An all-star cast brings The Jungle Book reboot to life, but the new Mowgli is the standout.

Two attractive new releases feature Valencia, alongside Katherine Austin, mining the repertoire for cello and piano, both substantial and stocking-filler.

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.

Roger Hall's collaboration with British singer songwriter Peter Skellern throws up an entertaining confection celebrating the joys and hazards of grandparenting.

The only thing worse than watching a beloved character die is having to wait until October to find out who the heck it was.

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.

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.

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?

No subject is off-limits in Dawn French's stage show Thirty Million Minutes, which tackles even the most harrowing of topics with charm and good humour.

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.