Auckland Zoo a crowded house for family's set of shining songs, writes Lydia Jenkin.

Plenty of actors are performing in games but why aren’t they getting gongs too? Troy Rawhiti-Forbes attempts to put things right with TimeOut’s first-ever Spacies Awards.

2015 is proving to be the year of the robot. Dominic Corry takes a look at some of the best bots we can look forward to seeing on the big screen.

Hauraki's Matt Heath and Jeremy Wells battle for their picks of best album, ever.

Series creator Lee Zlotoff has decided to bring MacGyver back as a woman. And what a woman!

Grohl remains one of the best front men in the business - someone that can crack up the crowd just by raising an eyebrow.

Adapting classic movies for television is a hit-and-miss affair, writes Karl Puschmann.

I see TV3's out looking for that damned elusive X factor again. The search might go on forever, but it'll never really be about who wins. It'll always be about the judges.

Those of you familiar with the X-Factor format will know it runs on a pretty basic formula.

Injection of new life, rather than spider venom, desperately needed, writes Karl Puschman.

Chris Schulz takes on Kanye West over Beck's win and Beyonce's snub at the Grammys.

If hype, 'likes' and advanced ticket sales are any indication of success, box offices around the world will get a boost this weekend with the release of the much anticipated adaptation of author EL James' "mummy porn" phenomenon, Fifty Shades of Grey.

Tastes in video games can often change. Siobhan Keogh admits she may have been wrong about some of the games she's rejected.

The highly anticipated film Fifty Shades of Grey is being unleashed on New Zealand this week. Dominic Corry takes a peek at some of the cringiest sex scenes shown on the big screen.

Paul Casserly rounds up the best TV quotes from January.

Michele Hewitson writes: Aside from the infuriating filler games, Our First Home is hokey and insincere and has more holes in it than the floorboards in the crappy do-ups on offer.

Our boys and girls in blue have had a bad run of late, writes Matt Heath. That bonehead zero tolerance campaign. Racist taxi rides, hypocritical pants-down road cone dashes. All bad looks.

How did a Hollywood novice who hadn’t even read the book come to direct the film version of the mega-hit Fifty Shades of Grey? Sam Taylor-Johnson reveals all.

Girls was very good but I think I've now had enough. With season five on the way I'm left wondering what stories these increasingly one-note characters have left to tell.

What could be better than battling dragons and falling in love? Siobhan Keogh takes a look at romance in video games.

Herald blogger and official TV Junkie Paul Casserly dissects the best and worst of television offerings from the past month.

The Song of the Year is one of the many Grammy Awards being given out on Monday, New Zealand time. We asked some of our favourite ZM presenters which is their pick to win.

Spy movie Kingsman: The Secret Service inspired Dominic Corry to take a look at some of his favourite Bond-inspired films.

Entertainment is a funny business, especially when it's not that funny at all. Take, for instance, The Missing, a new British television drama series that launched on TV One on Sunday night in both terrific and dreadful style.

Beards and birthdays. Paul Casserly breaks down the return of Seven Sharp and Campbell Live.

Gameplanet unveils its most anticipated games for 2015.