Auckland Film & TV News

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Win Tickets to The Past

Win one of five double passes to The Past which opens in cinemas on March 13.

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Win Tickets to The Rocket

The Rocket punches well above its weight with a compelling narrative, heartfelt performances and stunning cinematography.

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Wanted: The Best Deputy Editor in the Business

Are you an authority on pop culture, music, food, drink, events and city life?

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Terry Gilliam Goes Back to the Future with The Zero Theorem

Everything's normal when math whizz Christoph Waltz and David Thewlis in a tiger suit get together.

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Four Ideas from the Movie Her We Actually Want in Our Future

There are no dystopian trappings in Spike Jonze's vision of the future.

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Samantha Jones Hilariously Dirties Up Spike Jonze’s Film Her

Theodore Twombly's new artificially intelligent operating system is crude, lewd and incredibly rude.

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Latest Guides

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Eleven Films and TV Shows You Need to Stream This Month

Spend your couch time watching Andrew Scott step into Tom Ripley's shoes, a shattering docuseries about Nickelodeon's kids TV hits and Colin Farrell as a PI.
Guide
Must-Stream TV: All the Best Shows You Should Be Watching From 2024 So Far

Don't spend hours scrolling through streaming platforms — here's 2024 standout shows that you need to see.
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Eleven Films and TV Shows You Need to Stream in March

Spend your couch time watching Adam Sandler in space, a stunning Oscar-winning documentary, girl group-fuelled sitcom hilarity and Noel Fielding's latest show.
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Hop to It: 16 Classic and Eclectic Films You Can Stream This Easter Long Weekend

Some feature bunnies. Some include eggs or chocolate. Some have provocative takes on religion.
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Nine 2024 Oscar-Winning Films That You Can and Should Watch Immediately

'Oppenheimer', an astonishing Ukraine-set documentary, a Wes Anderson short, Emma Stone's most-spectacular performance yet: they each won 2024 Oscars, and you can check them them all now.
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Say Cheers to Hollywood's Night of Nights: Concrete Playground's Oscars 2024 Drinking Game

Whether you're hoping that 'Oppenheimer', 'Barbie', 'Poor Things', 'Past Lives' or something else picks up Academy Awards, here's how to sip along.
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Predicting the Oscars: Who Should, Could and Will Win at the 2024 Academy Awards

Will 'Oppenheimer' sweep the Oscars? What else will win? What should but won't? Here are our predictions.
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Here's Where You Can Watch 32 of 2024's Oscar-Nominated Movies in New Zealand Right Now

From 'Barbenheimer' and twists on 'Frankenstein' to animated 'Spider-Man' antics and devastating documentaries, here's where to watch 2024's Oscar contenders.
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Ten Films and TV Shows You Need to Stream in February

Spend your couch time watching the new 'Mr & Mrs Smith', one of this year's Oscar Best Picture nominees and a stellar new space thriller.
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Ten Films and TV Shows You Need to Stream in January

Spend your couch time watching an Oscar-nominated true tale, the 'Boy Swallows Universe' TV series and the stunning return of 'True Detective'.

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How War Became Both Beautiful and Traumatic for The Railway Man

Jonathan Teplitzky on war, visual irony and how Gen Ys respond to silence.

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Five New TV Shows We Can’t Wait to Watch in 2014

Goodbye free time, hello new TV.

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Eight Things That Made the 2014 Golden Globes Totally Worth It

Don't worry, one of them is J-Law.

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Tim Minchin to Turn Groundhog Day into a Musical

The same songs over and over again?

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Macaulay Culkin Unveils Debut Music Video for Pizza Underground

Well now we just want pizza.

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Win One of Five Dregs Graffiti Documentaries

Good fortune awaits you.

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Latest Places

Restaurant
This That

57 Lorne St , Auckland City

A glimmer of hope for what the rest of Lorne Street could soon become.
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Scarlett Slimms & Lucky

476 Mt Eden Rd, Auckland

Scarlett Slimms and Lucky is a haunt for the modern day Raymond Chandler.
Bar
Cassette Nine

Vulcan Lane, Auckland

Any place that can pull off jeans as wallpaper has two thumbs up in my book.
Restaurant
Miss Clawdy

12 Jellicoe Street, Auckland

There is a sassy new lady in town ready to serve you some good ol' fashioned soul food. Introducing Miss Clawdy, the newest feather in Wynyard Quarter's culinary cap.

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Viewers Gross’d Out By New Grill’d Ad

Responsible meat eating, or just icky?

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Ubiquitous Sriracha Sauce Now Has Its Own Documentary Film

Your favourite condiment is now a movie star.

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Netflix to Produce Its First Adult Animation, BoJack Horseman

We aren't horsing around, Netflix has a new animated series that's darkly humorous.

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Win Tickets to See 20 Feet From Stardom

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Mila Kunis Is a Janitor/Queen in the Wachowskis’ New Jupiter Ascending

Check out the next future the Matrix makers have in store for us.

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See Mia Wasikowska Walk Across the Outback in the First Trailer for Tracks

Mia Wasikowska enters an entirely different (and far dustier) wonderland.

