"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.

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.

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

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?

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

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.

"We're committed to this for quite a long time, so we'll definitely be back," says Auckland City Limits festival organiser Campbell Smith.

Before seeing a preview of this superhero superclash, reviewers were advised multiple times not to put spoilers out into world ...

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.