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Joanna Hunkin: Modern Day Hippies go all the way on MKR
"If these boring hippies make it past the first week, I'm not watching anymore," I wrote.

Movie review: Whiplash
Whiplash is a riveting, thrilling film that gets away with an ending that's perhaps just a little too clean, writes Russell Baillie.

Movie review: Love, Rosie
This romantic comedy, based on Irish author Cecelia Ahern's novel Where Rainbows End, begins promisingly, writes Francesca Rudkin.

Movie review: Fury
Fury is a reminder that war movies should be a guilty pleasure. You shouldn't enjoy the carnage, but that's what movies were invented for.

Evil Within delivers devilish scares
Welcome to the world of The Evil Within, the new psychological-horror game from Resident Evil's scare guru Shinji Mikami that doesn't hold back.

Concert review: NZSO, Auckland Town Hall
When the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra brought its Bold Worlds concert to town last year, the accent was on percussion.

Album review: Chris Brown, X
Chris Brown's new album has taught me a valuable life lesson: never listen too closely to the lyrics of an R&B song. You will be grossed out.

Album review: Lenny Kravitz, Strut
With two new Prince albums, the reissue of two Hendrix albums (Cry of Love, Rainbow Bridge) and the next instalment of Hunger Games pending.

Dance review: The Status of Being
There is no complacent sitting back comfortably to watch Alexa Wilson's explosive and challenging choreography The Status of Being, made on the company's very new quintet of five impressive young dancers.

Game review: Driveclub
There's a grating irony about a game that's all about getting to the finish line quickly and cleanly having taken so long to actually make it into the shops, all banged-up on arrival.

Album review: Will Wood, Broken Man
Will Wood defies any normal categorisation. The Aucklander grew up playing classical violin and piano, and singing in choirs, before he got stuck into the drums and guitar.
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Album review: [shift], The Traveller
New Zealand band [shift]’s debut album The Traveller is one that you’ll want to turn the volume up for.

Album review: Flying Lotus, You're Dead
Among the many things you can accuse Flying Lotus of being, boring is not one of them.

Movie review: Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Royal Shakespeare Company's project to stage all the plays over six years (the centrepiece of which will be the 400th anniversary, in 2016, of the playwright's death) continues with an energetic and good-natured production.

Movie review: Pride
When British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher set about closing coal mines in 1984, it sparked a year-long strike by members of the National Union of Mineworkers, the memories of which still reverberate in the provinces.

Movie review: Siddharth
Canadian-born director Mehta shows a keen eye for the mean streets of his ancestral homeland in this small, heartfelt story of a man's search for his missing son.

Album review: Tweedy, Sukirae
In the past two decades, Jeff Tweedy has become one of America’s most emotionally intelligent and versatile songwriters.

Movie review: Medea
The NT Live* project reached cinemas here five years ago in July and this newest show is the oldest: it’s the series first Greek tragedy, Euripides’ 2500-year-old story of a woman who exacts the most hideous revenge.

Album review: Weezer
Rivers Cuomo and co have been talking the talk ahead of the release of their ninth studio album, promising a return to the guitar crunch of their first, and best, album, the Blue one.

Album review: Thom Yorke, Philip Selway
Radiohead fans might be thinking a new album might be nice about now given the gap since 2011's King of Limbs and the tour which brought them here the following year.

Album review: Lucinda Williams
Few artists would dare open an album - let alone a double set - with a spare song based on the words of their accomplished poet father.

Album review: Sola Rosa, Magnetics
Sola Rosa are known for their star collaborations and genre mixing, and their latest album lives up to that reputation.

Movie review: We Are The Best!
A story of three Swedish teens turning to punk rock and each other makes for a warm and funny story of 80s adolescence, writes Francesca Rudkin

Movie review: The Judge
Paring Robert Downey jnr as the hotshot lawyer son of judge Robert Duvall? An emotional fraud of a film, writes Russell Baillie ...

Concert review: Miley Cyrus, Vector Arena
Miley Cyrus devotees have had an exciting 24 hours, after the star touched down at Auckland Airport yesterday morning for her first New Zealand concert at Vector Arena last night.

Musical review: The Sound of Music, The Civic
Right now The Sound of Music seems even more in tune with the times than when it premiered in 1959 and anticipated all the major themes of the 60s.