You don't need to be familiar with Jojo Moyes' popular novel Me Before You to know what happens in this adaptation.

The Secret, based on a bizarre true story, is both painstakingly paced and a show in a hurry.

COMMENT: We know exactly what to expect - a darkly comic mix of disorganised crime, family melodrama and unabashed Kiwi nostalgia.

The Lang Lang circus came to town, pitching a tent in our most exotic movie palace.

ATC's reboot brings a blast of anarchic energy to the remarkable story of how New Zealand beat the world in granting women the right to vote.

In 2016, it's possible that there is nothing less relevant or sexy than a magician.

With help from the "New Zealand Symphony Orchestra" our comedy stars slay them in New York on opening night.

Wild Things is a celebration for Brown, a celebration of love, good times, newfound clarity, and getting her groove back.

In a brazen one-man performance, Potato Stamp Megalomaniac depicts a real life roller coaster breakdown.

Last year, Janine Jansen filled Auckland Town Hall playing Tchaikovsky with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, her performance melting all but the stoniest of hearts.

The two lead performances are worth the ticket price alone in this rough and tough buddy movie.

Happy Valley is a lot like other crime dramas on the surface, but it takes viewers where few others dare.

He's from Buckinghamshire, she's from Florida, but there's something about the duo that makes them sound like no one else.

Ariana Grande's new album, Dangerous Women, is a step up with its gritty, R&B sound with a dance-pop twist.

The Japanese master of domestic drama, and heir to the tradition of the great Yasujiro Ozu turns in another of his beguilingly simple family stories.

It's a rare artist who can wrap up the past, present and future in one unique package. But that's exactly what Skepta manages to do.

It's not an album without hope and there's plenty of softness and warmth to be found in the fragility and sadness.

The Block is back, but is committing to four nights a week like starting a lengthy prison sentence?

Enso String Quartet still has the freshness and attack that spurred one critic to rationalise the group's smouldering power as half honey and half molten lava.

Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling's 70s crime comedy suggests a Tarantino revival of Jake and the Fatman.

Take a bonkers ride into a bizarre and astonishing world of fringe fetish.

Neeme Jarvi and his Orchestre de la Suisse Romande have been immersing themselves in French music lately, with noteworthy albums of Massenet, Chabrier and Offenbach.

They don't build monuments to critics but this doco about a celebrated L.A. food writer is something to savour.

COMMENT: Who knew bipolar disorder was so damn funny? Not me. But then I'm not a doctor. I can barely diagnose a suitable parking space ...

It's nww surprise these albums by Bob Dylan (who turned 75 yesterday) and Eric Clapton (71) don't have much, if anything, to do with rock.

Emerging in the 1980s, the Blue Man Group is a curious hybrid of neo-Dadaist happenings blended with acid-house video-lighting effects

Like its predecessor, it's a visually stunning and imaginative film, but fails to woo emotionally.

David Farrier climbed into a story you would never buy if it was fiction.

COMMENT: Doco Why Am I? unravels vast findings from Dunedin study following 1000 babies born in 1972.