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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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NewsWorld Movies Presents Films That Shocked the World
Be shocked, horrified, stunned and controversified with this week of films in August.
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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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NewsThe Five Best Films to See at Possible Worlds
Five of the best from one of the most interesting fixtures on the increasingly crowded calendar of Sydney film festivals.
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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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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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News‘A Bricolage of Shit': The Act of Killing’s New Take on Documentary and Genocide
The Act of Killing has been the talk of Sydney Film Festival. Director Joshua Oppenheimer tells how his astonishing documentary came together.
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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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NewsReimagining How to Build Cities on a Human Scale
Andreas Dalsgaard, director of The Human Scale, explains how we address the contradictions of contemporary cities.
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NewsThe Ten Best Things to See at the Sydney Film Festival
Grab your popcorn and settle into your seat for these ten (-ish) events.
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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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NewsWeb Success Vive Cool City Moves to TV
The current affairs show not safe for work. Or most of the day.
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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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NewsWhat’s So New About SBS2?
SBS2 does TV that's made for Goldilocks — not too old, not too young, but just right.
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NewsWorld Movies Secret Cinema Sneaks into Melbourne
The awesome immersive cinema experience finally makes it to Melbourne.
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NewsYou Too Can Look Out the Rear Window Window, at the Sydney Film Festival
Artist Jeff Desom immerses you in Hitchcock's paranoid world.
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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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NewsBrisbane’s Best Pre- and Post-Movie Restaurants
We've narrowed down the top 10 pre- and post-film eats all within walking distance of movie theatres.
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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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NewsHow Reasonable Things Still Get Banned by the Australian Classification Board
I Want Your Love is in the spotlight after James Franco's YouTube rant, but it's banning is just one of many 'silly' decisions made by Australian censors over the years.
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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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NewsWin Tickets to See I Give It a Year
A rom com that turns its gaze to what happens after the wedding.
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NewsWin Tickets to the Alliance Francaise French Film Festival
A wave of the best French cinema hits Australia once again.
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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.
