The latest installment of the MLB: The Show franchise easily strengthens its reputation as one of the best sporting games around.

The Four Horsemen's performance once again involves telling how they pull off their tricks. If only the plot revealed itself with the same clarity.

The cub has grown up: Lydia Jenkin talks to the new star of Westside.

It's high-stakes drama that hooks viewers in, yet according to those with firsthand experience, it is chillingly accurate.

The Rehearsal, a film involving many luminaries of acting, movie-making, literature and music is to have its world premiere.

Here are shows with cameras on boats that we can get behind.

According to one reviewer, Outcast is not for the faint of heart.

It seems British reviewers were somewhat underwhelmed by the first post-Clarkson/Hammond episode of Top Gear; here's what they said.

Starting out as buskers, Drax Project quickly established themselves as a band to watch indoors as well. They talk to Lydia Jenkin.

Ariana Grande's new album, Dangerous Women, is a step up with its gritty, R&B sound with a dance-pop twist.

Julia Roberts and George Clooney's starpower can't save Jodie Foster's Wall Street hostage thriller.

The heroes in a half shell return for another half-baked action comedy.

The Goodbye Pork Pie remake has shot its final scenes. Russell Baillie was there.

The Japanese master of domestic drama, and heir to the tradition of the great Yasujiro Ozu turns in another of his beguilingly simple family stories.

Hit motoring show Top Gear is finally roaring back into life. Des Sampson talks to the men in the drivers' seats.

It's a rare artist who can wrap up the past, present and future in one unique package. But that's exactly what Skepta manages to do.

It's not an album without hope and there's plenty of softness and warmth to be found in the fragility and sadness.

Jeremy Clarkson's replacement says the BBC motoring show will be hitting the roads of NZ again.

Sergeant Catherine Cawood went through hell on the first series of the Bafta Award-winning drama Happy Valley.

The fifth season of The Block is being billed as "Girls vs Boys" but you have to wonder if the title should really be "Builders vs The Rest".

Don't call us a ballad band says the veteran Aussie group touring New Zealand next week.

A mash-up series in which dozens of the novelist's characters share a neighbourhood and storylines with each other across 13 episodes.

Former Shapeshifter member Devin Abrams is striking out alone. He tells Lydia Jenkin why.

They don't build monuments to critics but this doco about a celebrated L.A. food writer is something to savour.

It's nww surprise these albums by Bob Dylan (who turned 75 yesterday) and Eric Clapton (71) don't have much, if anything, to do with rock.

Rapper A$AP Ferg is going places for his next Auckland performance.

David Farrier climbed into a story you would never buy if it was fiction.

New show Preacher is a comic book adaptation unlike any other.

Midge Marsden is one of many Kiwi music veterans lending their treasures to Auckland Museum.

The Pacific Music Awards is coming up, and today the recipient of this year's Lifetime Achievement Award is announced.