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.

A Time To Die (Hachette) Tom Wood $34.99 Englishman Wood says he got into the book business "to pen thrillers with the boring bits

Sinfonia Domestica of Richard Strauss offered 44 minutes of uber-romantic immersion in the second half of the NZSO's Mozart & Strauss concert.

The final of the Lexus Song Quest celebrated the competition's 60 years in style.

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.

Drawing on the notoriety of Jack the Ripper, Albert Belz' play Yours Truly uses various theories about who the murderer was.

Review: If you didn't know better, you might think it was a tasteless spoof.

Throughout, the album mixes romance and realism in such a clear-eyed manner that you can't help but be won over.

ATC's celebration of youth theatre has thrown up three plays that coalesce into a wildly energetic, multi-vocal snapchat on what it is like to be young.

Laura McGoldrick and Chris Campbell head to Berkley Cinemas in Mission Bay to see whether the new Ghostbusters remake can live up to the original.

The world premiere of Poi E: The Story of Our Song opened the New Zealand International Festival at the Civic last night to a sell-out

Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra seems happy that Music Director Giordano Bellincampi is back in town, and one sensed it in the first

Maori television's brilliant new drama This Is Piki should be screened daily on mainstream TV, writes Duncan Greive.

This beautifully sung song cycle follows the same unusual format as Brel: two guys and two gals singing songs without an overarching

Sir Andrew Davis prefaced an enthralling Eclairs sur l'au-Dela by saying how privileged he felt to be conducting this Messiaen work for his second and probably last time.

Masks and quick character changes lend vitality and humour to the tragic love story.

Nothing says "a lovely film for kids" like a giant, crotchety old man in a cloak who peeks through windows and steals young orphans