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.

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?

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.

Newsreaders could learn something from summer shows, says Calum Henderson.

The Big Short is equal parts goofy crime caper and cold-blooded rage against the machine that created the Global Financial Crisis.

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.