If you liked the arched eyebrow of the dowager countess at Downton Abbey, you just have to get a load of this.

Prince wasn't the only purple-obsessed performer in town last night.

Prince showed he had more rhythm in his little finger than most humans during his last NZ concerts.

Death Cab For Cutie have been around the block since the 90s and yet this is only the band's second time performing in New Zealand and their first time in Auckland - needless to say, their long time fans were delighted to finally be seeing them.

Depending on your appetite for DIY, Our First Home is either the connoisseur's Block NZ or merely The Block NZ with all the boring bits left in.

The Bard's complex meditation on the power of love sparkles into life on a bare stage of compelling physical intimacy.

The Pop-up Globe's Twelfth Night gives an idea of the atmosphere at the original Globe Theatre over 400 years ago.

Director Christian Ditter has already tackled rom-coms with British film Love, Rosie, but in How to Be Single he goes from riffing on one relationship to wrangling a clutch of them, with the ensemble piece getting the better of him.

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.

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.