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Latest Events

Event
Boy Kills World

Thursday, May 2 - Wednesday, May 22, 2024
Various cinemas in Auckland, Auckland

Bill Skarsgård makes a mesmerising action star in this cartoonishly OTT revenge flick that's produced by iconic 'Evil Dead' filmmaker Sam Raimi.
Event
The Fall Guy

Wednesday, April 24 - Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Various cinemas in Auckland, Auckland

Ryan Gosling is at his most charming — including while batting around screwball banter with Emily Blunt — in this dynamic action/rom-com ode to stunt performers.
Event
Challengers

Thursday, April 18 - Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Various cinemas in Auckland, Auckland

For 'Call Me By Your Name' director Luca Guadagnino, Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist star in a smash of a tennis- and love triangle-fuelled drama.
Event
Back to Black

Thursday, May 2 - Wednesday, May 22, 2024
Various cinemas in Auckland, Auckland

Amy Winehouse was anything but formulaic, but the same can't be said about this by-the-numbers biopic about the British singer.
Event
Robot Dreams

Thursday, April 25 - Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Various cinemas in Auckland, Auckland

This Oscar-nominated animated gem explores love, loneliness, finding a connection and facing fate's chaos through the friendship of a dog and a robot.
Event
Lovers and Castaways

Wednesday, March 6 - Sunday, June 9, 2024
The Pah Homestead, Auckland

This exhibition allows visitors to experience 1980s Aotearoa through the eyes of some of New Zealand's most treasured artists.
Event
The Effect — Auckland Theatre Company

Tuesday, April 16 - Saturday, May 11, 2024
ASB Waterfront Theatre, Auckland

This ethically ambiguous, toxic love story is the work of Lucy Prebble, one of the brains behind HBO’s ‘Succession’.

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Event
Aotearoa High Tea in The Libraries at The Hotel Britomart

Saturday, March 16, 2024, Saturday, April 13, 2024 and Sunday, May 12, 2024
The Hotel Britomart, Auckland

Enjoy some of Aotearoa's best food in the elegant, heritage spaces of The Libraries.

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The Hunger Games Luxury Chocolates Are the Most Delicious Movie Tie-In

Because you certainly want to know what District 12 tastes like.

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Michel Gondry’s New Film Is Just Him Trying to Keep Up with Noam Chomsky

Michel Gondry doodles along to Noam Chomsky's deepest thoughts.

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Silo Cinema Launches 2013 Schedule

Friday night Silo Cinema is back and you know what that means - summer is on its way. If you've recently moved to Auckland or if you've been living under a rock, it's the weekly event where you can watch movies for free projected onto Wynyard Quarter's Silo 7.

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Wes Anderson’s Grand Budapest Hotel Promises More Pastel Good Times

Time for another wild, pastel adventure with Wes Anderson.

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Why Beyond: Two Souls Should Be the First Video Game You Play

You'll want to see Ellen Page's Oscar-worthy performance, for one thing.

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GTA 5 Spawns Contemplative Fine Art Photography

Ah, the poignancy of Grand Theft Auto V.

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A Vast Collection of ‘O’ Faces Perfectly Promotes Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac

Awkward.

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Lessons in Life and Movies from Iconic ’80s Filmmaker John Landis

Some candid advice from the man who gave us The Blues Brothers and Thriller.

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Telekinesis Tears a Cafe Apart in Hilarious Viral Ad

An internet video advertisement for the soon-to-be released Carrie remake brings the scares to the streets.

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Concrete Playground Meets David Dallas

We caught up with David Dallas about his recent collaboration with G-Shock.

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Gravity Presents the Most Terrifying Film Promotion Ever

Life is impossible in space. Experience that impossibility.

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The New App That Stops Breaking Bad Spoilers

Behind on Breaking Bad eps? Now you can check your news feed without fear.

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NZ Drug Driving Ad Goes Viral

Drive safe y'all.

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Devastating and Beautiful Animated Ad Will Turn You Off Factory Farming

An ad for a popular fast food chain that might just make you cry.

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Watch a Film Set Entirely on a Computer Screen on Your Computer Screen

Watch a movie about being online whilst online. META.

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Mind-Bending Timelapse Shows a Whole Life in One Face

Imagine if you could see a full lifetime's ageing process happen before your very eyes. Well, you sort of can.

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Arcade Fire’s Mesmerising Smartphone-Interactive Video for ‘Reflektor’

A short film whose visuals you can affect, just so long as you have three basics of the modern tech era.

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Last Hayao Miyazaki Film to Be Released in 2014

There's good news, and there's bad news.

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Concrete Playground meets David Wenham

Best known for his role as Faramir in Lord of the Rings, and voted as Australia's Sexiest Man Alive, Concrete Playground talks to to one of Australia's best creative exports.

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Ten Reasons to Visit the Auckland Art Fair 2013

From monkeys painting to glamorous opening parties, Concrete Playground chats with Jana Beer, publications editor for Auckland Art Fair 2013, for the ten best reasons to visit the 2013 Auckland Art Fair.

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Concrete Playground Meets Film Director Tim Van Dammen

We sat down with Tim to find out a bit more about Romeo and Juliet: A Love Song ahead of its 2013 New Zealand International Film Festival premiere.

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The Dissolve Just Raised the Film Discussion Bar on the Internet

The newest jargon-free online haven for cinephile conversation.

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Ten Must See Films at the NZ International Film Festival 2013

It's never easy to choose which films to see but to help you along the way, here are the Concrete Playground top ten picks.

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Universal’s New Funhouse Is a Cabin in the Woods

Covering your eyes in the tense bits won't help you out of this one.

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