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One hundred years since actor Richard Burton was born, this film tells the tale of how he emerged from a Welsh working class town, and the man who helped him on his way to international stardom.

How do you make something compelling if you already know what happens? Sky’s new football documentary avoids the pitfalls that hold other sports docos back.

If you've watched any of the leading television shows in the past 25 years, it's likely Lesli Linka Glatter had a hand in directing them.

Jane Austen Wrecked My Life is a French film about a fan of the great novelist, who goes to England as part of an Austen residency and soon her life starts to echo an Austen romance. But which one?

Korean pop idols compete to put a new spin on classic pop hits in the Apple TV+ show.

Since the kids' puppet show first aired in 1969, its sophisticated songs have lived rent-free in many a brain.

Eddington, set in New Mexico during the dark days of the 2020 pandemic, shows a country losing its mind.

The Netflix animated film KPop Demon Hunters is the streamer's most-watched original film.

The new expensive-looking TV version of the Aliens movie franchise has some cool actors - including a Kiwi - doing some interesting things.

This may fall slightly short of the original, but it remains a fun comedy very much worth seeing. In a packed theatre.

Hollywood filmmaker Quentin Tarantino has revealed which of his movies he thinks is the best –and it’s probably not the one you’d expect.

Forever Auckland FC - a new Sky Open show about our local football team's epic first season - will appeal to fans of Ted Lasso, says producer Dame Julie Christie.

A new three-part documentary series, Fit for TV: The Reality of the Biggest Loser, reveals the toxicity behind the scenes by speaking to former winners, contestants, team doctors and experts.

In a nearly two-hour interview with her boyfriend Travis Kelce and his brother Jason Kelce, the pop star was excited and emotional - and not just about her new album.

A writer reluctantly inherits man’s other best friend in this New York-set tale, starring Naomi Watts and Bill Murray and Bingo the Great Dane.

In Here We Go we meet the Jessop family as they stumble through their mishap strewn, semi-detached suburban life.

Director Miki Magasiva says the achievement is a "huge milestone" and he's still overwhelmed by the continued success.

26-year-old Cassie Henderson recently won Best Pop Artist at the Aotearoa Music Awards. She sang Chappell Roan’s ‘Good Luck, Babe!’ on the Aussie talent show.

Australian actor Dacre Montgomery returns to the screen with gothic horror Went Up the Hill and finds himself healing while filming in Canterbury during lockdown.

Nicknamed the 'Hot Wiggle' by adult fans, John Pearce is proud to be the first-ever Australian Filipino member of the children's superband.

Like many parents, Andrew* and Maggie* battled with their child over his creeping device time.

Ben MacDonald said he would never do MasterChef again, especially if he had children. Eleven years and two kids later he tied up the apron strings and headed back to the esteemed Melbourne kitchen.

Freakier Friday is a bubbly, quippy, Disney Channel-style blend of bright colours, battle-of-the-generations comedy and a Chappell Roan soundtrack.

NZ On Air has announced close to $2.8 million of taxpayer money is slated for local productions Celebrity Treasure Island and The Traitors NZ - a first for the competitive reality series.

When animated series Invincible flips the Superman story on its head, planet-shaking melodrama and mayhem ensues.

The French are famously keen on the psychological dramas of le maître Alfred Hitchcock – most of their top directors have at least one such film on their CVs.

When two dames of the arts met for the first time in 2021 at a Rita Angus retrospective the idea for Grace: A Prayer for Peace was born.

A new study reveals, the popular animated Aussie pup isn’t just entertaining kids, she’s modelling how to to deal with life’s ups and downs.

New Zealanders Sam Neill and Guy Montgomery won at this year's Logies.

Do you stick with a classic franchise you've seen a million times? Or would you dare to opt for a disaster movie mid-air?

In the intimate two-part series Motuhaketanga, three women navigate the realities of life after lock-up, including probation check-ins, job hunting, broken trust, child reunifications, and quiet moments of doubt and pride.

Jason Momoa’s historical epic Chief of War, launching August 1 on Apple TV+, is a triumph of Hawaiians telling their own stories – despite the fact their film and TV production industry now struggles to be viable.

Adam Sandler's return as the eponymous golfer is a breezy and intermittently funny comedy that sticks to the playbook of every decades-later sequel.

