David Bowie is ramping up to release a new album in the New Year, but you can get your first taste of it right here.

She might be the latest comic character from the Marvel stable to get her own series, but Jessica Jones is far from your usual superhero.

When the first season of Late Night Big Breakfast screened on TV One last year, reviewers were quick to scoff.

After four years, three films and reportedly over US$2.2 billion in worldwide box-office takings, author Suzanne Collins' disturbing young adult book trilogy comes to a grim and exhausting conclusion with The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2.

Chris Schulz ventures into the wasteland, and likes what he sees.

A budding young writer in need of life experience finds the perfect muse on the streets of New York; a sophisticated, older French woman who suggests they have a "cinq-a-sept", an affair that takes place between the hours of 5am and 7pm.

As the final Hunger Games movie arrives, the franchise's stars reflect on what the films have meant to them and the wider world with Leena Tailor.

More than once in Michael Almereyda's playfully imaginative telling of the famous Stanley Milgram experiment, the film's subject walks through the corridors of Yale University musing direct to camera as an elephant lumbers by in the background.

When the Argentinian thriller The Secret in Their Eyes walked away with the 2010 Oscar for best foreign film.

Admit it. You thought Missy Elliott was gone. I certainly did. So did Missy, apparently.

This has been the year of video on demand and it's not over yet. Next week, a new streaming service WatchMe will launch, showcasing original Kiwi comedy - for free.

If you've caught the sweet, soulful strains of 26-year-old Texas native Leon Bridges emanating from the radio in the last few months, you'll undoubtedly be excited to hear he's heading to our shores early next year.

Get your leotards, leg-warmers and sweatbands ready, because Flashdance is making a comeback, this time in stage musical form.

Put down your Pip-Boy and pick up Rise - you'll like what you see, writes Chris Schulz.

She's been making headlines all over the place for her recent work choreographing videos for Justin Bieber, but 23-year-old local girl Parris Goebel has been one of New Zealand's most successful dancer/choreographers for years.

Before there was Lorde, there was a whole bunch of other strong-willed Kiwi ladies writing hits, dazzling audiences and heading overseas to try to take their music to the world.

This is reportedly the most expensive Bond movie ever. It's also the longest Bond film ever. It isn't however the best Bond movie ever - or of the Craig era either.

She's not sure, but Courtenay Taylor believes she set a record while working on Fallout 4.

Daniel Craig roars back into cinemas today in Spectre. It's his fourth time as James Bond and the second 007 film with director Sam Mendes after Skyfall, a film which, like Craig's debut in Casino Royale, ended in tragedy for cinema's greatest spy.

A new music festival was on shakey ground but the director of Echo Festival says it can be just as good in Auckland. Paxon Talbot talks to Chris Schulz.

Splore has added its biggest name yet to the bill for its summer-friendly February festival.

If any movie franchise deserves an icy makeover for its live show, it surely has to be Ice Age.

A coffee-break conversation at a climate-change conference in Wellington in 2006 was the beginning of this small but accomplished doco.

The winners at the annual local short film derby has been named with the best film now eligible to be considered for the Academy Awards.

Tom Jones is capping off a recently released new album and autobiography with a tour which heads to New Zealand in the New Year.

The first episode of the Kiwi-made designed-for-Oz dramedy about a Sydneysider shifting to smalltown New Zealand was enjoyably forgettable.

Parks and Recreation's Aziz Ansari takes the lead in new comedy show.

Assassin's Creed has had a terrible year. Unity, the series' much-heralded entry into the next generation console market was an unmitigated disaster.