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NewsTiny Ruins On Creating Good Art Out of Banality
"It’s that kind of sense of fobbing away a part of yourself – the more that I felt that, the more I scrambled to make the most of my songwriting."
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NewsNZIFF Has Made a Foray into Cannes
NZIFF will screen seventeen films from the prestigious festival - including the winners of the Best Director, Jury Prize and Best Actor categories.
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NewsThe Ten Best Boutique Cinemas in Auckland
The following list includes mainstream, light art-house and hardcore art-house cinema.
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NewsPredicting the Oscars: Who Should, Could and Will Win at the 2025 Academy Awards
From 'Anora' and 'A Real Pain' to 'I'm Still Here' and 'No Other Land', here's what's likely to emerge victorious at the 2025 Oscars.
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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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NewsConcrete Playground Meets Contemporary Artist Joe Helmore
Like his paintings, Joe Helmore is a bit of a pick and mix.
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NewsYour Winter Film Guide
The Hollywood blockbuster formula meets hard-to-tackle issues like mental health and the role of women.
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NewsConcrete Playground Wants You
We are looking for an additional freelance cultural connoisseur based in either Wellington or Auckland.
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NewsWatch Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard in the First Macbeth Trailer
Australian director Justin Kurzel's highly anticipated follow-up to Snowtown.
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NewsAmerican Football is Coming to New Zealand Next Year
USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!
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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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NewsElizabeth Rose's New Single Is an Anthem for Marriage Equality
With sale proceeds being used to help fight discrimination. What a legend.
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NewsOstro's Josh Emett Is Bringing You a Side of Live Music with Your Mains
Matter-of-factly named 'Dinner and a Show', you will be treated to exactly that.
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NewsSee Studio Ghibli's Spirited Away as an 8-Bit Video Game
Hayao Miyazaki's beloved film, as an adorable platform adventure.
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NewsKen Griffen's 'Face Value' Distills Superficial Encounters into Art
The Huffer art director's first solo exhibition is a series of disembodied remainders of fleeting relationships.
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NewsChanges Galore for Gisborne's Rhythm and Vines Festival
It's a new year for the New Year's festival.
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NewsThe Winner of the 2015 Billy T Award Has Been Named
Props, costume changes and audience participation = maximum lols.
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NewsSome Very Good Reasons to Head to this Week's Red Bull Sound Select
In case you were planning a quiet night in this week.
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NewsHere is a Movie Theatre Truck That Delivers to Your Doorstep
The pure potential of an actual, literal, motion picture.
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NewsTheatre Director Oliver Driver Makes Cinema Come Alive in New 4D Play
The man driving the crazy theatre-film hybrid show.
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NewsBlur Now Have Their Own Official 'Magic Whip' Ice Cream
For sharing with all the people, so many people.
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GuideYour Guide to the Documentary Edge Film Festival 2015
The Documentary Edge Film Festival brings us a full schedule jam-packed with fascinating films.
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NewsThe Winners of the 2015 Music Managers Awards Have Been Announced
Celebrating the often-unsung heroes of the music industry.
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NewsWatch the First Trailer for New Parks and Rec-Style Muppets Show
Muppets in mockumentary format. Would watch.
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NewsNew Streaming Site Launched to Promote New Zealand Music
How many grannies you know roll like this?
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GuideYour Guide to the 2015 Auckland Writers Festival
From pure entertainment to die-hard intellectual debates, the Auckland Writers Festival is back to help us through the mid-year blues with an injection of literary culture.
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NewsWes Anderson Designed a Cafe That Looks Like One of His Movie Sets
You'd better believe it's kitschy as blazes.
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NewsHumans of New York's Brandon Stanton Photographed the 2015 Met Gala
Ordinary people as celebrities, celebrities as ordinary people.
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NewsRupert Murdoch Has Left the Headlines and Has Gone on Stage
Unbridled ambition, phone hackings and miles of headlines later.
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GuideThe Best Kiwi Gigs to See for the Remainder of New Zealand Music Month
Huddle in at one of these gigs and give your ears a little homemade treat.
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NewsThis Trailer for Studio Ghibli's Final Film Has Already Broken Our Hearts
Catch a glimpse of When Marnie Was There, Ghibli's last feature.
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Win One of Ten Double Passes to David Bowie Is
A journey through the creative headspace of David Bowie.
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NewsPeking Duk to Return for Deep, Hard 'N' Funky
For 15 years Deep, Hard ’N’ Funky has been the dance clique’s go-to rave.
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NewsShakespeare's Globe Theatre Set to Pop Up in Auckland
Next April, it will be 400 years since one of the greatest playwrights and poets known to man passed away.
