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Is this NZ's best music show?
Calum Henderson watched Good Morning every day for a week, and recorded every joyful moment of the bizarre lifestyle show.
Karl Puschmann: Are the new X Factor judges any good?
Like it or not this season of The X Factor has created New Zealand television history. How the hell do you follow that up?
Rebecca Barry Hill: The Bachelor - hooked by the scent of a woman
Cringe. That was the prevailing sensation throughout the first episode of The Bachelor New Zealand.
Movie review: Insurgent
Following The Hunger Games was always going to be tough for the Divergent series, another young adult novel series set in a dystopian world.
Auckland Arts Festival review: iTMOi
A tormented shriek, a sudden drop into darkness and a tall figure in robes emerges from the shadows, ranting.
Movie review: Home
Looking for light, cheerful entertainment for the littlies these holidays? Meet Home, the latest animated family film from DreamWorks Animation.
Movie review: X+Y
A loss of focus turns this small English feature from an excellent film into a routine and mediocre one about half-way through, but its opening reels have touches of understated genius about them and it is full of undeniably moving moments.
Album review: Anthonie Tonnon, Successor
Successor is still an album mostly recorded by a band, still combines adventurous guitar sounds and keen drumming with elegant melodies and winsome lyrical ideas, and is still one of the most memorable albums you'll hear this year.
Six60 change direction on new album
"This is for the world" is the first thing you'll hear on Six60's new record, as front man Matiu Walters makes the band's ambitions clear from the start.
Review: Bravo Figaro!, Q Theatre
This simply staged one-man show makes for an easy, funny and extraordinarily entertaining night out.
Review: Aroha/Ahava, Te Uru
Te Uru is an attractive venue for music, especially in the more informal space of the gallery's workshop, with the ambience of Titirangi greenery outside the windows.
Review: The Kitchen, SkyCity Theatre
Two cooks, high drama and hypnotic rhythms - yet this illustrated drumming show from South India is emphatically not some relaxed mix of My Kitchen Rules and Stomp!.
Review: The Book of Everything
Silo Theatre brings flair to the stage adaptation of a delightful modern fable by Dutch writer Guus Kuijer.
Live review: Sharon Van Etten
Live review of Sharon Van Etten's show at Auckland's King's Arms.
Review: Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, The Civic
The It company from New York City boasts 14 of the best dancers that the money of its founder and funder Wal-Mart heiress, Nancy Laurie, can buy and what those 14 fabulously honed and interestingly diverse beings can do is certainly superb.
Movie review: A Little Chaos
Free of the Harry Potter juggernaut, British actor and director Alan Rickman has finally returned to the director's chair, almost two decades after his directing debut with The Winter Guest.
Movie review: Still Life
Chameleon character actor Marsan has a long list of supporting-role credits in big films (Sherlock Holmes; Mission Impossible III) and small (X+Y), which releases here next week.
Movie review: Kidnapping Mr Heineken
A good kidnapping requires clever design, meticulous planning and a magician's sense of timing; so does a good kidnapping film. This isn't one.
McCahon looms large over WWI tribute
Activism through art specialist Lemi Ponifasio and Mau take Colin McCahon's iconic painting as a huge and architectural backdrop to their spellbinding tribute to the fallen of World War I - and take....