Battlefield Hardline: As gritty as a great cop show
Shaky cameras, gnarly character actors, gritty storylines and grisly crime scenes. You could mistake Battlefield Hardline's opening scenes for a reboot of the late, great cop show NYPD Blue.
Shaky cameras, gnarly character actors, gritty storylines and grisly crime scenes. You could mistake Battlefield Hardline's opening scenes for a reboot of the late, great cop show NYPD Blue.
They kicked their career off with an almighty hiss and a roar, thanks to breakneck 90s dance anthems Breathe and Firestarter.
Best Bits is a cheery addition to a Thursday night, taking the worst bits of television and making some pretty damn good TV, writes Alex Casey.
Oldies tours make big money on the concert circuit, and gaming oldies can go the same way when they're done well.
The latest season of The Walking Dead shambled to an end this week. Robert Smith kicks at some zombie carcasses and asks, where to from here?
Unsolved true-life crime as entertainment is hot stuff.
Any screen, anywhere, any time is becoming a reality for NZ TV and movie viewers. Lydia Jenkin runs through the increasing options.
Calum Henderson watched Good Morning every day for a week, and recorded every joyful moment of the bizarre lifestyle show.
Like it or not this season of The X Factor has created New Zealand television history. How the hell do you follow that up?
Cringe. That was the prevailing sensation throughout the first episode of The Bachelor New Zealand.
Following The Hunger Games was always going to be tough for the Divergent series, another young adult novel series set in a dystopian world.
A tormented shriek, a sudden drop into darkness and a tall figure in robes emerges from the shadows, ranting.
Looking for light, cheerful entertainment for the littlies these holidays? Meet Home, the latest animated family film from DreamWorks Animation.
This simple, measured, gentle charmer can be found inside a soft white cube inside the black box studio of Q Loft.
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.
"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.
This simply staged one-man show makes for an easy, funny and extraordinarily entertaining night out.
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.
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!.
Silo Theatre brings flair to the stage adaptation of a delightful modern fable by Dutch writer Guus Kuijer.
Chicago-based hip-hop crew the Q Brothers bring plenty of verve to their remix of Shakespeare's cross-cultural tragedy Othello.