The Herald's resident music experts pick their favourite shows at the now mothballed Auckland music venue the St James Theatre.

A mysterious video from JJ Abrams has appeared online.

Who should play the new Batman? Dominic Corry investigates.

Heston Blumenthal's angle is to cook like a scientist, a mad scientist, mal-adjusting food into strange, disturbing new shapes.

Whangaparaoa Hoyts packs-up its last film canisters.

Nick Grant finds this week's TV treasures.

Scott Kara says the length of ad breaks in the US in ludicrous.

Watch the trailer for Stoker, South Korean director Park Chan-wook's English language debut, starring Nicole Kidman, Mia Wasikowska and Matthew Goode.

Click here to watch NZ Herald Online's interview with Park Chan-wook.

If you had been at the Bridgeway Cinema in Northcote Point on Monday morning, you would have seen a piece of the past waiting to be carted away.

Former Shortland Street star Robbie Magasiva, who left Henderson for Hollywood last year.

Keeping up with the goss on two famous streets could lead to TV soap dependency, writes Colin Hogg.

Paul Casserly says you should watch French mystery Les Revenants.

Rudimental will see in the New Year in NZ. They talk to Chris Schulz.

Homeland returns for its third season next month, and a new trailer shows hints of the future.

Teen Beach Movie and The Fosters star Maia Mitchell sat down with nzherald.co.nz to talk about her rapid rise to fame and how she went from a small town in Australia to teen stardom. Film excerpts are all courtesy of Disney Channel & ABC Family

I'm just back from a stay with my elderly mother who shouted, "It's all rubbish" every time a television was turned on.

Watch the trailer for Giselle, in cinemas from August 15.

Giselle tells the story of two star-crossed lovers; Giselle, a delicate village beauty and a prince, disguised as a commoner, who woos her away from her devoted suitor.

Giselle was filmed in October and November 2012, in the lead up to the ballet's seven-centre New Zealand tour and three-week tour of China. Featuring a score by the Auckland Philharmonic Orchestra, the film departs occasionally from the stage setting and places the lovers within a real-world frame in New York & Shanghai

Series embraces a fresh brand of cynicism, writes Nick Grant.

Watch the new video from Carnivorous Plant Society, featuring trumpet/keyboard player (and video creator) Finn Scholes.

The five-piece band - whose music has been described as "cinematic jazz", has a wide variety of influences from Mariachi music to the stories of Stephen King.

Misty Magic Land is a musical adventure story, visualised as a comic about a man's journey through another universe. His journey starts as a mere stroll down the road. But, after touching a magic star, our comic hero is teleported to a world of fantasy and horror where anything is possible.

The Carnivorous Plant's self-titled album is due to be released on the 16th November at Auckland's Wammy Bar. It is also rumoured that more fearfully imaginative videos will follow.

Big Day Out promoter Campbell Smith joined us for a live chat and ended up revealing several new things about the revived music festival.

Pull out your plaid shirt and get ready to rock out like it's the '90's - three veteran acts are set to headline the revived leg of the Big Day Out.

To celebrate breaking the back of 2013, here's a selection of quips, quotes and brain farts as seen on TV. Can you guess who said them?

Russell Baillie takes in Jake Bugg's sold out Auckland show.

She only stepped in at the last minute to fill in for a sick Frank Ocean, but Lorde has received nothing but praise for her Splendour in the Grass performance.