My ongoing film festival experience took me to the Kiwi musical Romeo and Juliet: A Love Song on Friday night.

Colin Hogg reviews Super City.

Yes. And I have a large feminine side. I was approached to do a book and the baby thing just evolved. It's not really straight humour.

Watch the trailer for Fantail, which has its world premiere at the New Zealand International Film Festival this Sunday (Buy tickets).

Tania thinks she's Maori. She works the graveyard shift at Horizon to save money to take her brother Pi to Surfers. But one night a cheeky little bird ruins everything and Tania pays the ultimate price for being a hero.

Written by Sophie Henderson and directed by Curtis Vowell, funded by the New Zealand Film Commission's Escalator scheme. Starring Sophie Henderson, Stephen Lovatt, Jarod Rawiri, Jahalis Ngamotu, Vinnie Bennett.

Chris Schulz reviews Passion Pit's Auckland show.

Scott Kara says we should save Auckland's best live music venue, the St James Theatre.

Dominic Corry takes in some highlights from the film festival.

"I felt slightly embarrassed just watching it, though at least it didn't look like it was wasting an awful lot of taxpayer or anyone else's money," writes Colin Hogg.

Russell Baillie takes in the finale of The X Factor.

Paul Casserly says TV shows are better than movies.

Scott Kara examines the performances of the X Factor finalists.

Paul Charman reckons Taniwha are scarier than Zombies.

Reality cameras train their lenses on local shows, finds Nick Grant.

After the Wellington premiere of their new film "The World's End," Peter sat down with Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost to have a chat about the film WORLD'S END, and film-making. courtesy Peter Jackson/YouTube

Spoiler Alert: There are bits of blood and gore in this movie. If you missed the live-stream in nzherald.co.nz of the 48Hours final, here is the 48Hours Runner Runner Up: Autocraniotomous.

The opening film made for the Rialto Channel 48Hours Grand National Final for 2013, featuring host Josh Thomson and made with the help of the Canon C300.

So I hear you're the meanest woman on Shortland Street: any Scottish ancestry?

Blogger Dominic Corry takes in some Kiwi movie highlights ahead of the launch of the International Film Festival.

Watch the winning film in the 2013 Rialto Channel 48Hours filmmaking competition, from Wellington team Traces Of Nut.

I was a little nervous about watching Hoarding: Buried Alive, a new reality series that launched last week.

What are NZ's most misquoted lyrics?

Ticket prices and a date have been been set for next year's Big Day Out - but if you want to know the line-up, you'll have to wait till August.

The heat is on in this year's 90-minute episode, finds Nick Grant.