Bird puns abound in the latest transfer from computer game to big screen.

Alienation is a gorgeous isometric twin-stick shooter with elements of Diablo which is engaging, addictive, and great fun.

After a 5 year gap between albums the music remains captivating. And just as anxious and as heartbreaking too.

The Angry Birds Movie exists because the video game franchise has been a phenomenal success since its release in 2010.

Whatever Elba is doing in Bastille Day, at least he does it well, which is more than can be said for many others involved, who struggle with the lacklustre script.

Courtroom drama has a peculiar capacity to grip an audience.

Bramwell Tovey's Time Tracks was a blunt, noisy launch for the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra's Aotearoa Plus, its annual concert of "cutting-edge contemporary".

COMMENT: TVNZ OnDemand's scheduling has reached a new low - but it was always just a matter of time, writes Calum Henderson.

You may have met British chamber choir I Fagioilini at the cinema, in John La Bouchardiere's The Full Monteverdi.

This new movie by Torchlight Films is technically more ambitious than the previous, but something has been lost in the attempt to up the production ante.

Only a really good singer can sing as badly as Meryl Streep does in this charming if conventional biopic of the New York socialite, writes Peter Calder.

COMMENT: Let me put it this way, as a moviemaker Ricky Gervais makes for a great Golden Globes host.

Breaking up with your partner and having a showdown with them at a dinner party is heartbreaking - unless it's Married at First Sight, then it's captivating.

Fans of this comedy sub-genre will know what to expect; a formulaic series of interlinking stories led by a formidable cast of affable A-listers.

It might be the third Captain America movie but this isn't a stand-alone affair like his previous two, writes Russell Baillie.

Aubrey Drake Graham is having some feels. "Please give me time because I'm searching for these words to say to you," he mopes on Redemption.

It's easy to forget that TV3's news division, as well as currently providing the country's best drama, also continues to function on a daily basis.

Auckland gets rowdy on a Sunday night as British metal titans Iron Maiden fly into town. Chris Schulz was there.

The revived Mastermind offered the arcane, tense entertainment of the old show in its first outing hosted by Peter Williams.

Doco about a famed restaurant is as much about social dynamics as flavour dynamics.

COMMENT: If you've ever wondered how in real life a chump like Donald Trump got to be standing anywhere near the precipice of world power, tune into Veep.

One Prince has fallen already this April, but the Prince of Darkness and his closest comrades are marching on to a fate of their choosing.

REVIEW: You'll recognise characters and remember scenarios that long ago made you fall in love with your PS2.

This is a mighty, mountainous metal album, and if it really is the last we hear of Beastwars, it's a hell of a way to say goodbye.

British ski jumping Olympian Michael Edwards maintains little of the material is factual in this comedic biopic about his heartwarming rise to fame.

In a better world a film about Mavis Staples should represent her prime time, however in this inspiring documentary she is 76.

If there's one thing the queen of pop proves with the release of Lemonade, it's that she knows how to get people talking.

You could tell as soon he greeted the maitre d' with "hey mate" that Corbin was the Kiwi on the first episode of First Dates Australia.

This afternoon on NZ Herald Focus - Huge wins for Donald and Trump Hillary Clinton as they get a step closer to being their party's nomination for the Whitehouse. Also A body has been found in a car which crashed and submerged in a Hamilton stream and why you will no longer be issued paper speeding tickets at the roadside.