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News'A Film About Coffee': Stream Brandon Loper's Expertly Brewed Documentary
Hardcore baristas and coffee fiends, get over here.
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NewsWhat Do You Do With Yourself After Surviving The Human Centipede?
We chat to actress Ashley C. Williams about life after the madness of Tom Six.
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NewsWes Anderson is Planning His Own Theme Park with Devo’s Mark Mothersbaugh
What the cuss? Stop everything.
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NewsImprovising a Christmas Movie with Director Joe Swanberg
Anna Kendrick and Lena Dunham riffing the next 50 Shades of Grey. You can't write this stuff.
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NewsBill Murray and Sofia Coppola Are Teaming Up For a Christmas Musical
Your Christmas lunch could soon be soundtracked by Bill Murray.
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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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NewsRoman Coppola’s Short Film Competition Winners Are Just As Weird As You Thought
Goat hunts, kidnappings and gossip.
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NewsFive Underappreciated Studio Ghibli Films You Should Hurry Up and Watch
If you love Totoro and Spirited Away, then these should be right up your alley.
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NewsThe Pros and Cons of Watching Orange is the New Black
The pros and cons of binge sessions on Lightbox.co.nz
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NewsNational Geographic Adventure Filmmaker Bryan Smith is More Afraid Than You Think
The man who started filmmaking with a camcorder from Walmart.
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NewsFive Things to Learn at the Big Screen Symposium
From producing films that star Jennifer Lawrence to being funny.
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RestaurantHouse of Dumplings
117 Taranaki Street, Wellington
You will have your dumpling and eat it too.
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BarSouthern Cross
39 Abel Smith Street, Te Aro
The bar's ridiculously ‘gram-able courtyard is the perfect summer afternoon spot to sip on a cold one.
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RestaurantEkim Burgers
257 Cuba St, Te Aro
The best homemade burgers that you can’t actually make at home.
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RestaurantEnigma
128 Courtenay Place, Te Aro
Goliath-sized burgers and laid-back staff make Enigma a great late night haunt.
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RestaurantSweet Mother's Kitchen
5 Courtenay Place, Wellington
New Orleans staples fused with Mexican snack food.
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NewsWin Tickets and the Soundtrack to Wish I Was Here
Wish I Was Here is a sincere and funny follow up to Zach Braff's hugely popular directorial debut The Garden State. Concrete Playground has five double passes and digital soundtracks from the film to giveaway.
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NewsDirector Florian Habicht on Putting Pulp to Film, with a Little Help from Sheffield
It took a whole town to tell the story of Pulp, Jarvis Cocker, life, death and supermarkets.
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NewsDavid Attenborough is Filming a 3D Doco on the Great Barrier Reef This Year
This is going to be well worth the IMAX money.
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NewsConcrete Playground meets the Directors behind Nick Cave’s 20,000 Days on Earth
The documentary set in an imaginary 24-hour period of Nick Cave's life.
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NewsYou’ll Soon Be Able to Guzzle Precious Hobbit-Themed Beer
The Smaug Stout is infused with chillies. Nice.
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NewsCliff Curtis on Playing a Man with Bi-Polar Disorder
The Hollywood actor and lead role in New Zealand chess drama The Dark Horse.
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NewsNo Cameras Allowed Doco Shows One Guy Sneaking Into 50 Music Festivals
Recording your own misdeeds never looked so good.
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NewsOh Hi Mark! Greg Sestero of The Room Sheds Light on the Worst Film Ever Made
James Franco and Seth Rogen are planning to adapt his memoirs, so life's looking pretty good for the star of the worst movie ever.
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NewsTen Must-See Films at the NZ International Film Festival 2014
Buy a ticket and you can learn how Hollywood celebs really live, visit a little-known Gisborne chessmaster, take a road trip to Southern Spain with a couple of misfits and a Beatles-mad teacher and get to know Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker and 90s hip hop star Nas.
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NewsHow The Two Faces of January Got Its Luxe ’60s Greek Isles Look
Costume designer Steven Noble hits the vintage shops with Kirsten Dunst to create a dreamy vision of 1962.
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NewsBehind the Scenes of The Rover with Director David Michod
How the director realised his unique vision for the end of days and Robert Pattinson.
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NewsThe Dark Horse to Open New Zealand International Film Festival
Local films about double lives, speed chess champions, Israeli politics and climate change have made the cut for this year's New Zealand International Film Festival. Thirteen Kiwi films being showcased, including The Dark Horse which will kick off the two-and-a-half week event.
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NewsWin Tickets to Million Dollar Arm
One of five double passes up for grabs to this new Disney classic.
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NewsFive Unexpected Things We Learnt From Cannes Film Festival 2014
Tarantino says cinema is dead, and your boyfriend Ryan Gosling sucks at directing.
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NewsUniversal’s Harry Potter Theme Park is After Your Galleons With Their Latest Gringotts Ride
It features a 60-foot dragon. Enough said.
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NewsTen Must See Films at The Documentary Edge Festival 2014
Is it just me or does the Documentary Edge Festival just get better every year?
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NewsMeet ‘Him’, the Talking Website Bringing Us One Step Closer to Spike Jonze’s ‘Her’
Spoiler: it's super creepy.
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NewsTaika Waititi’s Vampire Mockumentary Shot Entirely in Wellington
A mockumentary following four Wellingtonian vampire flatmates around during their day-to-day lives.
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NewsThe Eight Best Films to See at the Architecture and Design Film Festival
The festival tackles all the grittier issues of design: screening informative, challenging and visually beautiful films.
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NewsWorld’s Remotest Film Festival Marks Its 11th Anniversary
The festival takes place in the Sahara desert, 170 kilometres away from the nearest village.
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