This small and absorbing Icelandic film is much more affecting than its modest ambitions may seem to promise.

By allowing the audience to decide how much they will pay for the show, Free Happiness poses a challenge that doubles as an attractive, if somewhat risky, marketing ploy.

COMMENT: The sisters' honesty and openness helps set Kitchen Diplomacy apart from the countless other travel and cooking shows on television.

Audiences have become accustomed to the seemingly inevitable triumph of Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's annual Opera in Concert.

Netflix's new show Stranger Things might just be the best series of 2016.

Deutsche Grammophon has taken Argentinian pianist Martha Argerich's 75th birthday very seriously. New releases include a Bueno Aires

Nicky Spence's impassioned performance of Andre Caplet's 1917 song-cycle, Les Prieres inevitably takes on new resonances, after an

The fine city of Toulouse, on the river Garonne, has an air of Italy about it. It is immensely proud of its Capitole, the long neo-classical

Macklemore is on a mission to use his voice for good.

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For what should be a simple exercise in soundtrack cash-ins, the Ghostbusters OST sure makes a mess of things.

Aaradhna's been through a lot and on Brown Girl she's intent on telling you all about it.

COMMENT: I was surprised at the news of the renewal of Filthy Rich, as I was far from the only critic to find the show a dated, horny mess.

A Time To Die (Hachette) Tom Wood $34.99 Englishman Wood says he got into the book business "to pen thrillers with the boring bits

Sinfonia Domestica of Richard Strauss offered 44 minutes of uber-romantic immersion in the second half of the NZSO's Mozart & Strauss concert.

The final of the Lexus Song Quest celebrated the competition's 60 years in style.

The story's 15-year-old detective suffers from acute Asperger's syndrome and his weirdly distorted perspective on life proves to be deeply revealing.

Australian producer Flume captivated a sellout crowd in Auckland, with dazzling visuals and beats that more than lived up to the hype.

Demolition has a great cast but a strange mix of drama and comedy that strangles this film.

Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's major 2016 commission, a sixth symphony by Ross Harris, was the musical and emotional core of Thursday's

Billy Crystal and an almost full ASB Theatre enjoyed a hugely satisfying mutual love affair on Thursday night.

The Cure delivered three hours of hit songs and obscure classics, delighting Kiwi fans at Auckland's Vector Arena.

A new TV series on Boomers and their lovely homes feels wrong amid the housing crisis they helped cause, says one TV critic.

This Australian drama is more affecting than its unattractive title and contrived set-up promised, thanks to LaPaglia.

Despite some solid leads, the new Star Trek films winds up being just a bit silly.

The three 20-something dudes sitting across from me on a couch in a D.C. hotel room don't look like movie stars.

COMMENT: The raw elements of all our reality television favourites all exist in farming, its huge potential hidden in plain sight all along.

Drawing on the notoriety of Jack the Ripper, Albert Belz' play Yours Truly uses various theories about who the murderer was.

Review: If you didn't know better, you might think it was a tasteless spoof.

Throughout, the album mixes romance and realism in such a clear-eyed manner that you can't help but be won over.