Eat.Sleep.Movie.Repeat

Spider-Man isn’t just “doing well” right now, it’s detonating records and dragging the whole theatrical ecosystem upward with it. We break down what those massive numbers mean through a New Zealand cinema lens: packed...

Spider-Man is not just “back” right now, it’s steamrolling the conversation, the queues, and the box office. We’re recording while Ross is mid-shift at Cathay Cinemas, running on a skeleton crew, watching packed...

We settle our Moana box office bet and dig into why critics and audiences can see the same movie so differently. Then we look ahead to a packed slate, celebrate indie cinema community, remember Sam Neill, and put our...

A movie can be genuinely fun, get decent reviews, and still face-plant at the box office, and that contradiction kicks off our latest chat. We’re Brent Harbour and Ross Church, and we open with a hard look at Masters of...

A thunderstorm is hammering down outside, which makes our favorite idea sound even better: go sit in a dark theater and let a movie do the heavy lifting. We kick things off by settling last week’s box office prediction...

Star Wars is finally back on the big screen for the first time in 10 years, and we’re not easing into it. We talk The Mandalorian And Grogu, why Grogu still feels like peak Star Wars, and how practical creatures and...

A movie can have rough critic scores and still steamroll the box office, and this week’s numbers prove it. We come in buzzing about big upcoming releases (yes, we talk about the Odyssey trailer hype) and then...

A romantic comedy opens during school holidays and gets absolutely steamrolled at the box office. That one result kicks off a bigger conversation we all feel as moviegoers but rarely name out loud: release timing can...

You can tell it’s the school holidays the moment the rain hits: queues get longer, faces get more stressed, and the same question keeps coming up at the counter. Will we get in. We kick things off with the moviegoing...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

A year that felt like a cliffhanger deserved a finale with stakes. We open with a candid pulse check on the film industry—streamer chess moves, lawsuits on the horizon, and a box office that held steady only because a...