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.

On this afternoon's NZ Herald Focus we have the latest on a Wellington daylight bank robbery and we meet Timmy and Tux - two very cool little penguins who have formed a special bond in rehab.

Guess who's back? Yes, Game of Thrones pulled a swifty on fans but at least the latest episode came with plenty to be impressed by.

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.

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.

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

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.

On the program today we’re with Olympic athletes at a dawn service in Auckland as they celebrate 100 days til the Rio games, our man in Wellington, Isaac Davison gives us the lowdown on John Key’s abrupt about turn on foreign buyers investing in homes here. Also we tell you why Alexander McQueen is in hot water over Kate Middleton’s wedding dress

It was distressing to see so many empty seats at the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra's Spirit of Anzac concert.

For a brief moment, as the crayfishers' boat bobbed on the rough waters of the Dusky Sound, I felt seasick. I wasn't even on the boat.

In this, the sixth in Jeffrey Archer's Clifton Chronicles, the master story teller continues the saga of the triumphs and tribulations of the Clifton and Barrington families.

Evocative animated account gives us a new way to commemorate Gallipoli.

COMMENT: I must begin with an unsavoury admission. I have spent the past week listening to exotic and provocatively suggestive words of a botanical nature.

This afternoon on NZ Herald Focus - the latest on the shooting of a Police dog and officer injured in Porirua, we look at why Pop superstar Prince was widely acclaimed as one of the most inventive musicians of his era and This is the horrifying moment a freak tornado sweeps a child into the air

After her terrific war-themed Let England Shake of 2011, PJ Harvey is still contemplating the big, bad world and attempting to portray it in song.

This movies has a satirical take on life as a war correspondent and requires Fey to move through gears from serious to funny and absurd.

Any concern that Disney has messed with Rudyard Kipling's classic tale with this live action remake are dispelled just by the trailer.

But to the extent that Deschamps' film tells us anything about the food, it does so only in the style of a corporate video that seems close to a puff piece.

Today in NZ Herald Focus we are in New York for the crucial results in the crucial New York Primary. Queen Elizabeth, Britain’s longest running Monarch is celebrating her 90th birthday and does the biggest All Black fan live in Spain?

British comedy You're Back in the Room is set to get a Kiwi remake later this year. But based on the original, Calum Henderson wonders why we are bothering.

By the standards of present-day "Back-to-Baroquers", Mendelssohn was a musical meddler.