Before they'd even put a toe in the water this week, the Wet Hot Beauties were the media's feel-good, sold-out hit of the summer.

The avant-garde end of Fringe Fest spectrum finds an appropriate niche with a free event held at the base of the stairs that link Saint Kevin's Arcade with Myers Park.

David Larsen talks to career film buff David Thomson about his revised classic.

One of the many funny lines in the profanity-strewn satirical film In The Loop came from the character Jamie Macdonald, the senior press officer in 10 Downing St and the "angriest man in Scotland".

The 37-year-old supermodel and fiancé Jamie Hince have reportedly told pal Tracey Emin to display her work at the reception to celebrate their nuptials.

Rising star Dominic Cooper plays dumb in new Brit comedy Tamara Drewe - and brutal in Lee Tamahori's film about the son of Saddam Hussein. By Stephen Jewell.

Elizabeth Marvelly launches her second album, this time of familiar Kiwi standards.

A photo exhibition about flowers is the result of a life-changing experience for Joanne Cunningham.

One of the biggest film festivals in the world started with a red carpet première of US blockbuster True Grit on Thursday in Berlin. Celebrities, star-crazed fans and journalists with silly questions, packed the German capital.

To some they're ugly scrawls that desecrate the urban landscape, to others they're street art. Paula Yeoman looks at the graffiti debate.

Regan Cameron is one of New Zealand’s most successful exports, yet most of us don’t even know his name.

Japanese ceramics artist Asumi Mizuo has found a unique way to create beauty out of imperfection.