A man with a bomb for a head cradling a baby. A human puppet controlled by chains. A war machine coming apart at the seams. And a cartoon rocket smiling as it drops bombs disguised as teeth.

The promos aired for weeks, showing people - some short, some disfigured, some in wheelchairs - all united by their desire to find love.

This miniature portrait of a girl running away from her troubled mother evokes a lot of short words. Red Leap Theatre's Dust Pilgrim opens in a bleak desert dystopia.

Creepy and strange goings-on in new mystery/thriller series keep the cliffhangers coming for Karl Puschmann.

Here's a recent headline from the New York Post: "A$AP Rocky had three acid-fuelled orgies at SXSW."

Ever since Jerry Maguire showed him the money, Cameron Crowe has had a hard time making movies that stick.

Can the Entourage movie rise above being mere fan service? Or does it risk becoming another Sex and the City 2? Chris Schulz finds out.

As the cast go about their work it is clear that Hamlet is in the hands of seasoned professionals deeply committed to their craft and passionate in their engagement with Shakespeare’s language.

Australian electronic duo Hermitude mix synth keys, deep bass and drums to create the sound of their fifth studio album, Dark Night Sweet Light.

Five Game of Thrones fans share their thoughts on season five's eighth episode, Hardhome.

Even by reality TV standards it seems a thin concept: take 10 public figures in varying stages of decline or repose, and see if any of them can learn to dance.

Death and the Maiden steers away from specific political considerations and takes on the more difficult issue of how to respond to the dehumanising effects of sanctioned cruelty.

There are many different forms of Enlightenment and in the hands of award-winning British playwright Shelagh Stephenson it becomes a cool, sophisticated piece of theatre.

William dart writes: Director Lindy Hume described Rossini as a genius who didn't muck around. Nor has she with her vivid take on his 1817 fairytale La Cenerentola.

Westside arrived on our screens, not just offering a promising start to this six-part encore to Outrageous Fortune, but yet more evidence of global warming.

There's nothing to make you yearn for the good ol' days of music quite like a 19-piece jazz orchestra.

Overshadowed by other seismic shifts in our TV landscape, Maori TV recently debuted local Friday-night comedies Brown Eye and Find Me a Maori Bride.

French director Anne Fontaine talks to Dominic Corry about her new film, Gemma Bovery.

Four Game of Thrones fans share their thoughts on season five's seventh episode, The Gift.

This doco, made and heavily branded by the V&A, is likely to be as close as fans here will get to it without an airfare.

Poltergeist 2015 is a faithful tribute, produced with an eye to introducing the Steven Spielberg-produced original - and the phrase "they're here" - to a new audience.

It's worth being reminded, by this semi-fictionalised oral history, how unbelievably insolent and sordid "Underwatergate" was.

She's So Rad are a duo with wonderful musicality.

Five Game of Thrones fanatics - Russell Baillie, Karl Puschmann, Cameron McMillan, Chris Schulz and Robert Smith - share their thoughts on season five's sixth episode, Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken.