The biggest star of Far Cry 4 might not be the game's hero, but its villain. Chris Schulz investigates.

- TimeOut

The lead voice of The Seekers was almost stilled last year when she suffered a brain haemorrhage. But Judith Durham is back with the band as it heads to New Zealand for its 50th Anniversary Tour. She talks to Russell Baillie.

Guitar legend James Burton is in town to help John Rowles sing Elvis. He talks to Graham Reid.

The troubles that this Napier-based instrumental three-piece endured recently meant a gap of eight years between albums.

In 1997, director Eduardo Sanchez and his University of Central Florida classmate Dan Myrick wrote, directed and edited one of the most profitable films ever made, The Blair Witch Project.

Now in his mid-70s, prolific playwright Israel Horovitz shows little sign of slowing down, directing his first film My Old Lady, an adaptation of one of his own plays.

The much-anticipated soundtrack to The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 comes out in New Zealand tomorrow - the first territory in the world to receive it, ahead of the film's release worldwide next week.

Hunger Games star Jennifer Lawrence tells Michele Manelis how much she will miss the series that propelled her to fame and fortune.

I don't watch much reality television, but even with my limited experience, I know one thing's for sure: competent people doing competent things does not make great TV, writes Chris Schulz.

TVNZ announced their new season line-up last night, and while there were nearly 40 new shows on the list, here are the 10 most intriguing fresh offerings ...

The Byron Bay Blues Festival across the Tasman is continuing to bring acts to our part of the world too.

When it started in mid-2012, it was hoped that The Newsroom would do for journalism what its writer Aaron Sorkin had done for politics with The West Wing .

It's Birmingham, 1919, and things are a bit messy in the aftermath of World War I.

T Bone Burnett tells Neil McCormick how he persuaded today's stars to record unreleased songs by Bob Dylan.

Graham Reid speaks with Roxy Music guitarist Phil Manzanera, about his work as co- producer of Pink Floyd's new and final album.

So here it is: after chewing it around for a bit (a short bit), after kicking it around with friends and colleagues for a bit more (a short bit more) and, after realising how unbelievably boring it can be when TV shows go on and on and on and on.

In 2007, while compiling a history of a Chicago neighbourhood, John Maloof bought at auction a box of locally shot photographic negatives.

It's taken Jakob eight years to record a new album. Why? That's a story that takes around three hours to tell. Chris Schulz pulls up a stool and shares a beer with Napier's troubled rock trio.

It's 25 years since David Hasselhoff became the soundtrack to the fall of the Berlin Wall. He sings again, to Russell Baillie.

Anne Hathaway's new film has given her a glimpse into the world of astronomy that she dreamed of as a child, an experience she found humbling, writes, Leena Tailor.

Things are bound to get personal when Chelsea Handler brings her lippy stand-up show to Auckland. The former Late Night host talks to Chris Schulz.

Danish filmmaker Susanne Bier's Depression-era drama, based on the book by Ron Rash, is a bleak and rather ponderous exploration of a marriage set in the stunning forests of North Carolina in 1929.

British director Christopher Nolan has never been afraid of complex narratives or a vision for how to bring them to life on the big screen.

Ed Knowles shares his first gig experience: The Datsuns at the Big Day Out, 2003

Scottish band Mogwai are nearing their 20th anniversary as masters of moody guitar grinds and atmospheric post-rock. They'll be celebrating that milestone with two shows in Auckland next year.

Forget Jewels - Killer Mike and El-P have struck gold. The rap duo know it too - their bold rhymes and aggressive attitude gives their second album together as Run the Jewels a thrillingly kinetic kick.

Even the staunchest Arsenal fan would have to admit that watching new Chelsea signing Diego Costa score a goal in the slick surroundings of the PlayStation 4 is a thing of beauty.

Former Screaming Trees singer Lanegan isn't shy putting himself about.

Skylanders, or Disney Infinity? It's the debate set to cause parents nightmares leading up to Christmas.