy about it. It is immensely proud of its Capitole, the long neo-classical
Macklemore is on a mission to use his voice for good.
Wednesday night's installment of A Woman's Place, presented a particularly rose-tinted view of life inside Gloriavale.
Review: This latest one takes what made the original Bournetrilogy special and squanders it with a hackneyed story of revenge and cyber surveillance.
Join Sarah Gandy and Laura McGoldrick in wrapping up this weeks music news.
For what should be a simple exercise in soundtrack cash-ins, the Ghostbusters OST sure makes a mess of things.
Aaradhna's been through a lot and on Brown Girl she's intent on telling you all about it.
COMMENT: I was surprised at the news of the renewal of Filthy Rich, as I was far from the only critic to find the show a dated, horny mess.
Sinfonia Domestica of Richard Strauss offered 44 minutes of uber-romantic immersion in the second half of the NZSO's Mozart & Strauss concert.
The story's 15-year-old detective suffers from acute Asperger's syndrome and his weirdly distorted perspective on life proves to be deeply revealing.
Australian producer Flume captivated a sellout crowd in Auckland, with dazzling visuals and beats that more than lived up to the hype.
Mostly we see a terrified young man, staring down the barrel of an uncertain future. And six more hours spent transfixed on the couch.
Breakfast is a weird mix of light hearted trivia and hard-hitting news, and one TV critic believes it desperately needs a makeover.
Demolition has a great cast but a strange mix of drama and comedy that strangles this film.
Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's major 2016 commission, a sixth symphony by Ross Harris, was the musical and emotional core of Thursday's
Billy Crystal and an almost full ASB Theatre enjoyed a hugely satisfying mutual love affair on Thursday night.
The Cure delivered three hours of hit songs and obscure classics, delighting Kiwi fans at Auckland's Vector Arena.
A new TV series on Boomers and their lovely homes feels wrong amid the housing crisis they helped cause, says one TV critic.
This Australian drama is more affecting than its unattractive title and contrived set-up promised, thanks to LaPaglia.
Despite some solid leads, the new Star Trek films winds up being just a bit silly.