Following her roles in Gone Girl and Hector's Search for Happiness, Rosamund Pike again finds herself in a troubled relationship, this time as Abi, a mum of three in the process of divorcing husband Doug (Tennant).

Pack the tissues. Although this story of a young woman dealing with a progressive neurodegenerative disease is predictable and emotionally manipulative it's still hard to hold back the tears.

The acting veterans of Middle-earth remember and reflect with Des Sampson about their time on the trilogies.

Guns? Knitting? It's still as hard as it always to find a sticking-to phrase that describes the adhesive power of AC/DC when it comes to being glued to their old ways.

Russell Crowe makes his directing debut with The Water Diviner, a movie about Gallipoli from a new perspective. He talks to Russell Baillie in Sydney.

While superhero fandom awaits the heavyweight title fight that will be Batman v Superman on the big screen next year, tonight DC comic-derived television shows The Flash and Arrow screen their two crossover episodes back to back.

As The Walking Dead heads on season hiatus, we wonder how many of you will be back for more next year? Or has the zombie apocalypse jumped the shark?

Little Big Planet developer David Dino scored his dream job by sitting on the couch working on his Playstation tan. He tells Chris Schulz it can happen to you, too.

The Womad line-up just keeps getting bigger, with the announcement today that the incomparable Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club have been added to the 2015 line-up.

If your neighbourhood shudders and shakes next year, it's because dinosaurs have invaded Auckland. And you'd better watch out, because these beasts have evolved.

After two old-school jazz albums - the acoustic The Poet's Embrace and Vermillion Skies, recorded live in the studio and direct to tape - multi-instrumentalist Haines here reverts to the amalgam of sax 'n' flute jazz.

Here's the problem with Batman right now - he's bloody everywhere. The Dark Knight has just appeared in The Lego Movie, he'll be showing up in the new Batman v Superman film, and there's even a real-life Batman doing good deeds in Japan right now.

You want them to remind you why they're great. You want them to teach those hip-hop pretenders a lesson. You want them to spit hard and fast over brilliant beats.

The prize for the most morbid and possibly most exploitative series of the year goes to this one - three one-hour studies into the deaths of the famous starting with Michael Jackson then adding investigations into Whitney Houston.

It's been 12 long year since The X-Files finished its nine-season run on television, but fans starved of supernatural crime shows will find plenty to love about Intruders.

A new series marking the centenary of WWI looks at the role of Anzac nurses. Lydia Jenkin talked to its cast and creators on the frontline.

Jake Gyllenhaal was on both sides of the camera in his latest left-field role. He tells Alexander Bisley why.

Nathan Haines had to break a few self-imposed rules of jazz to make his new album, 5 A Day, writes Lydia Jenkin.

A very loose remake of a 2008 Argentinean romance which was itself pretty soppy, this story of love in the autumn of life is not without its charms.

French DJ David Guetta is known for his chart-soaring catchy club hits. His previous album Nothing But the Beat was littered with them: Titanium (featuring Sia), Without You (featuring Usher), Sweat (featuring Snoop Dogg).

The American dream is given a twisted makeover as Jake Gyllenhaal goes to extreme lengths to make a living post-GFC.

Killer Mike and El-P's underground careers have exploded since joining forces as Run the Jewels - and they're loving every second of it. Chris Schulz joins the happy rappers on tour in Los Angeles.

When Peter Jackson went to film his final battle in Middle-earth, Dominic Corry was there.

Set on the streets of Brooklyn, The Drop is a quietly foreboding psychological thriller set in the criminal world.

I loved The Hunger Games books, but that doesn't mean I want to see two hours of Katniss whining, writes Rachel Bache. Can we not just cut out the pages that you likely skipped anyway and make a movie that is more than just okay?

At first, opening track Next Time suggests Soul Power has a fairly conventional modern soul approach, but then the rock elements creep up, the rougher, grittier production, the wild organ solo, and Curtis Harding's nuanced vocals filter through.

One of next year's most hotly tipped shows will only be available to New Zealand viewers via online streaming service Lightbox.

Grand Theft Auto V's been rebooted for next-gen consoles - complete with a first-person mode. Is it any good? Chris Schulz goes on a rampage...