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The Ten Must-Sees of Splore 2014

One part music festival, one part art installation and two parts incredible vibe.

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Ty the Rapper, Being Frank as Per Usual

Best known for his lyrical frankness.

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Wanted: The Best Deputy Editor in the Business

Are you an authority on pop culture, music, food, drink, events and city life?

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Ten Crazy Things People Have Done in the Name of Live Art

The highs, the lows, and all the wilfully mutilated body parts.

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Send a Little Guerrilla Kindness to Christchurch

Melbourne Sayraphim Lothian's latest project involves Christchurch, kindness and a whole lot of little green birds

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Rainbow Sochi Google Doodle Targets Anti-Gay Laws in Russia

The online giant joins activists all over the world.

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Eleven Films and TV Shows You Need to Stream This Month

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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Must-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 standout shows that you need to see.
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Eleven Films and TV Shows You Need to Stream in March

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Nine 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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Say 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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Predicting 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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Here'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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Ten Films and TV Shows You Need to Stream in February

Spend your couch time watching the new 'Mr & Mrs Smith', one of this year's Oscar Best Picture nominees and a stellar new space thriller.
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Ten Films and TV Shows You Need to Stream in January

Spend your couch time watching an Oscar-nominated true tale, the 'Boy Swallows Universe' TV series and the stunning return of 'True Detective'.

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Forgotify – 4 million songs never streamed

A streamless treasure trove of music.

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A Bluffer’s Guide to Street Art with WERT159

A little bit of a how-to guide on the elusive public art form.

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Terry Gilliam Goes Back to the Future with The Zero Theorem

Everything's normal when math whizz Christoph Waltz and David Thewlis in a tiger suit get together.

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Composer Turns Bicycle Into a Musical Instrument

Are they spokes or oversized strings?

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Four Ideas from the Movie Her We Actually Want in Our Future

There are no dystopian trappings in Spike Jonze's vision of the future.

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Lorde Wins Two Grammys

Two more awards to squeeze in the trophy cabinet.

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Samantha Jones Hilariously Dirties Up Spike Jonze’s Film Her

Theodore Twombly's new artificially intelligent operating system is crude, lewd and incredibly rude.

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Concrete Playground is Looking For Wellington Writers

For those who like free things in life.

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How War Became Both Beautiful and Traumatic for The Railway Man

Jonathan Teplitzky on war, visual irony and how Gen Ys respond to silence.

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Five New TV Shows We Can’t Wait to Watch in 2014

Goodbye free time, hello new TV.

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The Dutch Masters Recreated as Astonishing Entomological Displays

Seventeeth-century portraits get a beautiful and complex 21st-century update.

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Concrete Playground Meets Douglas Moores

With the exhibition now under way, we had the chance to catch up with Douglas and hear a little about the how and why of our Kiwi ingenuity.

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Latest Events

Event
The Fall Guy

Wednesday, April 24 - Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Various cinemas in Wellington, Wellington

Ryan Gosling is at his most charming — including while batting around screwball banter with Emily Blunt — in this dynamic action/rom-com ode to stunt performers.
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Abigail

Thursday, April 18 - Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Various cinemas in Wellington, Wellington

The directors of 'Ready or Not' turn their attention to monster movies in this deliciously entertaining heist-meets-vampire flick.
Event
Challengers

Thursday, April 18 - Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Various cinemas in Wellington, Wellington

For 'Call Me By Your Name' director Luca Guadagnino, Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist star in a smash of a tennis- and love triangle-fuelled drama.
Event
Back to Black

Thursday, May 2 - Wednesday, May 22, 2024
Various cinemas in Wellington, Wellington

Amy Winehouse was anything but formulaic, but the same can't be said about this by-the-numbers biopic about the British singer.
Event
Robot Dreams

Thursday, April 25 - Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Various cinemas in Wellington, Wellington

This Oscar-nominated animated gem explores love, loneliness, finding a connection and facing fate's chaos through the friendship of a dog and a robot.
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Origin

Thursday, April 18 - Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Various cinemas in Wellington, Wellington

'Selma' and 'A Wrinkle in Time; filmmaker Ava DuVernay returns with a sensitive, sincere and supremely smart biopic that's also an exploration of caste systems.
Event
Ahsin Ahsin: Turbo Croc 2.0

Saturday, February 3 - Sunday, May 19, 2024
City Gallery Wellington, Wellington

Prepare to step into an alternative world at this mind-bending exhibition.
Event
Flora and Fizz at QT Wellington

Saturday, February 10 - Sunday, May 5, 2024
QT Wellington, Wellington

Indulge in Perrier-Jouët's best drops at QT Wellington's Gallery Lounge.

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Eight Things That Made the 2014 Golden Globes Totally Worth It

Don't worry, one of them is J-Law.

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News
Tim Minchin to Turn Groundhog Day into a Musical

The same songs over and over again?

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Coachella 2014 Lineup Announced

It features a reunited Outkast and a gee-whiz number of Antipodeans.

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Artist Toon-Bombs Toronto with Googly Eyes

Liberty Village's local monsters revealed.

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News
Macaulay Culkin Unveils Debut Music Video for Pizza Underground

Well now we just want pizza.

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News
Off The Radar Festival comes to New Zealand

All kinds of "off the radar" stuff.

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Something’s Just a Little Off in These Photographs by Patrice Letarnec

Fall head over heels in love with the French artist's quirky photography.

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Cat Power and The Presets join the line up for Laneway

Don't go changing

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The Artists of the Heineken Baseline Afterparty 2014

You can't hold a lad from Papakura back.

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The Ten Best New Zealand Summer Music Festivals

We round up ten of the best music festivals taking place across the country this summer.

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The Fire & Light Midnight Show at Rhythm & Vines

Fireballs, electroluminescent dancers, bolts of lightning, pyrotechnics and Kim Dotcom.

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Mount Kimbie on Staying in Love with Music, Not the Music Industry

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The Bluffer’s Guide to Astronomy Photography wth Mark Gee

The Astronomy Photographer of the Year lends some trade secrets.

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Ten Gourmet Winter Getaways

These hotel dining rooms draw food critics like thirsty wildebeest to a watering hole.

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Ten Film-Inspired Luxury Getaways

We've reviewed the new releases and flipped through the DVD cabinet to bring you ten jaw-dropping locations.

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Tron: Legacy Inspires Icehotel Art Suite

British designers/sci-fi fans redesign Sweden's icehotel, Tron: Legacy style.

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