Show's aims unclear as it makes enviable return to NZ screens.

Even if you're not a horror fan, you've probably seen a Wes Craven film. Dominic Corry picks his five favourite films from the Scream director.

There was a sense of celebration, marred only by the thudding beats of revivalist worship downstairs. A well-filled Town Hall Concert Chamber hosted an audience keen to welcome home some distinguished young Auckland musicians.

Calum Henderson previews some of the strange new shows screening on Sky TV's new channel, TLC.

Meryl Streep's rock'n'roll dysfunctional family drama makes Mamma Mia look authentic.

Glenfield's most famous export is funny and warm in her show that takes her around the world to talk to the locals about matters of style and beauty,

Many have tried, but few actors have nailed the Kiwi accent. Dominic Corry looks at the successful ones, and some of the failures.

Delaney Davidson is known for blues and country songs tinged with pathos, a wizened understanding of the human condition and a touch of humour.

The film version of a well-regarded stage play, which was itself based on a true story, was always going to be at high risk of being a weepie of cloying sentimentality.

Leaving the theatre after watching this documentary about Carl Boenish, father of the base-jumping movement, I couldn't help but think how far skydivers have pushed the sport.

The zombie drama, which follows some of the last surviving humans in an undead-ravaged America, is by most counts the highest rating cable series of all time.

Can The Walking Dead spin-off capitalise on the zombie franchise's huge success? Chris Schulz checks out the first episode of Fear the Walking Dead, starring our own Cliff Curtis.

By giving physical embodiment to recorded interviews, verbatim theatre creates a remarkably powerful form of communication that is far more intimate than video.

Auckland Museum's auditorium might have been on the European concert circuit this month, hosting two top-notch pianists just weeks apart.

It's a bold call to make murder victim the cruel and deserving villain, but it works, writes Duncan Greive.

Playwright Gary Stalker's intriguingly titled work pulls off a surprising feat with sophisticated, unashamedly literary writing.

The three choreographers contributing state of the art pieces for this ground-breaking season with the New Zealand Dance Company were given the brief of "light, illumination, space, image and movement" by the company's artistic director Shona McCullagh.

The finale of True Detective season two was everything the previous episodes hadn't been. It was exciting, it was tense, most of all, it was coherent.

Humans is a "sci-fi thriller" in the most accessible, engaging sense of those words, set in a parallel near-future where synthetic humans - "synths" - are a common household appliance.

Like every other book of Stephenson's, this one uses formal language to position itself a small, strategic distance from its readers, like a speaker standing behind a lectern.

A grinding, persuasive power binds this collection of short fiction and essays, many of which have been published elsewhere in the past two or three years.

Did you forget about Dre? No one would blame you if you did. The godfather of gangster rap has spent more time making headphones than releasing new music lately.

A mid-winter Messiah comes with a certain olde worlde appeal and on Sunday Viva Voce went to some lengths to make this a Messiah with a difference.

Duncan Greive has a look at TV3's new 7pm offering - Story. So what's the verdict?

When he founded Te Araroa - the national walkway - Geoff Chapple encouraged us to go out and see the extraordinary beauty of this land of the long white cloud.

In Benjamin Markovits' vivid new novel, the city becomes a symptom of America gone wrong. He tells Mick Brown about losing out and fitting in.

So one Direction have made their first musical statement post-Zayn Malik's departure.