It was a scream that startled the neighbours. I'd been fumbling around a blackened basement looking for the power switch when something grabbed my ankle. It didn't have any legs. And it was trying to eat me.

I always thought Blur got more interesting towards the end of their time.

One of New Zealand's most talented clowns makes magic out of nothing, alone in his spotlight, tights and singlet, Janet McAllister writes.

Six Game of Thrones fanatics share their thoughts on season five's third episode, The High Sparrow.

Former Disney star, Demi Lovato proved that she's not just a pop princess but a rock queen at her concert last night at Auckland's Vector Arena.

21 comics over three-and-a-half hours became 'comedy as punishment' at last night's Comedy Gala.

Toni Collette is fabulous and utterly convincing in this low-key drama about a magazine music writer whose latest assignment is to go in search of her ex-boyfriend, cult rock hero Matthew Smith, who mysteriously disappeared 10 years ago.

Thursday's concert came with transtasman connections, being played by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra a day before the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra delivered it to us.

For Russian writer-director Zvyagintsev, whose 2003 debut The Return deeply impressed, this is feature number four, though only his second to be seen here outside festivals.

This is McGlashan's third solo album and though the previous two had plenty of terrific songs, they had a grab-bag kind of feel about them.

Age of Ultron feels less of an event than the first film, just a reasonably exciting instalment in Marvel's ongoing mega-franchise.

Psychologist Nigel Latta is on a quest to find out ‘how stuff happens,’ writes Alex Casey.

After a difficult start with the comings and goings of numerous directors and stars, including Katherine Heigl and Natalie Portman, this epic romantic drama about a woman who remains aged 29 for almost eight decades finally sees the light of day.

Ricky Martin kicked off his global One World Tour at Auckland's Vector Arena last night. But it wasn't what fans were hoping for.

Back-door internet TV services this week defied a ‘cease and desist’ order from the country’s biggest broadcasters. Geoff Cumming considers what happens now.

Blackbird Ensemble's latest sortie into chamber music cabaret involves a wide-ranging playlist, from Nick Cave to The Smiths, Gillian Welch to Nina Simone.

TV reviewer Duncan Greive checks in with the latest from the CSI franchise and enjoys the entertaining silliness of it's cyber sleuths.

Baby boomers were celebrating last night as Rod Stewart led his latest world tour to Vector Arena in Auckland.

Russell Baillie reviews the first episode of Game of Thrones' fifth season, The Wars to Come.

Screams erupted from the crowd as singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran stepped into the spotlight and plugged in his guitar.

John Steinbeck's classic American tragedy-in-miniature has had five screen adaptations (including an Iranian film) but the only theatre version was the author's own, published and first staged in 1937, the same year as the novel.

The NZSO brought out one of its 2015 stars on Saturday and was duly rewarded with a full house.