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.

The Pumphouse celebrates 20 years of presenting Shakespeare with an ambitious double-header that traverses the extreme poles of the Bard's art.

The director's latest may namecheck Auckland, where it premiered last night, but his new Western is short on wit and long on brutality.

It's hardly surprising that stories of immigrants to the Land of the Free have such a proud cinematic history: the immigrant experience has everything - risk, longing, regret, hope, danger - that makes for great drama.

If you're looking for a sweet family film to entertain the younger kids these holidays, Oddball will do the trick.

Carey Mulligan stars in a riveting true story about the struggle for women's emancipation.

If you're planning on seeing Kate Tempest live anytime soon, be prepared to be hit by an avalanche of words.

If you want to get a sense of exactly how big Six60 have become, last night's concert at Villa Maria was a pretty strong statement.

Netflix doco shows investigative journalism at its compelling best, writes Duncan Greive.

The pall of Bowie's unexpected death now hangs over this exceptional album, bringing an element of tragedy to it that, just last week when it was released, wasn't there.

'King Push,' 'Push-a-ton' and 'El Presidente'. There are many names Pusha T goes by, but perhaps the most fitting is, 'Greatest Rapper Alive'.

Despite a few hit-and-miss moments, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler prove yet again to be a dynamic duo, Francesca writes.

When the promoters behind AC/DC announced they were bringing the show to New Zealand, they wanted to stress a point - these days, AC/DC is not a rock show.

Last night's Shortland Street finale was an eruption of bloodshed dominated by a hostage crisis and punctuated with a whodunnit, writes Duncan Greive.

They were spontaneously whooping, smiling, talking too fast, unable to stop jiggling on the spot.

The strength of this show was the ongoing miracle of Silver Bullets, the Phillipps band's first proper album in nearly 20 years and the lively delivery its songs got from him and his 21st century line-up.

Ed Sheeran upsized to Mt Smart Stadium for his latest NZ concert, where close to 50,000 fans watched him play a two-hour set last night.

I am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story plays like an extended promo, washed with a score of elevator-music strings, and composed of so many talking-head snatches that it often feels like a trailer for itself.

The future of television, we've been hearing for ages now, is online.

STEVE BRAUNIAS' THE BLOCK FINALE REVIEW: Cat and Jeremy, not Brooke and Mitch, deserved to win - they are a true reflection of New Zealand.

Tools down. This week The Block NZ: Villa Wars marked the end of the build, the final bang of the hammer, the last creak of Cat's croak.

Dominic Corry looks at five films based on survival at sea.