What is it about blood baths that attracts Kiwi actors? Many are - quite literally - killing it on American TV screens at the moment. From dodging vampires to dodgy law enforcement, the roles are getting juicier and juicier. Here's five of the best.
TV on the radio or the runaway express? Paul Casserly wades into rock radio's drive time battle.
Will Luke Skywalker follow in his father's footsteps in Episode VII? The Herald's online entertainment team investigate his potential path to the dark side ...
Hayden Donnell and his alt-country outfit Great North are to about to release their third album, Up in Smoke, the follow-up to the Tui Award-winning Halves. Here's the story behind the album.
With New Zealand Music Month upon us, TimeOut talent scout Lydia Jenkin picks five acts on the cusp of bigger things in the local scene and abroad.
One man, one guitar and one loop peddle is all it took to blow fans away.
Want to see a bit of Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement's new vampire comedy What We Do in The Shadows? You can, right here, right now.
It's the photo that sent Star Wars fanboys and girls into overdrive. But who, exactly, is who? We break it down.
We trawl through the gossip mags, so you don't have to.
It's too long, too drawn out and just too plain silly to really care about, much less care which bright-eyed young couple eventually won, writes Colin Hogg.
Re-branded radio station The Hits launched its new breakfast show this morning with hosts Polly Gillespie and Grant Kereama.
After the first 20 minutes of this concert you might have concluded that here was one of the most emotionally detached and disengaged shows in many years.
It happens every year now on April 25: Maori Television morphs into our very own history channel, writes Greg Dixon
In the closing minutes of this stirring story of 14 New Zealanders sent to the front in World War I, the main character, explained for the umpteenth time that he was not a soldier.
Six Game of Thrones addicts give their thoughts on last night's epic third episode of the fourth season, Breaker of Chains.
Jesse Mulligan's gone - will Hosking soon be fronting yak-powered Seven Sharp solo?
It’s the pop cultural phenomenon of the age. It’s bigger than Brienne of Tarth, more powerful than the Giants Beyond The Wall. It’s Game of Thrones.
Almost exactly seven years ago I sat in a room in a fancy Auckland hotel with a funny, sweet, roundish little fellow who was so nervous he kept pulling at his ear.
Lorde has given up the $10,000 that came with her winning this year's Taite Music Prize and asked the cash be split among the other nominees, saying people are sick of her winning ways.
Watch Lorde's full acceptance speech from the Taite Music Prize, and hear what manager Scott Maclachlan had to say a the awards.