The New Zealand International Film Festival has announced five of the music-themed movies in the programme for the July event.

In World Class? Inside New Zealand Education Bruce ponders whether the New Zealand state education system.

If a a trip to the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival didn't quite make it into your 2016 budget planning, no matter.

A familiar voice sang on the opening scene's soundtrack of The Catch, (Wednesdays, 7pm, TVNZ OnDemand).

Well, it won't quite be live when it airs in NZ, but for the first time in history, an animated series has made some live television.

Throughout the series, Lady Dynamite experiments with structure, often veering away from traditional TV comedies and into surreal, uncharted territory.

The celebrity documentarian has made a career out of playing a provincial oaf whose childlike questions cut to the heart of issues.

James Blake's new album is a spellbinding mixture of glorious vocals and spare electronica, which somehow manages to play in the dark side of life while also remaining light and free

It's no spoiler to say that the title character of this powerfully affecting true-life drama dies at the end.

"Jemaine can do anything. He can do absolutely anything and he's the sweetest, most retiring guy."

A group of school friends want to put Onehunga rap back on the map. Chris Schulz meets six-strong hip-hop crew SWIDT.

Two men escape their humdrum lives by searching for long lost artefacts in overgrown fields using metal detectors.

Russell Crowe is going for laughs in his latest film. He tells Dominic Corry why.

As his band makes plans to return to New Zealand at the end of the year, Chris Martin talks to Lydia Jenkin about life on planet Coldplay.

Much of it is awfully familiar, this isn't quite as inventive a period piece as the franchise was in previous decades.

The show is called Alchemy - four female vocalists taking a bunch of Kiwi pop songs and reinventing them as jazz.

A child bride who became the first female taxi driver in South India is the unlikely star of an inspiring film in this month's Documentary Edge Festival.

Alienation is a gorgeous isometric twin-stick shooter with elements of Diablo which is engaging, addictive, and great fun.

Mireille Enos has gone private, and glammed up for crime-and-caper drama The Catch, the latest show by Shonda Rhimes and Betsy Beers.

The Runaways' Cherie Currie has come to terms with her bad feelings for her ex-manager and even made her latest album with him.

The stars and director of X-Men: Apocalypse look back at their time on the franchise and what's in store in the closing chapter to the second trilogy for the mutant superheroes.

Will it live up to the hype? We asked several game fanatics what Uncharted 4 has to prove when it gets released tomorrow.

To celebrate New Zealand Music Month, here are 12 cool things kiwi musicians have achieved in the past 12 months you might've missed.

The Avengers are back brighter than ever - squabbling, kicking ass and cracking jokes.

It might be the third Captain America movie but this isn't a stand-alone affair like his previous two, writes Russell Baillie.

The countdown to the 2016 New Zealand International Film Festival has begun with the announcement of the first five films in its programme.

Captain America and his fellow Avengers are back to fight new foes - each other. Michele Manelis reports.

Chris Schulz gets some hands-on time with Uncharted 4, and finds he needs a little help.