EntertainmentMovie Review: Cave Of Forgotten DreamsThe visual trick that is 3D cinema is designed to heighten reality but, in my experience, makes it less convincing.07 Oct 05:30 PM
EntertainmentAlbum Review: Throwing Muses, The AnthologyIn typical Throwing Muses fashion, the American indie pop rock band - formed by step sisters Kristin Hersh and Tanya Donnelly in the early 80s - have put together a two-disc collection made up of songs they like.07 Oct 05:30 PM
OpinionTheatre review: The Angel & the Beloved, Hopetoun AlphaRainer Maria Rilke has always commanded a devoted following among connoisseurs of fine literature but he is also widely read. 06 Oct 12:05 AM
OpinionTheatre review: Love After Dark, The BasementThe Basement's reputation as a hot-house for new talent is emphatically confirmed by a blast of youthful energy that has teams of young actors, each with their own writer and director, devising three short plays.05 Oct 10:45 PM
EntertainmentAlbum Review: Blitzen Trapper, American GoldwingWith pedal steel, banjo and a melancholy delivery, some songs come close to classic country-influenced songs by Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clarke and Butch Hancock.05 Oct 05:30 PM
EntertainmentAlbum Review: Opeth, HeritageAnd so ends the reign of one of the most fearsome, flamboyant and innovative metal bands ever to walk the earth. 05 Oct 05:30 PM
EntertainmentMovie Review: What's Your Number?Anna Faris has developed a distinctive ditzy blond routine that can be an acquired taste. Francesca Rudkin reports.05 Oct 05:30 PM
EntertainmentMovie Review: The OratorIt was tempting to expect that the first truly Samoan feature film might have been a small and precious thing, worth praising more for the promises it made for the future than for its achievement in its own right.05 Oct 05:30 PM
EntertainmentMovie Review: Real SteelAn at-times unusual blend of intense futuristic boxing and schmaltzy, predictable father and son drama, this science fiction adventure is a mixed bag but should find a keen audience these school holidays.05 Oct 05:30 PM
EntertainmentAlbum Review: Glen Campbell, Ghost on the CanvasAlongside his Alzheimer's diagnosis and a farewell tour comes this self-announced "final studio album" by the 75-year-old legend Glen Campbell.05 Oct 05:30 PM
EntertainmentAlbum Review: Tinariwen, TassiliThe tranquility and rejuvenating quality of Tinariwen's desert blues tunes is remarkable. That might sound a little hippie dippy - far-fetched, even - but the Tuareg Malian band's minimal music really does have that healing power. 05 Oct 05:30 PM
EntertainmentMovie Review: AbductionThe transition of the Twilight stars on to the next stage of their careers will prove interesting over the next few years; in Abduction we get to see Taylor Lautner make his first attempt.05 Oct 05:30 PM
EntertainmentBook Review: The Cat's TableIn the opening pages of Michael Ondaatje's new novel, a young boy named Michael sets out for England on a passenger liner. It's the early 1950s. 05 Oct 04:00 PM
EntertainmentBook Review: Pao "Life is hard" is one of the Noble Truths and Yang Pao, as a young boy landing on the streets of Jamaica in the 1930s, learns that lesson quickly. 05 Oct 04:00 PM
EntertainmentTheatre Review: Yours Truly at The BasementPlaywright Albert Belz has earned considerable acclaim for his treatment of Maori subjects but his re-telling of the Jack the Ripper story seems to be making a statement about the perils of pigeon-holing writers according to their ethnicity.02 Oct 07:30 PM
EntertainmentAlbum Review: Wooden Shjips, WestWooden Shjips, out of San Francisco, once again serve up their particular brand of astral plane psychedelic drone-rock which sounds filtered through steel wool. 30 Sep 05:30 PM
EntertainmentAlbum Review: Wilco, The Whole LoveIf Wilco followers, especially those who signed on during their celebrated left-turn period of 2002's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and 2004's A Ghost Is Born, might have felt the band's more recent albums were playing it safe, then help is at hand.30 Sep 05:30 PM
EntertainmentAlbum Review: Nirvana, Nevermind (Super Deluxe Edition)The greats of the grunge era are still vying for market share, 20 years on. Scott Kara dives in.30 Sep 05:30 PM
OpinionConcert review: R&V Soundcheck, Vector ArenaKaty B might have been a no-show but bass heavy dubstep acts Magnetic Man, Diplo and Nero made up for at Vector Arena in Auckland.30 Sep 01:00 AM
OpinionJanet McAllisterTheatre Review: Anything Goes at Civic TheatreCole Porter's smart-to-be-silly, witty-and-warm songs are so exceptional that they could pull this 1934 hit musical comedy through by themselves.29 Sep 06:30 PM
EntertainmentAlbum Review: Kasabian, Velociraptor!Posturing rockers Kasabian named their fourth album after a dinosaur, maintaining they are the current dinosaurs of the Brit-rock scene.28 Sep 05:30 PM
EntertainmentAlbum Review: Tourettes, Tiger BellyWhile Auckland rapper and poet Tourettes (real name Dominic Hoey) is not so much of a smart aleck on fourth album Tiger Belly, he's just as clever, cutting, and hilarious. 28 Sep 05:30 PM
