Ancient violins and new Steven Spielberg: What Your Weekend is Loving this week

Saturday, 6 June 2026

Pamper

Raeso has unveiled its latest innovation, the Lunar Veil Chrono-Active Sleep Mask – a three-phase overnight treatment that founder Katey Mandy describes as “eight hours of sleep in a jar”. Formulated with mandelic acid, DNA repair enzymes, New Zealand botanicals, peptides and ceramides, the mask is designed to work in sync with the skin’s overnight repair cycle. It aims to energise, calm, restore and strengthen while you sleep – helping you wake up looking considerably more rested than your late-night scrolling habits might suggest. $159, raesoskin.com

Watch

Steven Spielberg is back with what promises to be one of the biggest movies of the year, and finds him back in one of his favourite existential states: what would happen to the planet if we received indisputable evidence of alien life? Disclosure Day unites an all-star cast - Emily Blunt, Colin Firth, Josh O’Connor, Colman Domingo - for an action-packed thriller of extraterrestrials and government conspiracies. Spielberg has again teamed up with Jurassic Park screenwriter David Koepp, so we can trust that this will be a return to the classic movie magic Spielberg is known for. In cinemas on Thursday.

Listen

Kiwi violinist Benjamin Morrison is originally from Christchurch, and has gone on to become principal first violin of the Vienna Philharmonic; he’s also the founder of the Phileo Quartet, formed with three other Vienna musicians and now set to tour Aotearoa in July. With a programme largely spanning the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johannes Brahms, Erich Korngold and Hugo Wolf, musicians who spent much of their time in Vienna and were greatly influenced by the city, the shows will bring historic music and beautiful instruments - Morrison plays on a 1770 violin made by Nicoló Gagliano in Naples - to some of our most beautiful venues. Hamilton, Palmerston North, Wellington, Auckland, Christchurch, and Nelson, July 17 – 24, tickets at chambermusic.co.nz/phileo-quartet

Read

What if you could communicate directly with the voice of the world? What would it tell you? What would it want to know? NOVA, the new novel from Te Whanganui-a-Tara writer Tim Corballis, is a strange and timely sci-fi set on the titular self-contained world. The novel unfolds as a dialogue between System, the apparently all-knowing voice of NOVA’s “mechanisms and processes”, and Kalla, a sceptical, clever councillor. Per the blurb, this ambitious book finds the two characters circling questions of “democracy, labour, memory, entropy and love”. Te Herenga Waka University Press, releases on Thursday.

Wear

Let’s face it, winter is annoying. The wind is forever attacking the hair you thought looked good before you left the house, it’s raining and you don’t have an umbrella, and our mercurial temperatures keep you switching layers throughout the day. Dominique Healy’s new Theodora trench won’t solve all these problems, but it’s the ideal way to march through a wintry day with purpose, hardiness and elegance. Made locally and available in wool sateen or cotton drill, it’s the perfect statement piece to roll straight from work to a mid-winter cinema date or weeknight cocktail. Wool sateen, $1090, cotton drill, $800, dominiquehealy.com