EntertainmentSa Dingding - HarmonyThe debut album Alive of two years ago by this photogenic Chinese singer was a mish-mash of electro-pop, slightly twee vocals, Chinese folk, new age blandness and deadening over-production.24 Mar 03:00 PM
EntertainmentPig Out - Rave XLet's take a trip back in time to when ravers wore gas masks, and if you weren't wearing a mask you were blowing a whistle, while dancing to yabbering happy hardcore and banging beats that send you raving mad.24 Mar 03:00 PM
EntertainmentBeach House - Teen DreamBaltimore duo Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally produce the kind of music that confuses your sound receptors at the same time as comforting them.24 Mar 03:00 PM
EntertainmentGoldfrapp - Head FirstIt's been a decade since British electronic act Goldfrapp - singer, synth player and clothes horse Alison Goldfrapp and producer Will Gregory - released their debut album Felt Mountain.24 Mar 03:00 PM
EntertainmentHow To Train Your Dragon 3DBased on the best-selling kid's book by Cressida Cowell, <i>How To Train Your Dragon</i> comes wonderfully to life on the big screen thanks to fabulous 3D computer animation, great voices, a story full of adventure, and plucky young her24 Mar 03:00 PM
EntertainmentNZ Arts Festival: <i>Frisky and Mannish</i> reviewFrisky and Mannish are musically adroit, vocally gifted and brilliant mimics teaching Pop Philosophy 101 at fast forward and delivered on high rotate.18 Mar 09:13 PM
EntertainmentThe Boys Are BackThe source of this surprisingly affecting family drama was the book The Boys Are Back In Town, by English journalist Simon Carr, who worked as Jim Bolger's speechwriter in the early 1990s.17 Mar 03:00 PM
EntertainmentThe RoadThe film of Cormac McCarthy's howlingly bleak apocalyptic novel is, first and foremost, a triumph of location scouting (the process by which film-makers find where they are going to set their shoot).17 Mar 03:00 PM
EntertainmentNZ Arts Festival: Thrill of a premiere shouldn't be underestimatedThe risk is part of the itching in the oyster shell that makes the pearl. It's an essential part of what makes the performing arts so exciting.13 Mar 02:25 AM
EntertainmentNZ Arts Festival: <i>360</i> reviewAuckland's Nightsong Productions and Theatre Stampede have premiered in Wellington a joyous, theatrical tour de force.12 Mar 08:20 PM
EntertainmentNZ Arts Festival: <i>Calexico</i> reviewCalexico's instrumentals get the best reaction - with guitar twangs and big-echo whistling, whip-cracks and rodeo yelps - writes Chris Bourke.11 Mar 08:24 PM
EntertainmentJimi Hendrix - Valleys of NeptuneGiven there's hardly been a shortage of Hendrix albums since his death in 1970, the question is: Why had this album gained so much attention?11 Mar 03:00 PM
EntertainmentNZ Arts Festival: <i>11 and 12</i> reviewMark Amery reviews <i>11 and 12</i> at the New Zealand Arts Festival.11 Mar 03:01 AM
EntertainmentThis Way of Life (Documentary)The Karena family dynamics are captured on film.10 Mar 03:00 PM
EntertainmentMao's Last DancerThe dancing sequences are sublime in <i>Mao's Last Dancer</i>.10 Mar 03:00 PM
EntertainmentRemember Me<i>Twilight</i> star Robert Pattinson proves he's more than just every teenage girl's favourite vampire.10 Mar 03:00 PM
EntertainmentNZ Arts Festival: <i>Sing the Truth</i> review<i>Sing the Truth</i> is a tribute to feisty, brilliant jazz diva Nina Simone.07 Mar 08:20 PM
EntertainmentAn edition to savourDavid Eggleton, who has edited the latest Landfall (it now has a revolving editor), has produced a mix of writers that is immensely satisfying.03 Mar 03:00 PM
EntertainmentNZ Arts Festival: <i>Inside out</i> reviewThe carny folk have come to Wellington, all sweat, glitter and sawdust.01 Mar 06:30 PM
EntertainmentGalactic - Ya-ka-mayThis brassy gumbo of styles comes off like a rollicking block party.01 Mar 03:00 PM
EntertainmentScalper - Flesh & BonesScalper - real name Nadeem Shafi - was born and bred in east London and is of Pakistani descent.28 Feb 03:00 PM
EntertainmentWords that speak volumes<b><i>Paula Green reviews four new collections of poems</i></b>28 Feb 03:00 PM
EntertainmentMidlake - The Courage Of OthersThe music these cloaked and hooded Texans conjure up is stunning in its tranquility.27 Feb 03:00 PM
EntertainmentMegasus - MegasusMegasus play slovenly and unhinged music, almost to the point where the songs fall apart.24 Feb 03:00 PM
EntertainmentCrazy HeartSome have likened <i>Crazy Heart</i> to <i>The Wrestler</i> with more interesting songs, and there are similarities in an abusive lifestyle which really has no style at all.24 Feb 03:00 PM
EntertainmentGone with the WomanThe difference between the sexes is at the heart of this offbeat and charming Norwegian romantic comedy by director Petter Naess.24 Feb 03:00 PM
EntertainmentMassive Attack - HeligolandWhile Massive Attack's fifth album doesn't have the anthemic tunes of early albums Blue Lines and Protection, making it a return to form for the Bristol band.17 Feb 03:00 PM
