Unlike most Deftones albums, Gore kicks off not with a snotty ball of rage, but with a bit of a whimper.

There's a point early in Dark Souls III where an angry tree bashes you to death with a branch while firing murderous magic skulls at you in a poison swamp.

Married At First Sight quickly turned into Regret At First Sight, when one of the fellas laid eyes on his new wife for the first time and thought: "Nup".

Melissa McCarthy has been hilarious in the Paul Feig directed films Spy and Bridesmaids. And her character in The Boss shows the same aptitude for physical comedy, profanity and forwardness. Only this time, it's not so funny.

By general consensus, Barack Obama has authorised about 10 times as many drone attacks as his predecessor; the death toll from drone strikes is now higher than that of 9/11 and many of the dead have been innocent civilians, including women and children.

Fear the Walking Dead's second season premiere just jumped the zombie shark, writes Chris Schulz.

The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and Edo de Waart's second selection of masterworks on Saturday rewarded a well-filled town hall with music that strayed for only eight minutes from the Teutonic straight and narrow.

Fleetwood Mac's drummer one of the surprise guests for show at vintage suburban theatre ...

COMMENT: The Ranch wants to pull on your heartstrings but it also wants to insult you and stick its hand up your privates, writes Karl Puschmann.

There was plenty of noise in the studio during the recording of the Sacramento rockers' latest album.

Dating's cheating. Here are five reasons why Married at First Sight is better than The Bachelor.

From the reggae-rock punch of the title track to the closing caress of the lullaby-soul Dream, this is an album Smith is running on best instincts.

Slow down. Take a minute. Hit pause. Just chill. That's exactly what Quantum Break asks you to do. Frequently.

"We are comfortable with the direction we went" says The Walking Dead's executive producer after fans complain about season six's cliffhanger finale.

When you watch Sherpa you have an advantage over the documentary film-makers who shot it: they never knew what was coming.

Snow White and the Huntsman from 2012 was a visually stunning but ponderous fantasy drama, best known for the real-life adulterous tryst between director Rupert Sanders and his Snow White, Kristen Stewart.

This may be yet another animated animal movie, but, though it has its share of adorable furry characters, there's a lot more to this cartoon crime caper.

When it arrived last year, One's Kiwi Living felt more like a special kind of Kiwi purgatory, demanding viewers follow its bourgeois trends in order to attain holiness.

The veteran American singer-songwriter's Auckland show didn't just cater to his older fanbase.

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

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.

'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.

The runaway local success of Boy sure made it a hard act to follow. Could a local film ever hope to find as big an audience again? Could its creator, Taika Waititi, ever hope to tap a nation's funnybone with such precision in another film?