It's a risky ambition to tackle the meaning of love - how we find it, how it changes us and how it feels to have loved and to have lost.

Mahler's Third Symphony was the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra's spectacular contribution to the 2009 Auckland Arts Festival.

'Wilderpeople' is a truly unique film that could only be made in New Zealand, and may be our best yet.

COMMENT: Now that Girls is focusing more on the bits that matter and less on the bits that don't it's finally begun to come of age.

Fair Go has found its teeth, but lost its studio, in an odd start to the show's 40th year, writes Calum Henderson.

The sport's biggest stars, Ronda Rousey and Conor McGregor, grace the cover of UFC 2 after both suffering defeats in their most recent fights.

Mind of Mine may suffer from this lack of variety, but Malik pulls off his transformation into a brooding, tattooed loverman.

This Flaxworks production mentions the boyfriends but ignores the image, and instead presents a girlish Jean, enthusiastic and sweet.

So - was Celebrity Family Feud cross-promotional heaven or hell, asks Duncan Greive.

These days Steve Earle is a frequent visitor to New Zealand - he's a keen trout fisherman - and, of course, in today's music world

Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy brought his other band to town for a show that delivered low-key magic.

The beginning of Beach Boys composer Brian Wilson's world tour had some shaky moments but delivered an enjoyable track-by-track performance of the band's classic album, Pet Sounds.

Magdalena Kozena's new Monteverdi album makes one realise why Leo Schrade titled his 1930 study of the Italian, Monteverdi: Creator of Modern Music.

As far as online shooters go, GW2 is possibly the quirkiest.

Third time around and you may think the gag about a bumbling panda being a Kung Fu master is wearing thin, but no, Po is as entertaining as ever.

Now there's this, an Iggy Pop album that sounds like Iggy at his best - which is that late-70s Idiot/Lust for Life period of Bowie patronage.

This is the show that all the palagi uncles go to. I went with my Uncle Derek, and we unexpectedly ran into my Dad and my Uncle Ken. They all seemed to be enjoying the Monty Python nostalgia. Especially the Fish Dance.

While Duke still boasts a "male-skewed" lineup of action movies and extreme sports there are encouraging early signs that it might not be nearly as bad as it first seemed.

The band at the centre of the Paris terror attacks played an Auckland show last night, as news of the Brussels attacks spread.

There's L'orchestre d'hommes-orchestres of Quebec. They are not a Tom Waits tribute band. But they do play his songs live on stage.

In 2000, Uri Caine's bold transformation of Bach's Goldberg Variations into a vibrant encyclopedia of styles blew welcome raspberries into complacent ears.

This American film starts off as as swords and sandals detective story, with Jesus the missing person, before defaulting to a hollow gospel drama.

REVIEW: The rapper isn't blessed with a booming voice. His songs aren't full of trap bass and Auto-Tuned vocals. All he has is his words. And that's all he needs.

Elena Langer is an accomplished teller of tales, a gift that has drawn the Russian-born British composer more than once to the operatic stage.

COMMENT: Netflix's true diabolical genius lies in the decision to begin playing the following episode before the one you're currently watching has finished.

All that hype. All that expectation. All those delays. All that face paint. For a food salvage operation?

Producer J.J. Abrams sure knows how to release a film. In 2007, he launched a mysterious trailer for an unnamed sci-fi film at a Transformers screening, creating a buzz that saw Cloverfield, as it was soon to be known, collect just over US$170 million.