COMMENT: Veteran film-maker Bryan Bruce delivered one of NZ's worst hours of television last night, as he took a ''rambling, incoherent" look at NZ's school system.

Several hundred hardcore Star Trek fans, along with yours truly, were the first people in the world to see the highly anticipated Star Trek Beyond trailer at Paramount Studios in Hollywood.

Until last year 'competitive forklift driving' sounded like a TV idea Alan Partridge would have pitched to the BBC's Chief Commissioning Editor along with 'inner-city sumo' and 'monkey tennis'.

To celebrate Black being back, I will cite here the five most Shane Black-iest moments from his relatively sparse filmography.

Dominic Corry cites five recent movies that received an overwhelmingly negative response but argues why they shouldn't be completely dismissed.

COMMENT: After 10 weeks of some of the most interminable and vacuous television, season two of The Bachelor exploded like an over-cooked saveloy.

COMMENT: To mark the release of Captain America: Civil War this week, Dominic Corry has decided to rank all thirteen official Marvel Cinematic Universe movies in ascending order of their awesomeness.

COMMENT: Duncan Greive looks back at the brief and blighted Mark Weldon era at MediaWorks.

COMMENT: After Ramsay Bolton did the inevitable on Game of Thrones and fed his stepmother Walda and her newborn son to his ravenous hounds, Alyssa Rosenberg tries to define a notoriously tricky subject.

COMMENT: The Jungle Book is enhanced in no small degree by the insanely realistic CGI renderings of the various animal characters.

COMMENT: To celebrate my positive attitude to remakes, here are 5 currently being planned that have the potential to be buck the prevailing perception.

COMMENT: Could Steven Spielberg's adaptation of The BFG become the best Roald Dahl movie yet? Dominic Corry investigates.

COMMENT: Like all reporters, I get a lot of email from readers: Some nice, some horrible, some thought-provoking. It's not often, though, that an email causes me such reflection that I feel compelled to write something.

COMMENT: A year in Paul Henry is in the rudest health of any TV3 news product this side of the peerless The Nation, writes Duncan Greive.

COMMENT: After breaking local box office records and earning international critical and audience acclaim for Hunt for the Wilderpeople, director Taika Waititi is turning his attention towards production of Thor: Ragnarok.

If you're selling a house, buying a house, getting married, getting divorced, starting a new job, or doing anything at all that requires you to spend your free time being productive, don't buy Stardew Valley.

This year's NZIFF Autumn Events features the New Zealand debut of one of most stunningly assured horror movies of the last decade.

New local family drama The Cul de Sac premieres tomorrow night on TV2, prompting NZ On Screen's Nicky Harrop to revisit some of our classic kidult series.

NZ On Screen's Nicky Harrop scours the charts in search of some of our most memorable novelty pop songs.

COMMENT: Pee-wee Herman is back in a brand new movie for Netflix which hilariously demonstrates that the character still has plenty to offer audiences thirty years after his iconic first film.

COMMENT: Gaming will soon be truly cross-platform. It's about time.

Marking this week's return of The Bachelor NZ, NZ On Screen's Nicky Harrop revisits some of our early forays into reality shows.

COMMENT: These days, audiences are savvier than ever to the Machiavellian machinations of the macro movie marketing machine, which has rendered genuine surprise an all-but extinct aspect of modern mainstream filmgoing.

This weekend marks the 50th anniversary of much-loved TV show Country Calendar. NZ On Screen's Nicky Harrop traces the history of our longest running series.

TV3's The Nation isn't that old. It was founded in 2010, but despite the flash modern set and the lively Twitter conversation which accompanies it, the show might be the most old-fashioned to air on New Zealand television.

Read how Dominic Corry's evening went down in the Oscars press room.

Over the course of a near 45-year career, Temuera Morrison has established himself as one of our leading actors.

Earlier this year, I wrote about the video games I was most looking forward to in the coming months. But after a couple of weeks, I realised I'd forgotten one.

This year's Pride Festival is in full swing, and this evening the Pride Parade will take over Auckland's Ponsonby Road. In honour of the event, NZ On Screen's Nicky Harrop looks back at some classic LGBT moments on screen.