Category Archives: Movies and Entertainment

This was a kids concert and the Opera House was full of excited youngsters who never tempered their enthusiasm over what was, for such a youthful audience, a longish affair. I went with my six-year-old granddaughter, and she loved it to bits.

By about a third of the way through Sunday’s stirring docu-drama Pirates of the Airwaves, TV One, it became fairly obvious that this would have been better done as a movie.

A lead actor known for playing the slovenly sidekick, a director who only made small films, a talking raccoon and a 1970s pop music soundtrack – together they form an unlikely tableau for a mega-budget space adventure movie. And yet, Marvel Studios banked on these outliers for its $US170 million ($181m) launch of the new franchise

Benny Tipene will perform with American Authors and Andy Grammer in Auckland in September. Tipene, from Palmerston North, shot to local fame after appearing on New Zealand’s The X Factor.

Kiefer Sutherland’s 24 co-star Louis Lombardi says he’s “one of the most professional actors ever”.

Why does

Kendall Jenner has blamed her famous siblings for damaging her modelling career. The 18-year-old reality star has made a name for herself as a high fashion model in recent months, walking the runway for labels such as Chanel and Marc Jacobs

Director Ridley Scott’s new biblical blockbuster,