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This Friday nzherald.co.nz launch our latest Barkers Sundae Session. SHIHAD, performing songs from their new album FVEY, and in conversation with Hugh Sundae.
Watch this taster - Think You're So Free - from the last ever performance at York Street Studios, and visit nzherald.co.nz/shihad this Friday to watch the session in full.
Seventeen year old pop star Lorde has teamed with the New Zealand Electoral Commission to encourage eligible Kiwis to sign up and have a voice. 'Politics doesn't have to be about a bunch of old people in suits, talking about issues that aren't relevant to youth' Courtesy ElectoralCommission/YouTube
From Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson comes “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies,” the third in a trilogy of films adapting the enduringly popular masterpiece The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien.
Mad Max is back in a new film from creator George Miller, starring Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron.
Flight of the Conchords members Brett McKenzie and Jemaine Clement announce their live special.
The first trailer for Fifty Shades of Grey has sent the internet into paroxysms, with conversations being 5 per cent portrayal of women, 10 per cent Beyonce soundtrack, 15 per cent "squeeeeee" and 70 per cent Jamie Dornan's torso. Courtesy Fifty Shades of Grey/YouTube
Much-loved New Zealand actress Robyn Malcolm (Agent Anna, Outrageous Fortune) will take on dual male and female roles in Auckland Theatre Company's production of Bertolt Brecht's The Good Soul of Szechuan. Playing at Auckland's Q Theatre from July 24 to August 17, Malcolm will demonstrate why she is one of the best in the business as she channels both good and evil, man and woman, in the carnival-esque masterpiece by one of theatre's most respected and influential playwrights.
Go behind the scenes of new New Zealand feature Everything We Loved, written and directed by Max Currie.
In this video, meet five-year-old star Ben Clarkson.
Join nzherald.co.nz as we live stream the red carpet premiere of Everything We Loved on Monday July 28th, then head over to the NZ Film Commission to watch the film, and back here for a live stream of the Question & Answer session. For more details click here.
Go behind the scenes of new New Zealand feature Everything We Loved, written and directed by Max Currie.
In this video, director Max Currie talks to Ben Clarkson.
Join nzherald.co.nz as we live stream the red carpet premiere of Everything We Loved on Monday July 28th, then head over to the NZ Film Commission to watch the film, and back here for a live stream of the Question & Answer session. For more details click here.
Check out the trailer for Toa Fraser's action-epic The Dead Lands, set in pre-colonial New Zealand and starring James Rolleston and Lawrence Makoare. Read the film's world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival and New Zealand release here.
This 27-year-old abstained from drinking booze last year and spent the money he otherwise would have spent on beer on 41 tattoos of TV's biggest beer drinker -- Homer Simpson.
Christchurch residents and staff from Diana Isaac Retirement Village took a week to film the parody video calling it "80-odd years of happy". Courtesy YouTube/80odd yearsofhappy
Watch The Plains, the new video from Auckland's Las Tetas, directed by Orlando Stewart.
Director JJ Abrams has revealed a first look at the X-Wing Starfighter that will grace the screen in the upcoming Star Wars Episode VII. Courtesy Star Wars
INXS: Never Tear Us Apart is an uncensored two-part biopic of Aussie rockers INXS, told with collaboration with the band and those who knew them best. It will screen on TV3 in August.
Watch the new video from Flip Grater - The Smell Of Strangers - taken from recent album Pigalle, and directed by Logan McMillan.
Go behind the scenes of new New Zealand feature Everything We Loved, written and directed by Max Currie.
In this video, meet lead actor Brett Stewart.
This clip for 'Me At The Museum, You In The Wintergardens', the lead track off Tiny Ruins' new album 'Brightly Painted One' was filmed, edited and made by Neil Finn while both were on tour in Europe. Courtesy: Flying Nun
Queen, one of the biggest-selling, best-loved and most enduring bands in rock history is heading to Auckland for the first time in nearly 30 years. Despite the death of the band's flamboyant frontman Freddie Mercury in 1991, Queen is playing Vector Area on Wednesday, September 3 - with American Idol star Adam Lambert on vocals.
Drama and reality combine in a fictitious 24 hours in the life of musician and international cultural icon Nick Cave. With startlingly frank insights and an intimate portrayal of the artistic process, the film examines what makes us who we are, and celebrates the transformative power of the creative spirit. In New Zealand cinemas on August 21.
The worldwide phenomenon of The Hunger Games continues to set the world on fire with The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1, which finds Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) in District 13 after she literally shatters the games forever. Courtesy: The Hunger Games
Here's the second teaser trailer for the forthcoming Hunger Games sequel, Mockingjay Part 1. Set in the same white room as the first clip, the second speech from President Snow (Donald Sutherland), is delivered flanked by Panem's Peacekeepers. He's joined by Peeta (Josh Hutcherson), the love interest of Jennifer Lawrence's Katniss, and District 7 champion Johanna (Jena Malone). President Snow's broadcast is interrupted by a message from District 13's hacker Beetee (Jeffrey Wright): "The Mockingjay lives." Courtesy: Universal
Premiering at the NZ International Film Festival is director Paolo Rotondo's powerful drama about a man who returns to his home on Waiheke only to confronted by three fugitive kids. Exposed to the helplessness of his tormentors he is forced to face his own demons.
Over the course of the night the tables are turned and a tenuous bond begins to grow between them. When dawn comes, so too does the law. Now, the four of them find themselves on the run together.
Starring: Colin Moy, Calae Hignett Morgan, Hanelle Harris and Jesse-James Rehu Pickery Produced by Fraser Brown Written and directed by Paolo Rotondo
Orphans & Kingdoms will have its World Premiere at the NZ International Film Festival in Auckland on July 20. Tickets are available here
Watch the new video from SHIHAD - Think You're So Free - taken form their new album FVEY released August 8.
Directed by Sam Peacocke.
The Last Saint, a contemporary crime thriller set in Auckland's urban underbelly, is a debut feature film by Naufahu which premieres next month and depicts a different type of Pure New Zealand - one few talk about.
The wizards at Weta Digital talk about how they made a monkey out of just about everyone in the new Dawn of the Planet of the Apes which opens in New Zealand on July 10.
As the Allies make their final push in the European Theatre, a battle-hardened army sergeant named Wardaddy (Brad Pitt) commands a Sherman tank and her five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines.
Watch the latest movie trailer for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. In theatres on August 8.
After nearly a century the curtains have closed on one of New Zealand's most historic cinemas in Ohakune.
Interstellar chronicles the adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.
The Dark Horse is a true story based on the life of Genesis Potini, a wildly charismatic, bipolar-suffering former chess champion. It stars Cliff Curtis and James Rolleston, and opens in New Zealand cinemas on July 31. Also appearing at the International Film Festival.
With York Street Studios now closed, the Barkers Sundae Sessions move to Roundhead Studios, with Grayson Gilmour the first artist in this new home.
To enjoy this full length session we suggest you use headphones/speakers, and watch full screen - or send to you television via devices such as Apple TV.
Is this the must-see event of the season - the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra perform all nine of Beethoven's Symphonies, in order, over four days. NZSO Music Director Pietari Inkinen and the musicians chat about this incredible undertaking during the first day of rehearsals...