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.

As the flames licked the walls and curtains of poor plain Edith's bedroom this week, the plot of Downton Abbey (8.30pm, Thursdays, Prime) seemed finally to be in real and imminent danger of catching on fire. Sadly, however, the fire brigade put it - the p

Joshua Jackson's career has been going strong over the last decade.

Common's new album has a serious message behind the gloomy cover. As he heads to next week's SoulFest in Auckland, the rapper, actor and activist talks to Chris Schulz.

R&B legend Angie Stone tells Lydia Jenkin how proud she is to be part of SoulFest line-up next weekend.

Actor Chadwick Boseman "gets on up", and some, in this slick biography of "the Godfather of Soul", James Brown. Boseman won't be familiar to New Zealand audiences but his electrifying turn will put his name up in lights.

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.

With two new Prince albums, the reissue of two Hendrix albums (Cry of Love, Rainbow Bridge) and the next instalment of Hunger Games pending.

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.

Overwhelmed by the online world? Fear not: help is at hand with Rhodri Marsden's guide to Netiquette.

Benny Tipene shares his first gig experience: U2 and Kanye West, Mt Smart Stadium, 2006.

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.

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.

Here are five things you need to know about series five of Downton Abbey. (Warning, contains spoilers).

Siobhan Keogh isn't quite ready to jump into the LOTR gaming universe.

The movie Whiplash is winning acclaim for its nerve-racking portrayal of a music school teacher-pupil relationship. Its young star and director talk to Helen Barlow.

Dave Grohl has unveiled his most ambitious Foo Fighters project yet, a multi-media musical road trip across the US. But he still has to cook breakfast for his kids. He talks to Chris Schulz.

Aloe Blacc plans to get the audience up and dancing when he plays here this month.

Chris Schulz gears up with some of the latest tech gadgets set to hit the market.

It's been hailed as the best rap album ever made, was the subject of an acclaimed documentary earlier this year and is so good it's said to have changed hip-hop history.

Twenty years after they took New Zealand rock by storm, Supergroove is to be inducted into the New Zealand Music Hall of Fame.

A second wave of New Zealand sideshows spilling over from Australia's Bluesfest has been announced.

For the first time in the gory history of the hit zombie apocalypse story, series four ended with a cliff-hanger. It left its entire cast in jeopardy, with Rick (Andrew Lincoln) and his group trapped in a train car in the Terminus.

Actor Robin Lord Taylor says he has some "big webbed feet to fill" playing Penguin in the TV series Gotham.

Get On Up, the film of James Brown, is essentially like most biopics; a rags-to-riches summary of its subject's milestones, successes and failures.

Thoroughly modern Mary is once again caught in a love triangle, writes Des Sampson.

Transparent is funny, uncomfortable, obnoxious, intimate and sad.

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.

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