Korean TV show Chef & My Fridge is good ‘couch potato’ weekend fodder and it might inspire you to get creative with those leftover ingredients lurking in the fridge.

Just when you thought the Lord of the Rings product train had run out of steam, Wētā Workshop has more.

Why do some of us crave surprise and suspense, while others find comfort in instant resolution? (This article contains spoilers!)

"There are moments when you feel trapped by the life that you are on as if it is a commuter train ride in and back every day and you go in, you give the best of yourself to your work and you come home tired in the evening."

Marvel's first family is back on the big screen with a retro aesthetic, a star-studded cast and a hunger to wipe the superhero movie slate clean.

Two New Zealanders have taken home one of the top prizes in the Spiel des Jahres, an annual awards event considered the Oscars of the board game world.

Charlie Ross-Matenga, from the Manawatū-Whanganui region, has been mad about the spinning tops since the age of 8. He will now head to Japan to compete.

Analysis: For the second time in five years, a major New Zealand media company has been offloaded by overseas owners for a single dollar. What does Sky buying Three - and the other Warner Bros Discovery channels - mean for the industry, and for viewers?

The second season of reality show This is Wheel Life follows the recent law school graduate’s life as she navigates all the experiences of a person in their 20s.

This feature documentary looks into the systematic dehumanisation of children in New Zealand by the state.

In Matthew Rankin’s film Universal Language a heartbroken man goes home to Winnipeg in snowy Manitoba – but it’s not what you might expect.

Rebel Wilson stars in this misfire about a society wedding which is saved from terrorists by one of the bridesmaids – a secret agent on her day off.

It comes just two weeks after the parent company of CBS, Paramount, settled a lawsuit lodged by President Trump against CBS News.

Auckland film buffs decry "weird" and "offensive" AI-generated video of Russell Crowe screened before movie.

If action aplenty and a dash of baroque violence are your thing, then gang fam series Mobland will do the trick nicely.

Kiwi Shayni Couch lost her husband in a Basejump gone wrong while she was pregnant. A new documentary follows her journey to return to the site where he died.

Songs by Huntr/x and the Saja Boys are rising on the charts above well-known artists like ROSE, Bruno Mars and Justin Bieber.

Violence in movies and video games normalises a culture of cruelty says Dr Henry Giroux, a leading voice on education, media, and democracy.

The controversial creator behind the 2012 millennial satire is back making semi-autobiographical comedy. Do we finally understand her?

The nods for Outstanding Special Visual Effects are for its work on the second seasons of TV shows House of the Dragon and The Last of Us.

Apple TV+ series Severance was the most-nominated series, notching 27 nominations. The Penguin scored 24 nominations, The White Lotus and The Studio both bagged 23 nominations.

Man’s best (super)friend has prime placement in the new Superman movie, and the pooch’s path to the cinematic spotlight may be worth a movie itself.

Opinion - No mode of cinema has ever felt more craven and creatively bereft than live action remakes of animation - these abominations are anti-cinema and anti-art, writes Dominic Corry.

Doc Edge has screened the documentary, despite a request from the Consulate-General of China in Auckland to not do so.

The image of the long-haired, long-limbed young woman in a bikini swimming above an outsized great white shark is not a new one.

When a TV3 show about a raucous West Auckland family launched in 2005, Kiwi viewers fell hard for its mix of hilarious, relatable and uncomfortable moments.

There’s an impending natural disaster. There are two countries going to war. There’s a rich, arrogant billionaire tech bro who wants to rule the world. This sounds like a job for Superman!

How does Nintendo's fastest-selling console ever stack up after a few weeks?

Superman’s set to soar in a new movie, but he’s already been flying high for decades. Here’s a primer to catching up on the hero’s screen and comic book adventures. Up, up and away!

South Auckland's Tōtara Hospice - where Dr Jap is Medical Director - is the setting for the new TV show Hospice Heroes.

Although his father once threatened to break his legs for dancing, Ahmad Joudeh fought for a life where he could perform in peace.

The South Korean thriller series perfectly captures how money affects every decision we make.

If Richard O’Brien had landed the role of Herod in Jesus Christ Superstar his smash cult musical The Rocky Horror Show might never have happened, he says.

