EntertainmentBook Review: <i>The Gallows Bird</i>The fact that a reality television show features in Camilla Lackberg's mesmerising new novel will mean little to New Zealand readers of this best-selling Nordic writer, but her fellow Swedes might discern a little score-settling.15 May 05:00 PM
EntertainmentBook Review: <i>The Novel in the Viola</i>A witty, irreverent and gutsy heroine carries this new novel.15 May 05:00 PM
EntertainmentAlbum Review: Steve Winwood, Revolutions: The Best of Steve WinwoodGraham Reid considers Steve Winwood's career from teenage soul-boy to mainstream man.13 May 07:00 PM
EntertainmentMovie Review: From Time to TimeJust as his latest television drama, Downton Abbey, hits our screens, so does writer and director Julian Fellowes' second feature film as director, the family-oriented period drama From Time to Time.13 May 07:00 PM
EntertainmentJulian Fellowes peers into the pastThe work of Oscar-winning writer Julian Fellowes is now on screens both big and small. He talks to Peter Calder about the revived appetite for period drama.13 May 07:00 PM
EntertainmentMovie Review: Hook, Line and SinkerTaylor and McGlone play P.J. and Ronnie, a modest suburban couple raising her teenage kids on his wages as a truckie and the proceeds of her small wedding dress business.13 May 07:00 PM
EntertainmentAlbum Review: Howe Gelb / A Band of Gypsies, AlegriasThe enormously prolific Howe Gelb is behind the Tucson band Giant Sand (from which Calexico became a more commercially successful split-off) and has also recorded a dozen albums under his own name.11 May 07:00 PM
EntertainmentAlbum Review: Katy B, On A MissionKaty B is a fairly unlikely gritty dubstep queen.11 May 07:00 PM
EntertainmentAlbum Review: Beastie Boys, Hot Sauce Committee Part TwoSlap this on in the car, turn it up to 11 and you're likely to find yourself back in the summer of 1989 with the window down, a sunburnt arm, and a sore throat from rapping along.11 May 07:00 PM
EntertainmentBook Review: <i>Caribou Island</i>The disintegration of American dreams into nightmares is the leitmotiv of this first novel. Its narrative punches you from the first paragraph: "I'm ten years old ... I opened our front door and found my mother hanging from the rafters..."11 May 05:30 PM
EntertainmentMovie Review: Hook, Line and SinkerThe first feature outing under the banner of the small, self-sustaining Wellington collective Torchlight Films was <i>Taking the Waewae Express</i>, a small and gutsy effort that took us into the lives of several young men.08 May 05:30 PM
EntertainmentMovie Review: Source Code"Just treat it like it's a game" says the guy who has woken up yet again on a Chicago commuter train in the body of another man.06 May 07:00 PM
