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Your Winter Film Guide

The Hollywood blockbuster formula meets hard-to-tackle issues like mental health and the role of women.

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Real Groovy Queen Street Set For Demolition

Not so groovy.

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Concrete Playground Wants You

We are looking for an additional freelance cultural connoisseur based in either Wellington or Auckland.

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Watch 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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American Football is Coming to New Zealand Next Year

USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!

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Elizabeth 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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Latest Guides

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Predicting 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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Ten 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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Ten 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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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's standout shows that you need to see.
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Eleven 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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Eleven 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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Hop 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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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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Brilliant Things to Do in Wellington This June

Leave your hot water bottle at home.

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Why Is Tame Impala Suing Their Ex-Record Label Modular?

Kevin Parker's on the warpath.

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Five Semi-Permanent Speakers We're Excited to See

Only a month to go.

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Converse Are Winging Bands to the Best Studios on Earth

Just don't forget your drumsticks.

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See 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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Ken 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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Latest Places

Restaurant
House of Dumplings

117 Taranaki Street, Wellington

You will have your dumpling and eat it too.
Bar
Southern 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.
Bar
St John’s

5 Cable Street, Wellington

Bean bags with your beersies? Yeah, go on.
Cafe
Baobab

152 Riddiford St, Newtown

A Newtown cultural institution.
Restaurant
Ekim Burgers

257 Cuba St, Te Aro

The best homemade burgers that you can’t actually make at home.
Cafe
Enigma

128 Courtenay Place, Te Aro

Goliath-sized burgers and laid-back staff make Enigma a great late night haunt.
Bar
Bebemos

88 Riddiford Street, Wellington

The laid-back Latin craft beer bar houses over 60 different types of beers.
Cafe
Fidel’s Cafe

234 Cuba Street, Wellington

Cuba Street's Cuban icon.
Cafe
Sweet Mother's Kitchen

5 Courtenay Place, Wellington

New Orleans staples fused with Mexican snack food.
Restaurant
Tommy Millions

Cnr Courtenay Place And Taranaki Street, Wellington

Big fans of Tommy.

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Changes Galore for Gisborne's Rhythm and Vines Festival

It's a new year for the New Year's festival.

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The Seven Best Cinemas in Wellington

A museum cinema hybrid, Wellington's oldest cinema and a theatre stacked with comfy armchairs.

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The Winner of the 2015 Billy T Award Has Been Named

Props, costume changes and audience participation = maximum lols.

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Brilliant Advice, Lessons and Revelations from the Auckland Writers Festival

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Some 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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Here is a Movie Theatre Truck That Delivers to Your Doorstep

The pure potential of an actual, literal, motion picture.

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Blur Now Have Their Own Official 'Magic Whip' Ice Cream

For sharing with all the people, so many people.

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The Winners of the 2015 Music Managers Awards Have Been Announced

Celebrating the often-unsung heroes of the music industry.

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Guide
The Eight Best Bookstores in Wellington

Because books are a whole lot more than just a few hundred printed pages that smell really great.

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Watch the First Trailer for New Parks and Rec-Style Muppets Show

Muppets in mockumentary format. Would watch.

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New Streaming Site Launched to Promote New Zealand Music

How many grannies you know roll like this?

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Wes 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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Humans of New York's Brandon Stanton Photographed the 2015 Met Gala

Ordinary people as celebrities, celebrities as ordinary people.

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This 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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Win Tickets to See It Follows

We encourage you to use protection at this movie.

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The STD Ghost, Pubertal Werewolves and the History of Sex in Horror Movies

Worth your time: the new movie whose protagonist is haunted by an anthropomorphised STD.

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Han Solo Shows Up in the New Star Wars Trailer

Laugh it up, fuzzballs.

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Red Bull Sound Select Are Giving Away Free Wax on Record Store Day

Break music.

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Splendour in the Grass Announces 2015 Lineup

Cat's out of the bag — for real this time.

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Arrested Development Is Locked in for 17 New Episodes

Come on.

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For $10,000 a Night You Too Can Stay in New Zealand's Most Expensive Hotel Suite

Better start saving.

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Great Kitten Could Be the World's First Cat Cinema

Cat cafes are heading to a whole new level.

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Guide
Brilliant Free Things to Do in Wellington This April

Luckily, life doesn't have to be stingy just because you are.

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Jay Z Announces First Ever Artist-Owned Streaming Service

"People really feel like music is free, but will pay $6 for water."

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The Ten Best First Date Destinations in Wellington

Places to let your Tinder matches kindle into romance.

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The X-Files Returns to TV After 13 Years

The truth is still out there.

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The Black Keys Cancel Asia Pacific Tour

"You just can’t have The Black Keys with no drums."

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Jimmy Kimmel Pranks SXSW Punters with the Ol' Fake Band Stunt

"What do you think of DJ Gluten... hard to tolerate?"

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Nine Incredible Things You're Missing at SXSW This Year

From Tinder robots to Kwik-E-Mart food trucks and virtual reality SNL, SXSW 2015 has truly opened with a bang.

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