Viewed from here, where American football remains, for most of us, a curiosity, this film about a doctor who challenged the sports-entertainment industrial complex behind the game is something of a revelation.
"I added a couple of tracks." Did he what! Just two days before the extravagant release of The Life of Pablo, West's tweet revealed the addition of eight extra songs, taking his seventh album from a relatively concise 10 tracks to a whopping 18.
REVIEW: Haters were hoping Max Key would make a dick of himself on his radio debut. Instead, the Prime Minister's son was quietly determined to have a party.
Duncan Greive says TVNZ is serving up cliches.
A Sunday afternoon recital by the Tennant-Austin Duo provided a stylish launch for Auckland's concert year.
The elderly actress said the film was "glorious". Deadpool stars Reynolds as the snarky anti-hero from Marvel Comics.
This Pride Festival cabaret co-directed by Okareka Dance's Taiaroa Royal and Taane Mete is an enjoyable pick'n'mix of 14 diverse pieces, Janet writes.
This intriguing solo Pride show is misleadingly billed as "Real Housewives meets Krishnan's Dairy," Janet writes.
Cast of nine ensure laughs come thick and fast in satire on city's moneyed classes, Paul writes.
There was little about 2001's Zoolander that warranted a sequel, and yet here it is.
When Patricia Highsmith wrote The Price of Salt in 1952, its subject matter was so taboo that she needed to use a pseudonym, Claire Morgan.
Fine lead performances in revival of clasic Lloyd Webber musical help make local production a huge achievement.
TimeOut reviews new albums from Suede, Elton John, Jackie Bristow and Bloc Party.
You could cheat. That's the one downside of a game that includes so many visual puzzles: if you get stuck, they're all readily available and easily accessible online.
You have to wonder how this exchange slipped past Deadpool's financial executives.
In June 1994, Orenthal James Simpson had been a football hero, then a film star and an American icon, one of the most famous and admired men in the country.
TV3's Newshub keeps enough of the old show to still feel familiar, writes Duncan Greive.
Warning: If you missed the book and don't know what the room is in Room, what follows may contain more spoilers than you need.
Chris Pine and Casey Affleck play two real-life US Coast Guard sailors who saved 32 men from a sinking oil tanker off Cape Cod in the winter of 1952.
TimeOut reviews new albums from Rihanna, Panic! At The Disco, Sia and Savages.
On Seven Sharp, they put cinnamon and turmeric root in their coffee. That might explain something, suggests Calum Henderson.
Journalists are constantly exasperated by the depiction of journalism in the movies: crusading reporters who never take notes write their own (very bad) headlines for stories based on hunches, improbable disclosures, lucky breaks and dramatic confrontatio
Chelsea Handler changes tack in new Netflix documentary series that promotes slickness over substance, writes Karl Puschmann.
Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings proved quietly magical in their first Auckland show in more than a decade last night.
Other than starring in David O. Russell films, in recent years seven-time Oscar nominee and two-time winner Robert De Niro has taken to appearing in lightweight films reassuring baby boomers they're relevant, and can still party large.
Predictably and understandably, this film about one of the first known people to undergo a surgical sex change has been criticised for tweaking the historical record and, more sophisticatedly, for its heteronormative approach to a transgender story.
That Dragon, Cancer is an autobiographical game about the life and death of a boy with cancer. Joel, who was diagnosed at age one, died four years later in 2014. He was survived by his parents, Ryan and Amy Green, who made the game.
Calum Henderson reviews new Sunday night crime drama Blindspot that features just as many tattoos as the mid-00s NZ's metal scene.
Girls is back with severely awkward encounters and truly revolting sex scenes. Chris Schulz is watching and loving it. So why is no one else?
Doctor Foster was a treat of a show - and a warning to cheating husbands everywhere, writes Duncan Greive.
Ditching 3News and replacing it with a Newshub might be the best move TV3 has made in a long time, writes Duncan Greive - founding editor of the TV obsessed website The Spinoff.
As all bikies will tell you, it's much more fun on two wheels. But that hasn't been the case in gaming.
With its sharp graphics and punchy racing, this Need For Speed reboot feels like it's had the Fast and the Furious-style makeover it so desperately needs.