Over ten million French cinema-goers can't be wrong, this latest French-made version of the Alexander Dumas classic novel is a swash buckling winner, writes Simon Morris.

For more than a decade, South Korean director Hwang Dong-hyuk couldn't convince a studio to fund his film project about a brutal game show that preyed on society's most vulnerable.

Emily Fryer and Sarah Mosley are so obsessed with the toy bricks, they've even made them into wearable accessories for themselves.

The global rise of a small subset of K-dramas is impacting the entire Korean TV landscape – and it’s not all for the best.

Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later gets a reboot as a post-zombie apocalypse England retreats into a new Dark Age.

For the Māori family at the heart of Dead Ahead, the presence of the dead is not "Disneyfied" or scary, says writer and co-creator Scotty Cotter.

Dom Corry takes his twelve-year-old niece Maddy along to check out the latest iteration of the Karate Kid franchise.

Brad Pitt cements his image as the overconfident, middle-aged male ideal in a film that's also a billboard.

If you grew up on a diet of Taggart and Cracker, or have a taste for Scandi thrillers, this Scottish-set series will be right up your alley.

It’s another big year for women’s rugby, so it’s fitting that a documentary about its grassroots is now out.

Have you ever heard of a movie trailer so popular that it forced a studio to re-release a 23-year-old film?

Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont-Spelling Bee has earned the Kiwi comedian a Logie nomination for Most Popular New Talent at the prestigious Australian television awards.

Grow a Garden, a Roblox game where players plant virtual seeds and grow exotic plants, had 20 million people playing it at once last weekend.

Celine Song's Materialists asks can you find love if you already know all the angles?

The new local feature film Kōkā is a story "infused with aroha" says its proud Ngāti Porou director.

Materialists may star Hollywood heart-throbs, but it's not quite what it appears. Director Celine Song talks about making a rom-com that shows the reality of modern dating.

The remake of How To Train Your Dragon sticks close to the blueprint, but is missing one elusive ingredient - originality.

My list for the year thus far managed to miss a couple of great remakes of classics by Ang Lee – The Wedding Banquet – and Homer – The Return. I thought Firebrand was a good picture of a forgotten Tudor and Bird was a reminder of how good Andrea Arnold is. My biggest regret is the shortage of decent comedies. Is Sean Baker the 21st Century’s Billy Wilder? Maybe. The competition isn’t particularly fierce yet.

Like other quirky TV shows that explore coercively controlling groups, Sirens leans into the “wackiness” of cult life.

Narrowing down to just 10 shows was no easy task, this could have easily been a Top 20 list without breaking a sweat. Nevertheless, hard decisions had to be made. So here are the 10 shows we consider the best of the year so far.

World-renowned mountaineer Mingma Tsiri's quest to bring back the dead from the world's highest peak is documented in a new film.

The pioneering documentarian says he made his latest film Separated was driven by a “feeling of growing horror” at the United States' government's immigration policies.

Aussie horror flick Dangerous Animals is the latest in the ever popular shark attack oeuvre, Dominic Corry looks at some of the best post-Jaws movies.

As each episode of The Pitt finishes, I wipe the sweat (and sometimes tears) from my face, take a sip of water and get ready for another hour in the ED.

Do spoilers need to shut their big mouths, or do spoiler-phobes need to get over it? We investigate.

Meet the Bay of Plenty possum-trapper who's just become the first Kiwi to win a season of hit survival show Alone.

Inspired by millennial television shows like Gossip Girl, The Sender, which tackles online abuse is aimed squarely at a Gen Z audience.

Thanks to a hi-tech inflatable raft and a support crew, 'Yak' can once again paddle down a raging river.

In 1971, John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono swapped their Ascot mansion and 70-acre estate for a two-room loft in New York's Greenwich Village.

Kōkā is a New Zealand road movie featuring two very different women, writes Simon Morris.

Pike River follows the real-life fight for justice by Anna Osborne and Sonya Rockhouse who lost loved ones in the 2010 mining disaster.

You’ll either go to Anderson’s idea of a '30s-style thriller because of Anderson, or you’ll stay away for the same reason.

The broadcaster reckons he is "quite similar" to the charismatic and well-loved host of the British version of the show, Bradley Walsh.

