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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.

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>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.

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.

Album Review: Jessica Lea Mayfield <i>Tell Me</i>

Mayfield was just a teenager when a copy of an album she'd recorded in her bedroom fell into the hands of Dan Auerbach from The Black Keys.

Movie Review: Gnomeo and Juliet

This intermittently charming animated offering from Disney relocates Shakespeare's famous love story to the secret world of garden gnomes, then adds Elton John music.

Album Review: Iron and Wine <i>Kiss Each Other Clean</i>

Rating: 4/5. Verdict: Folk fellow finds the funk on his fifth.

Album Review: White Lies <i>Ritual</i>

Rating: 3.5/5. Verdict: Still dour, but more diverse second offering from London trio

Movie Review: <i>True Grit</i>

Jeff Bridges' Cogburn retains the Wayne eyepatch and the girth but he's not up for the carbine twirl.

Movie Review: <i>Fela!</i>

Fela Kuti was a revolutionary and a rogue. And man, could the Nigerian musician and pioneer of Afro-beat sing, dance and play saxophone.

Album Review: Wanda Jackson <i>The Party Ain't Over</i>

Rating: 4/5. Verdict: Get down with the coolest grandma.

Movie Review: <i>127 Hours</i>

Director Danny Boyle goes from a cast of many with Slumdog Millionaire to pretty much a cast of one, in an intense tale of survival that takes the saying "I'd give my right arm ..." to a new level.

Concert Review: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, <i>Auckland Town Hall</i>

Concert Review: Les Savy Fav <i>Kings Arms Tavern</i>

With so much of Auckland's attention focused on Monday's Laneway Festival, it was always going to be interesting to see how Les Savy Fav's first New Zealand show was going to go.

Concert Review: Laneway Festival

The Laneway Festival was loud and proud yesterday and in the process it found its home in the newly revamped Aotea Square.