No Man's Sky is a true sandbox game. Like actual real life space, it's overwhelming in scale, but endlessly intriguing.

They're attempting to push their graphic novel style to deliver their most impressive game yet, with engaging dialogue and impressive action sequences.

The 12th and latest film to be based on a novel by the austere doyen of espionage fiction, John le Carre, may be the least satisfying ever.

The New Zealand String Quartet has a distinguished track record on disc, balancing homegrown with international repertoire. Its latest

Mendelssohn's Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage has always seemed a poor cousin to his more popular Hebrides Overture, despite its literary

The Shallows is is a B-movie hoot big on suspense and curiously low on gore.

There are some similarities in these two provocative tales of sexual tension by talented young New Zealand playwrights.

In the space of a week, two characters in different TV One comedies have innocently mistaken a vibrator for a kitchen utensil.

The intimacy of Auckland Museum's auditorium must have appealed to Javier Perianes, introducing his Fazioli recital as more of a family concert.

TJ McNamara checks out new exhibitions from Elliot Collins and Daniel Crooks

Few games let you pause, sit silently while surrounded by sunfish and seaweed, and meditate.

Tonight's second instalment of Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's Degenerate, Denounced, Outrageous series was always going to be the

With a finely woven blend of song and interview fragments Australian John Waters takes us inside Lennon's glass onion.

If you're after a cheap laugh you'll get one here, but these fabulous ladies are better off sticking to the television screen.

The weapon in this gripping and gruesome punk rock horror-thriller are many and various.

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HEALR is an intriguing exploration of the concept of wellbeing in 2016. Created and performed by leading dance independents, Rose

NZME's Head of Entertainment Joanna Hunkin and NZH Focus's very own sweetie darling Laura McGoldrick, delve into the new Ab Fab movie in style.

It was cheering that the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra opened its latest concert with an indisputable Strauss masterpiece.

Melodrama falls a little flat on debut but theatre company shows potential.

Plopping the beloved characters from the riotous 90s British sitcom in 2016, drizzling them in Champagne and celebrity cameos, and seeing what comes out the other side.

COMMENT: I've loved the Harry Potter series and J.K. Rowling for over 10 years, but now, for the first time, I feel disappointed with her - and it hurts.

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.