School holidays don’t just test your patience, they test your planning. We kick things off by settling our Oscars scorecard and checking how our New Zealand box office predictions stacked up, then we jump straight into the real question parents...

Oscars season turns smart people into coin flippers, and we are no exception. We sit down with our ballots open and our confidence shrinking by the minute, then make the call anyway: our final predictions for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supp...

The week’s lineup swings from iconic concert energy to sly, satirical thrills to a heartfelt Kiwi adventure—and we’re here for all of it. We kick off with Elvis Presley In Concert, Baz Luhrmann’s restoration that swaps reenactment for the real ...

A YouTuber-backed indie horror just ran circles around studio titles at the New Zealand box office—and that upset sets the tone for a week packed with big swings. We start with the data and dig into why Iron Lung connected: a tight hook, social...

What happens when a creator-led indie horror storms 3,000+ theaters while studio tentpoles still rule the charts? We kick off Season 4 by unpacking a summer that brought crowds back, from Zootopia 2’s family juggernaut to Avatar: Fire and Ash p...