American Crime might be Felicity Huffman's return to a television series playing another mother after her years on Desperate Housewives. But it is a different kind of programme to the one which had her playing Lynette Scavo for eight seasons.
Three years after she was forced to cancel her first New Zealand show, British pop star Jessie J is heading to Auckland to play a free show at Vector Arena. Rachel Bache spoke to the chart topper.
Will Smith and Aussie It Girl Margot Robbie team up in a sleek slice of escapism from directors John Requa and Glenn Ficarra, the co-writers and directors of I Love You Phillip Morris and Crazy, Stupid, Love.
Diving into The Auckland Arts Festival is bringing in two American indie bands who like to mix things up musically. Lydia Jenkin profiles Lake Street Dive.
We decided to go with the Spanish spirit of the place and ordered a jug of white sangria. It was delicious - a colourful mix of strawberries, mint, orange, lemon, and cloves.
In the past, game adaptations have made for poor movies. But with top directors and casts, that's about to change, says Patrick Grafton-Green.
Diving into The Auckland Arts Festival is bringing in two American indie bands who like to mix things up musically. Lydia Jenkin profiles Phox.
Six60 have emerged from some troubling times with a soulful second album. Chris Schulz gets in the ring with them.
Do discounted concert tickets devalue shows? Chris Schulz and Joanna Hunkin debate the issue...
In little over a fortnight video-on-demand giant Netflix sets up shop in New Zealand. Its arrival is likely to leave many television fans struggling with time management problems, not to mention how they'll pay for it all and any extra broadband usage.
Even best actress Oscar winners can have a bad day at the office, and this is one of those for Julianne Moore.
The only surprising thing about Earle making a blues album - given he's done rock, country, folk and bluegrass - is that it took him so long.
Passion Pit making out with The xx while Ellie Goulding films things quietly in the corner.
Ah Madonna. Despite that rare moment of vulnerability when she fell down the stairs at the Brit Awards last week, these days she mostly seems like an indestructible creation.
The 2013 debut album Inform-Educate-Entertain by this British duo married sometimes driving rock or evocative soundscapes with spoken word samples from old British and American docos and films.
The arrangements for talking to Sinead O'Connor come with instructions: "Please refrain for any 'gossip' style of questions.
Fanfare Ciocarlia are bringing a blast of Balkan brass to the 'Naki for Womad next month. Garth Cartwright profiles the group and its humble Romanian beginnings.
Formed after a fight that saw the demise of The Mars Volta, Antemasque are taking things back to basics. They talk to Chris Schulz.
Faith No More are back with a new album to showcase at Westfest. But Roddy Bottum tells Chris Schulz they’re still dealing with issues from their past.
It's good - and it's also bad. For The Order: 1886, a game that promises so much, that's a painful thing to say. But the evidence is irrefutable.
It's hard to fully explain this album without setting it in context.
This is a Jervois Rd stalwart where diners chatter over plates of perfect Italian food while others extend happy hour out the front.
Westfest brings a hard, fast and heavy mob to town for the summer's loudest festival. We've talked to the event's most intriguing acts, starting with heavy metal vets Judas Priest ...
After a four-year hiatus Fall Out Boy has come back fighting fit and are heading to Auckland's Westfest where they might seem the odd men out. Rachel Bache talks to bassist Pete Wentz.
From rural Queensland to Los Angeles and what seems like everywhere in between, Margot Robbie has come a long way in a short time in her young career, discovers Michele Manelis.
As the competition ramps up between online television platforms we thought it was time to highlight some of the recent additions to Lightbox and Neon which haven't been seen here before.
Just as warm and charming and with pretty much the same cast as the original, this sequel will delight its sizeable fan base, and leaves the door wide open for a third film.
After an ignominious start, TV One's comedy show Best Bits finally hit its stride last year as the second series returned with a new host.
The line-up for the 2015 Comedy Festival is out today with a programme featuring everyone from returning international and local stars to provocative new acts.
Irish band Kodaline move away from indie folk-fuelled first album In A Perfect World with the release of their sophomore album, Coming Up For Air.
One of the most interesting, if not visually engaging, artists at Laneway was electronica boffin Jon Hopkins, who added edge and scratchy beats to elevate his sound above the quasi-ambience of his albums.
Mike (Austin Powers) Myers' debut as director is a documentary about a talent agent. The choice of subject matter is perhaps the last word in self-referentiality, though it's not clear whether the titular Gordon ever represented Myers.
More theatrical than knuckle-whiteningly dramatic, this NT Live* production of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic 1883 adventure book is nevertheless an eye-poppingly brilliant display of stagecraft with a show-stealing turn from a remote-controlled animatr
Returning to TV for the first time since leaving Grey's Anatomy, Katherine Heigl is the star of this new political action drama. She plays Charlie Tucker, a CIA analyst who briefs the president every day on the "10 biggest threats facing the US".