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Album Review: PJ Harvey <i>Let England Shake</i>
The Queen of Scream, PJ Harvey, reconnects with her folk-blues roots on her eighth album, Let England Shake.
Album Review: Faith Evans <i>Something About Faith</i>
It's been more than five years since Grammy Award-winning R&B singer Faith Evans put out her last album, the chart-topping First Lady, which spawned the hit Again.
Movie Review: Unknown
Last time Liam Neeson went on a violent romp around Europe he was desperately in search of his missing daughter in Taken.
Concert Review: Damian Marley and Nas, Logan Campbell Centre
Scott Kara reviews the Damian Marley and Nas concert from last night.
Album Review: Lord Echo <i>Melodies</i>
Rating: 4/5. Verdict: Black Seeds man reveals his diverse musical nous
Movie Review: Sanctum 3D
It's got James Cameron's endorsement and it's probably the first 3D scuba spelunking movie, ever.
Album Review: Ciara <i>Basic Instinct</i>
Rating: 2/5. Verdict: She should have stuck to the cameo
Movie Review: In A Better World
After her unprepossessing Hollywood debut, Things We Lost In The Fire, Danish director Bier goes back to her roots - the intense and emotionally literate ensemble dramas with which she made her name.
Album Review: The Twilight Singers <i>Dynamite Steps</i>
Rating: 4/5. Verdict: Welcome to the dark side
Album Review: The Streets <i>Computers and Blues</i>
Rating: 3/5. Verdict: Still clever and sometimes still annoying
Movie Review: No Strings Attached
Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher star in this lightweight and semi-raunchy romance from director and comedy veteran Ivan Reitman.
Album Review: Edie Brickell <i>Edie Brickell</i>
Rating: 3/5. Verdict: More low-key, and pleasant originals without much grip
Album Review: Funeral Party <i>The Golden Age of Knowledge</i>
Rating: 3/5. Verdict: Old, new boys of indie rock
Book Review: <i>We Had It So Good</i>
Here's a story about how to become middle-aged and middle-class - without noticing it.
TV Review: North
Harbour mastery Marcus Lush's North kicks off with a kindly look at a "poor-cousin" waterway, writes Deborah Hill Cone.
Album Review: Joan As Police Woman <i>The Deep Field</i>
Rating: 3/5. Verdict: Soul, funk and artful rock from the late Jeff Buckley's girlfriend
Album Review: Motorhead <i>The World Is Yours</i>
Rating: 4/5. Verdict: More blues. Less metal. Just as heavy.
Movie Review: <i>Gnomeo and Juliet 3D</i>
Romeo and Julietgets probably its kitschiest makeover yet, set in a world of garden gnomes. With music from Elton John, it's an unusual combination of tragedy, plaster and flamboyance.
Movie Review: <i>Fair Game</i>
Doug Liman, director of The Bourne Identity, takes a shot at a real life spy story in this political thriller about undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame.
Album Review: Jamie Foxx <i>Best Night of My Life</i>
Rating: 2.5/5. Verdict: Acting the young fool
Book Review: <i>A Man Melting</i>
Craig Cliff's first collection of stories heralds the arrival of an electrifying new voice on the New Zealand writing scene. These stories are standalone gems, but the collection also brings together satisfying harmonies as a whole.
Book Review: <i>Last Night in Twisted River</i>
John Irving is the king of the long, multilayered novel. In the tradition of Dickens, he cleverly weaves together the intricate threads of cross-generational storylines.
Book Review: <i>Crime</i>
There's the boy who kills sheep and gouges out their eyes. There's the young man who wishes literally to eat his girlfriend but who angrily denies he is a Hannibal Lecter figure.