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NewsThe World's First Official Studio Ghibli Restaurant Has Opened in Bangkok
Filled with Totoro figures and serving up susuwatari-shaped dishes, it's your next adorable must-visit destination.
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NewsThe 20 Best New Zealand Songs From the Past Year Have Been Announced
Including a pop earworm, a breakup ballad and peppy psychedelic funk.
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NewsThe First Lineup Has Been Announced for Bay Dreams 2019
Carry your NYE shenanigans into 2019 with London electronica, New Orleans rap and reggae fusion.
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NewsMarathon Portrait Painter Finally Unveils Six Years of Work in Huge Exhibition
Holden at one point painted nearly 600 portraits in a little over a month.
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NewsInternational Filmmakers Announced to Speak at NZIFF 2018
Featuring an Academy Award nominated filmmaker, the makers of a 'counter-narrative to Australian mythology' and a documentary maker exploring the relationship between roller-skating rinks, hip hop culture and property developers.
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NewsThe Cast of 'Twin Peaks' Is Coming to New Zealand
Five of the series' stars head down under to chat doppelgängers, David Lynch and life inside the Black Lodge.
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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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NewsShort Courses in Wellington Where You Can Learn New Life Skills
It's the perfect time to bury yourself in a new project or hunker down and learn a new skill.
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NewsThe Trailer for 'What We Do in the Shadows' TV Spinoff 'Wellington Paranormal' Is Here
"Think Mulder & Scully but in a country where nothing happens."
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NewsTen Things We Learned Chatting with Greg Sestero About 'The Room', Tommy Wiseau and 'Best F(r)iends'
The new film is based on the time Tommy Wiseau thought Sestero was going to kill him.
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NewsNew Zealand International Film Festival's Jam-Packed 2018 Program Is Here
Featuring winners from Cannes, New Zealand-made features and a series of world premieres, this year's NZIFF is shaping up to be a big one.
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NewsDaria Is Heading Back to Your TV Screen Courtesy of an All-New Reboot
La la la la la — everyone's favourite sardonic 90s teen is heading back to the small screen.
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NewsThis Colourful Forest Installation Is Entirely Made Out of Discarded Plastics
Danish artist Thomas Dambo worked with hundreds of volunteers to turn three tonnes of plastic waste into art.
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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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CafeSweet Mother's Kitchen
5 Courtenay Place, Wellington
New Orleans staples fused with Mexican snack food.
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NewsYou Can Eat Chocolate for a Good Cause Thanks to the Nikau Foundation
Funds raised from the Wellington Resilience Chocolate Bar will help ensure the community is equipped post-crisis.
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NewsYou'll Soon Be Able to Visit a James Bond Museum Built Into an Austrian Mountain
Explore the world of Britain's most famous fictional spy on one of the mountains seen in Spectre.
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NewsWellington Council Has Voted Through a Proposal to Become a te reo Maori City
It aims to make te reo a core part of Wellington’s identity through ensuring it is widely seen, heard and spoken.
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NewsBehind the Scenes of 2018's Scariest Film with 'Hereditary' Director Ari Aster
We talk to Aster about the catharsis of horror, casting Toni Collette and what makes the film so terrifying.
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NewsLike Winter, a Game of Thrones Prequel Series Is Coming
HBO has ordered a pilot for a potential spin-off, set thousands of years before the current series.
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NewsFive Films from Cannes 2018 We Can't Wait to See in New Zealand
Some of them may already be on their way to our cinemas; others we'll have to cross our fingers for.
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NewsEight Homegrown Films Have Been Announced for NZIFF
Including five world premieres and the return of live cinema with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra.
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GuideSix Gigs to See in Wellington This June
Sink your teeth into a five-day jazz festival, silky electronica by way of Wanaka and guitar-less guitar music.
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NewsSix Wellington Artists to Check Out at NZ Art Show 2018
The art paradise returns for its 15th year with a solid local lineup.
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NewsArtist Mike Parr Will Spend 72 Hours Buried Under a Hobart Road During Dark Mofo
He'll descend into a box measuring just 4.5 metres by 1.7 metres by 2.2 metres for three days, with traffic driving over the top.
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NewsA New HBO Documentary Series Will Revisit the Case Against Serial's Adnan Syed
It's being made by the director of true crime doco 'West of Memphis' and will have a score by Nick Cave.
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NewsSix Picks for LUX Light Festival 2018
Wellington's brightest experience of the year returns for ten days this week.
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NewsBob Dylan Will Return to New Zealand to Play Two Stadium Shows
The living legend will return to our shores for two shows that will showcase six decades of songs.
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NewsJapan's Kaleidoscopic New Digital-Only Art Museum Is Your Next Reason to Visit Tokyo
Featuring a forest filled with lamps that respond to human interaction and a virtual tea party that pairs your hot beverage with digital blooming flowers.
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NewsThe New Zealand International Film Festival Teases Its 2018 Program with Nine Features
Including the story of a show-stopping Chinese designer, a haunting new film from the director of 'Winter’s Bone' and a Cannes award winner.
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NewsConcrete Playground's Picks for The Documentary Edge International Film Festival 2018
Screening 74 docos from across the globe, this year's Doc Edge has something for everybody.
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NewsThe US TV Remake of 'What We Do in the Shadows' Is Officially Happening
Ten episodes will air in early-to-mid 2019.
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NewsStudio Ghibli's Magical Theme Park Will Now Open in 2022
The park will spirit visitors away into the Ghibli universe, featuring attractions from 'My Neighbour Totoro', 'Kiki's Delivery Service' and 'Howl's Moving Castle'.
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NewsFive Pieces of Homework to Do Before 'The Handmaid's Tale' Drops Its Second Season
The second season will premiere on Lightbox this week — if it's been a while since you binged the first, here's what you can do to catch up.
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NewsTen Picks for the 2018 New Zealand International Comedy Festival
Not your average roll call of comedians.
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NewsNetflix Might Be Getting Into the Cinema Game With Its Own Chain of Theatres
It's the potential next step for the streaming giant, which will spend up to $8 billion on original content this year.
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NewsSix Picks for New Zealand Dance Week 2018
Celebrate the art form with dance workshops, performance and an inspired program of films.
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NewsSplendour in the Grass Announces 2018 Lineup Led by Kendrick and Lorde
Dust off your gumboots — it's a big one.
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NewsFive Enchantingly Essential Studio Ghibli Gems From Co-Founder and Director Isao Takahata
Before the director passed away this week aged 82, he was responsible for some of Ghibli's best flicks.
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NewsEmpire Records Is Being Adapted Into a Stage Musical
Shock me, shock me, shock me with some '90s comedy fun.
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NewsDark Mofo Has Unveiled Its Massive 2018 Lineup
Returning to MONA in June, it’s chock full of old favourites, powerhouse female artists and the festival's take on Twin Peaks' Bang Bang Bar.
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NewsDocumentary Edge Festival Announces Packed 2018 Program
This year's lineup includes more than 80 thought-provoking documentaries and pint-sized flicks.