In Stories of Surrender, Bono appears solo on stage, sharing stories, jokes and songs that illuminate what life is like for the man behind the sunglasses.

Fans have been left 'heartbroken' and angry at the surprise Doctor Who finale.

The 47-year-old, who has been undergoing treatment for incurable cancer for years, was one of 188 New Zealanders honoured for their community contributions.

The new Lilo & Stitch's formula is simple: remove everything that could possibly offend anyone, replace the personalised hand-drawn animation with expensive, photo-realistic CGI, add in a little slapstick and a Bruno Mars song.

Praise be! The series finale of The Handmaid's Tale has dropped and it's the last time we have to sit in a full body clench of anxiety waiting to find out what becomes of June Osborne and her band of rebel handmaids.

There are striking differences between the fanfare and cultural symbolism of earlier seasons of The Handmaid's Tale and its middling finale. How did the show lose its way?

Samoan-Kiwi filmmaker Tuki Laumea checks in with indigenous communities in ten Pacific nations for a new Al Jazeera documentary series.

As a film adaptation of her best-selling memoir screens in cinemas, Raynor Winn reflects on her “gruesome” but life-changing 1,014km coastal trek with husband Moth.

A few years on from The Idol, The Weeknd's newest project seems hell-bent on ruining whatever's left of his audience goodwill.

Is it really the 'final reckoning'? We can but hope, writes film critic Simon Morris.

The NZ Film Commission says the win shows our film sector's reputation for celebrating indigenous storytelling and exceptional leaders.

As Tom Cruise's muscular action franchise reaches its ostensible conclusion – although let's face it: if this one does well, they'll totally come back – it's worth taking stock of the journey taken to get here.

A new award-winning Netflix documentary offers an intimate look at the men's struggles, triumphs and sense of pride in creating something beautiful while behind bars.

First reviews are saying the movie more than lives up to its steamroller hype with one critic calling its action sequences “astonishing” and "just insane".

The US comedian was lured here by the hunt for a guy named Riley who lives in a converted shipping container in Hokitika and poops in a bucket.

Star of the Wellington based drama, Robyn Malcolm, says she hopes this will open doors for New Zealand dramas and writers.

In 2025, the world’s entire catalogue of television is just a click away. So why is that we keep skipping the latest series in favour of old favourites?

Josh Grossberg, a New York-based documentarian and journalist, has been on exhaustive search to find the “Holy Grail of cinema.”

The beloved presenter's latest film is about the glory of the watery world that feeds us, cleans our air and could save us from climate catastrophe. But also about how we are killing it.

Thunderbolts* is the 36th or 37th official Marvel Comics feature, since Kevin Feige started the ball rolling in 2008 with Iron Man - and with each new title Feige’s Cinematic Universe gets more cumbersome and more complex.

For her debut feature documentary about indie folk singer Marlon Williams, Ursula Grace Williams (no relation) wanted to show an artist living his real yet extraordinary life.

If you like the John Wick genre of movie-making, new Netflix offering Havoc might spark joy, says Simon Morris.

The deeply private musician pulls back the curtain on his personal life in a moving new film that tells the story of his bid to reclaim his reo.

Smear campaigns, politicking, gossip and blackmail: Conclave had it all.

The Black Panther director's latest film is such a fresh take on standard genre tropes that you feel like you are watching something brand new.

For once, the marketing hype is real: Warfare, the latest A24 thriller, is one of the most realistic depictions of modern military combat committed to screen.

Bailey Poching plays a radio DJ looking for love in Netflix's new Arctic comedy. The actor, who identifies as Samoan and Māori, relished the role which brings Indigenous communities together.

After the first Smell-O-Vision film was dissed by critics in 1960, the idea of adding aromas to the cinematic experience seemed a bit silly - but at an upcoming screening of Nosferatu, Wellingtonians will give it a go.

For many, it's going to be a wet and wild Easter. Plonk on the couch and pick from our favourites screening over the weekend or new to TV this week.

The Correspondent tells the true story of an Australian journalist and the war on journalism.

Actors Bella Ramsey and Kaitlyn Dever give us the lowdown on the eagerly awaited second series of the hit zombie survival show.

Twelve young Māori and Muslims who share a passion come together in a new documentary series to show how they can connect despite differences.