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NewsConcrete 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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NewsTen 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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NewsConcrete 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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NewsThe Dissolve Just Raised the Film Discussion Bar on the Internet
The newest jargon-free online haven for cinephile conversation.
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NewsTen 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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NewsTen Films and TV Shows You Need to Stream This Month
Spend your couch time watching the delicious return of 'The Bear', Glen Powell playing a fake hitman and Lily Gladstone's latest excellent performance.
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NewsTen Films and TV Shows You Need to Stream in May
Spend your couch time watching a documentary about Jim Henson and an Elisabeth Moss-led spy thriller.
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GuideMust-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's standout shows that you need to see.
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NewsEleven Films and TV Shows You Need to Stream in April
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.
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NewsEleven 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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NewsHop 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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NewsNine 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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NewsSay 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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NewsPredicting 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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NewsHere'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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NewsUniversal’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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NewsThe Top Five Leadership Spills on Screen
See how Australian politics compares to famous spills on screen.
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NewsNZ International Film Festival Launches 2013 Program
Film lovers get ready for some popcorn-induced comas, the New Zealand International Film Festival has launched its 2013 program.
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NewsWin Tickets to Before Midnight
Before Midnight tells the endearing love story between Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy)
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NewsFive Reasons We’d Believe Anything About Tilda Swinton
She lives on another planet, and it's one we're dying to visit.
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NewsConcrete Playground Meets Film Director Mark Albiston
Mark Albiston (left) and Louis Sutherland are film makers and long time mates who have based their first feature film Shopping on Louis' experiences growing up as a half Samoan half Pakeha. Concrete Playground caught up with Mark Albiston to find out more.
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BarScarlett Slimms & Lucky
476 Mt Eden Rd, Auckland
Scarlett Slimms and Lucky is a haunt for the modern day Raymond Chandler.
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BarCassette Nine
Vulcan Lane, Auckland
Any place that can pull off jeans as wallpaper has two thumbs up in my book.
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RestaurantMiss 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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NewsIs Hip Hop the 21st Century’s Answer to Jazz?
Jay-Z might just be the modern day equivalent of Jay Gatsby
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NewsGun Control Laws Have an Unexpected Critic: Hollywood
Whatever will New York's film industry if they can't use real guns? Get creative, that's what.
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NewsConcrete Playground Meets Ira Glass of This American Life
We speak to Ira Glass, god of radio, ahead of This American Life's foray into film.
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NewsTen Best Films at The Documentary Edge Festival 2013
With more films than you can shake a stick at, the Documentary Edge Festival provides a comprehensive selection of documentaries from around the world. Here are our ten picks.
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NewsConcrete Playground Meets Danny Boyle and the Cast of Trance
What film did you expect Danny Boyle to make next? Odds are it wasn't Trance, a hypno-heist thriller.
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NewsFriendly Fire Becomes More Literal as Thumbs Replace Guns
Our favourite bullet-firing heroes and villains have laid down their arms.
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NewsWin Tickets to Rust and Bone
Concrete Playground has five double passes to give away to Rust and Bone, an utterly absorbing and powerful French love story.
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NewsCarrie Fisher Is Returning to Star Wars, According to Carrie Fisher
Princess Leia is is bringing back those famous bagel buns and reprising her role.
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NewsA Lego Hogwarts Exists That Is Almost Big Enough to Enter
This Hogwarts castle made out of 400,000 Lego blocks is possibly more stupefying than the real Hogwarts.
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NewsThe Five Greatest Papal Film Moments
Vatican movies to get you in the mood for the next two months of Church and State.
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NewsWin Tickets To I Give It a Year
Picking up where most romantic comedies end, I Give It A Year charts the rocky road of a rather mismatched couple navigating their first year of marriage.
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NewsSpringsteen & I
Springsteen & I is an open invitation to people all over the world to share stories that celebrate one of the greatest lyrical storytellers of our generation.
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NewsSeth MacFarlane Makes Hitler Quip as Oscar Nominations are Announced
For all its bravado and banality, we, along with an estimated 40 million viewers worldwide, remain total suckers for the Oscars.
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NewsThe Summer Movie Smackdown
Some of 2012's biggest titles duke it out on this special day of the year.
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NewsIMDB’s Top 250 Films in 2 1/2 Minutes
If you like your pop culture in bite size pieces then check out this awesome video "IMDB Top 250 in 2 1/2 Minutes"
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NewsConcrete Playground meets Dead Europe director Tony Krawitz
The filmmaker seeks out the ghosts of Europe with his new Christos Tsiolkas adaptation.
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NewsTen Film-Inspired Luxury Getaways
We've reviewed the new releases and flipped through the DVD cabinet to bring you ten jaw-dropping locations.
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NewsConcrete Playground Meets ‘How To Meet Girls From A Distance’
Director Dean Hewison and actor Richard Falkner wrote, shot and edited their upcoming debut film 'How to Meet Girls From a Distance' all within six months. Concrete Playground had a chat with these long time friends to find out how they pulled it off.
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NewsBehind-the-Scenes Footage From Seminal Films
Uncut, unreleased and unseen movie footage provide fans with a unique and fascinating insight into the creative process of cinema's great artists.
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NewsWin Tickets to Your Sister’s Sister and Where Do We Go Now?
Concrete Playground are giving six lucky readers the chance to win double passes to the below international films, being released in New Zealand in September.
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NewsA Short Film Made Using Musical Bicycle Parts
Brooklyn artist Stephen Meierding has pulled bicycles apart in order to make his short film 'Bicycle Sounds'.
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NewsTen Must See Films at the NZ 2012 International Film Festival
Ah the glitz and glamour of the Auckland 2012 International Film Festival, a shining light amongst the bleakness of winter, features a multitude of arthouse films squeezed into two and a half weeks of viewing pleasure.
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NewsSydney Locations Made Famous In Film
Peter Templeman's Not Suitable For Children has recently brought cinematic eyes to the city, but this is not the first film to do so.
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NewsThe Five Best Boutique Cinemas in Auckland
Here are the Concrete Playground Top Five picks for your next cinema visit:
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NewsThis Week in Film Trailers
As the weather gets colder it makes more sense to stay indoors and watch movies than to brave the icy winds.
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NewsA History of Love on Film (and What it Says About Us)
From gay couples to unwed couples and human-monster romance, we look at those films that have changed how we see that crazy little thing called love.
