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NewsConcrete Playground's Annual Oscars Drinking Game: The 2017 Edition
The only way to get through the 89th Academy Awards in one piece.
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NewsBatman v Superman Cleans Up at the 37th Annual Razzie Awards
The superhero showdown took home four awards, but missed out on worst film of the year.
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NewsLondon Could Be Getting a Permanent Public David Bowie Memorial
A crowdfunding campaign has been launched for a three-storey monument to the entertainment icon.
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NewsStudio Ghibli's Hayao Miyazaki Is Officially Coming Out of Retirement
The acclaimed animator is currently preparing to make his next full-length film.
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NewsConcrete Playground's Helpful Guide to the 2017 Oscar Race
Who will win, who should win, and who got snubbed at the 89th Academy Awards.
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NewsHilarious Erotic Novel Podcast My Dad Wrote a Porno Announces Live New Zealand Show
The hysterical smut is coming Auckland in August.
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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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NewsA Shortland Street Musical is Coming to Auckland Arts Festival
The most exciting development for the soap since 'penis-gate'.
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NewsConcrete Playground Meets Australian Multi-Instrumentalists Hermitude
Get acquainted with some Blue Mountains electronica and score a double pass to the group's show this Friday.
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NewsTen Brilliant Things to See and Do at the Auckland Fringe Festival
Look beyond your average night out at the movies.
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NewsConcrete Playground Meets Sydney Electronic Producer What So Not
The allure of making beats, how 'High You Are' came to life, his progress as a musician and plans for the future.
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NewsTen Brilliant Events to Check Out at Auckland Pride Festival
New Zealand’s largest and loudest social and cultural program of events.
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NewsThis New Festival Seeks to Find the Best Gin and Tonic in Auckland
Not your average 1:1 ratio of house brand ingredients.
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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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NewsA Floating Theatre is Sailing into Auckland
Adding to the cat dance performance and cringeworthy dating show at this year's Fringe.
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NewsInterview: Virginia Frankovich on Feminism and Her Silo Theatre Directorial Debut
Building unity amongst her cast, why Birch's play should matter to us all and whether we should still use the 'F' word.
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NewsAlliance Française French Film Festival Reveals 2017 Lineup
With 36 formidable films on offer, from the Audrey Tatou-starring Jacques Cousteau biopic to Venice Film Festival highlight Planetarium.
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NewsInterview: M. Night Shyamalan on His New Film Split, Plot Twists and Taking Risks
His latest film features James McAvoy fielding 23 different personalities.
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NewsThe Team Behind Serial and This American Life Is Releasing a Brand New True Crime Podcast
S-Town will investigate a true story set in rural Alabama.
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NewsEat, Drink and Cry at the Third Annual Cinema Peroni
Treat all the senses at this al fresco cinema experience.
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NewsBasking in the Beauty of Moonlight with Oscar-Nominated Filmmaker Barry Jenkins
He chats to us about representing alternate characters, male vulnerability and black consciousness in a feature film.
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NewsTen Films From Sundance 2017 We're Hoping Make it to New Zealand Cinemas
Ghost stories, dance docos and rags-to-riches rap efforts.
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NewsYour Guide to Splore 2017
It's all about nurturing your soul with the perfect mix of art, music, performance, food and good vibes.
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NewsFive Minutes With VICELAND's Matty Matheson
What tickles the taste buds of this culinary wunderkind.
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NewsHow Lion Director Garth Davis Turned an Unbelievable True Tale into an Oscar Contender
Take an incredible story, a top-notch cast and a trip to India and add All The Feels.
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NewsLa La Land, Diversity and Aussie Films Shine In This Year's Oscar Nominations
The 2017 Academy Awards are all about that whimsical Hollywood musical.
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NewsThis Year's Fringe Features a Cat Dance Show With Real Life Cats
A crazy cat lady's dream come true.
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Guide15 Brilliant Things to do This Auckland Anniversary Weekend
You're spoilt for choice this year, folks.
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NewsShia LaBeouf Has Launched a Four-Year-Long Anti-Trump Live Stream
It's designed to act "as a show of resistance or insistence, opposition or optimism".
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NewsMikey Havoc on the Return of Kiwi Band Push Push
Havoc gets the band back together for a reunion tour with British hard rockers The Darkness.
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NewsWomen's Marches Draw Massive Crowds Around the Globe
Hundreds of thousands of people turned out worldwide.
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NewsA Conversation With Car Seat Headrest Frontman Will Toledo
The journey to a record deal, finding motivation as an artist and the makings of a 'classic rock show'.
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NewsSmales Farm's Outdoor Film Series Returns for 2017
Featuring an animated mammal comedy, a board game adventure and the first instalment of the Star Wars sequel trilogy.
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NewsLa La Land Might Be Adapted Into a Stage Musical
The hit flick might be taking its singing and dancing to the theatre.
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NewsTen Golden Globe Winners to Add to Your 2017 Must-Watch List
If you're going to binge-watch, make it the highest possible quality.
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GuideThe Best Free Things to Do in Auckland This Week
Dancing in the park, openair cinema and a belated Christmas shindig.
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NewsNetflix Has Turned Your Favourite TV Shows Into A Video Game
Outrun the Demogorgon or help Piper Chapman avoid cafeteria trays.
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NewsHow to Play a Giant Disney Villain with Flight of the Conchords' Jemaine Clement
We spoke to the comedian and actor about voicing a 50-foot crab, channelling David Bowie and working on Disney's Moana.
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NewsTen Films You Need to See in 2017
Long-awaited Blade Runner and Trainspotting reboots, Sofia Coppola's newbie and Greta Gerwig's solo directorial debut.
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NewsConcrete Playground's 2016/17 Summer Reading List
Ten books to get stuck into by the pool, the beach or on the couch with an Icy Pole in hand.
