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Christchurch’s movie-goers have shown their love, with Alice Cinematheque and Reading The Palms cinemas winning the People’s Choice Best Cinema awards at the official awards of the NZ motion picture industry. The New Zealand Motion Picture Industry (NZMPIC) awards take place at the end of each year’s industry conference, and are decided by public vote […]

The New Zealand International Film Festival (NZIFF) has announced ten outstanding New Zealand films to be screened at this year’s 2015 festival. Rich in documentaries, this year’s selection of New Zealand films feature eight World Premieres, a collection of artist-made shorts and an Incredibly Strange SXSW hit, all of which are sure to excite and […]

Congratulations to the six filmmakers whose short films were selected by Christine Jeffs (Rain, Sunshine Cleaning) to contend for the awards on this year’s New Zealand’s Best short film programme. For the fourth year in a row, we will be showcasing a fantastic selection of shorts from established filmmakers and up-and-coming talent alike. Attend a screening in […]

Is this oft-quoted Hollywood maxim why intense dramas usually collect all the award season gongs? Clayton Barnett opens up the Show Me Shorts vault to present three short comedies that have broken the rules and won the top award. Comedic shorts can win. Here are some Best Film winners that demonstrate how laughs can deliver […]

  The New Zealand International Film Festival (NZIFF) has announced four groovy musical titles for the 2015 programme that cover the lives and musical careers of Amy Winehouse, Mavis Staples and The Who, as well as a doco that blends archival footage with the stirring folk songs of King Creosote. Amy From the director of the brilliant Senna Asif Kapadia […]

Through April and May on Flicks, 1,650 New Zealand film fans answered over 26,000 questions about how and why they watch movies. These are our key findings on movie-watching, online piracy and ticket prices.

The New Zealand International Film Festival (NZIFF) today announces two Live Cinema Events this year for Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. Charlie Chaplin’s 1921 heart-warming classic The Kid, preceded by his 1917 short The Immigrant will screen in Auckland and Christchurch. Auckland and Wellington will show a 1928 fairy-tale tribute to New York City only recently discovered, Lonesome from Hungarian director Paul […]

Attention film fans of New Zealand! Flicks is embarking on an epic journey of revelation. Our goal is straight forward: To find the best movies of all time according to the discerning movie-watchers of this fine nation. Our methods are transparent: We coerce your participation with a bribe – the chance to win the resulting […]

It’s that time of the year again – NZ Music Month! And Show Me Shorts is celebrating that by accepting NZ music video submissions free of charge for the whole of May. Rebekah Ngatae from the Show Me Shorts team has also selected three of her favourite local music videos for us to watch here. […]

Seven Kiwi film classics are coming back to New Zealand cinemas for a limited run in select theatres over the course of the remaining year. The ‘Classic Kiwi Cinema Series’ kicks off in June with the great Smash Palace, followed by Sam Neill’s documentary Cinema of Unease (July), Jane Campion’s superb An Angel at my […]

Noble is an upcoming drama based on the life of one hell of a human being – children’s rights campaigner Christina Noble. She is a feisty and courageous Irishwoman who was forced into homelessness as a teen when abandoned by her father. As an adult, her compassionate nature drove her to help nearly a million street-children and […]

The goodness has started! The New Zealand International Film Festival has announced five Sundance-winning titles that will be arriving to our fair nation for this year’s schedule, from documentaries of the bizarre kind to comedy dramas of the foul-mouthed-granny variety. The Wolfpack The winner of the Documentary Grand Jury Prize at Sundance this year, Crystal […]

Kiwi movie fans will get the chance to see I Survived a Zombie Holocaust via the medium that suits them best when local distributor Vendetta Films release the film simultaneously in Cinemas, on VOD and DVD and in a NZ first, via the Cinema on Demand website Tugg.co.nz on May 22nd 2015. Harnessing the power […]

The whole damn movie world has gone superhero crazy in the last decade. Between Marvel’s supremacy and DC’s scrambling (apart from Batman) the world of comic books are dominating cinema screens and the box office like never before. Time to ask the question: What are the greatest superhero movies ever? And after 1,998 votes were […]

Cinema is great, but sometimes cinema goers aren’t. We know the desire to throttle an annoying movie-watcher more than anyone, but we wanted to know how you – the people of New Zealand – felt about irritating cinema behaviour. While cellphone-usage was unexpectedly frowned upon, the annoying act of talking during a film was the […]

An upcoming NZ premiere of UK documentary Project Wild Thing offers an opportunity to see a film that The Guardian said “will change your life” and Hussain Currimbhoy at the Sheffield Doc/Fest described as being “like David Attenborough and Morgan Spurlock got drunk and had a baby…” Intrigued? Well, you probably should be. Plus the screenings […]

Taika Waititi, New Zealand’s Oscar-nominated filmmaker behind Boy and What We Do in the Shadows, is more than deserving of that Marvel movie fame. Hell, we’d even say it’s his birth-right. In our ideal world, he’d be donning a cinema cape right bloody now in Avengers: Age of Ultron. But what superhero would suit him best? […]