He could have turned up and played some records - or whatever they scratch and mash-up tunes on these days.

Peter Calder gets personal towards Morgan Spurlock, after Morgan Spurlock got personal towards Peter Calder.

Morgan Spurlock, the director of Super Size Me took your questions in a live chat today. Read what he had to say.

DJ Shadow promises new numbers and old favourites when he performs at The Powerstation on Wednesday.

It looks like we're in for some serious filmgoing weather for the next few days. We can count ourselves lucky that the snow won't keep Aucklanders away from the movies.

If there is any justice, the Sky City Theatre will be bulging at the seams for today's screening - the only one outside normal working hours - of Annie Goldson exquisitely restrained documentary Brother Number One.

What better way to celebrate the (perhaps mortal) wounding of the Murdoch monster and his son (does James really have a statue of Darth Vader in his office?) than by watching a documentary film called Tabloid.

Major blunder, verging on catastrophe. I have missed out on tickets to the 3D post-festival screenings of Werner Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams.

Disillusioned by their British label experience, Cut Off Your Hands have now returned with a new album and a brand new attitude. Jacqueline Smith reports.

The Civic was packed for the second and final screening of the new Terence Malick film The Tree of Life yesterday afternoon.

Oh come on. Who really has a stag do the night before their wedding? Hugh Sundae reviews last night's feature length episode.

The bane of the film reviewer's life is the preview in the middle of the film festival. Having already programmed three dozen or so festival movies in 17 days, I'm not very keen on having to go to the movies elsewhere.

It's a big day today, with 26 Festival films screening across Auckland.

Peter Calder blogs daily on the New Zealand International Film Festival in Auckland.

Twenty of the best local songs written in the last year are a step closer to a Silver Scroll award, with the release of the APRA Silver Scroll longlist this morning.

It's the end of the line for the Hogwart's Express and the beginning of a new chapter for Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint, the stars of 'Harry Potter.'

Kiwi icons such as Billy T James and Sir Edmund Hillary could soon grace the facades of Manhattan high-rises....

With a new role on hit US show 'Sons of Anarchy', Kiwi actor Joel Tobeck is riding high. He tells Alan Perrott why his aim is to make it for those he's loved and lost.

Highlights and results from the Grand National Final of the V48 Hours Furious Filmmaking Competition.

Musicians and media have hit out at plans to sell student radio station Radio One as an attack on the cultural heart of Dunedin.

If a nuclear war wipes out civilisation, then all that will remain are the cockroaches and Lemmy, proclaims a Motorhead fan at the beginning of this film.

And so to the most important film event of the week and - to the very many involved - the year.

Rapper Coco Solid is back with a new album, and she's releasing it on the humble cassette tape.

nzherald.co.nz is very pleased to present 'Choice Night', thanks to NZ On Screen and the New Zealand Film Commission.

Wellington's Head Like a Hole have put past woes behind them and made their best album yet, writes Scott Kara.

All the regional winners from this year's V48 Hours Furious Filmmaking competition have been revealed.

She wallowed in her self-pity and it produced some excellent tunes. Jacqueline Smith talks to singer songwriter Hollie Fullbrook, aka Tiny Ruins.

TimeOut writer Jacqueline Smith blogs on season three of New Zealand's Next Top Model.

ReQuest, the New Zealand hip hop dance crew who took on the world and won, are struggling to find the funds to defend their title.

The speed with which band can gain a following online is having unexpected side effect, writes Gillian Orr.