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I am always wary when a film of notable scope and pedigree such as Silence is largely ignored during awards season. Either I'm reading

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A Kiwi woman is helping lift the lid on how pornography consumption is effecting young people in New Zealand.

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It's Oscar season and the nominated films are being released thick and fast. One of the contenders, Manchester by the Sea, is the

Among the hundreds of waka paddlers taking part in this year's Waitangi Day festivities will be half a dozen who stand out. They'll

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New Zealand's own Fleetwood Mac are set to release a new song. The Miltones, fronted by Milly Tabak, hark back to another age. The

Partly because of his prolific output, putting the needle on a new Neil Young album can be a bit of a lottery. Over recent times

The full stage schedule for Womad 2017 has been released, with headliners The Specials lined up to take the main stage on the first

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As she did back in 2001 with her second album Come Away with Me, Norah Jones is channelling the classic jazz artists who first inspired

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Lion is directed by a relative newcomer to the feature film set, Garth Davis, who has taken the reins of bringing the seemly impossible

If it seems like a long time since Sting delivered a rock album, it is. Mr Sumner was the mainstay as the bassist, singer and primary

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BASED ON THE SUCCESSFUL video game series of the same name, Assassin's Creed is another attempt by a studio to transfer onto the bigger

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