Here are the nominees for Best Regular Entertainment

Sometimes the old calendar can get a bit full, so it’s nice to have reliably enjoyable things to go to that you don’t have to remember the date, you just have to remember “Tuesday” or “first Thursday of every month”. Yeah it’s lazy, but it’s fun.

Movie Quiz at the Paramount
Short but sweet, the one-hour Thursday night movie quiz at the Paramount has fast become a favourite with the many movie-lovers of Wellington. Quizmistress Claire’s questions provide just the right amount of challenge and fun for the regular crowds. We also like that she takes submissions, so that those with particular movie fetishes can inflict them on the rest of the public, and that it makes the most out of the Paramount’s lovely foyer space.

Kiwi Pro Wrestling at Wellington High School
Sweaty men in tights, piled on top of each other? Hot dogs on sticks? A chance to stretch your vocal cords in a series of increasingly hilarious heckling? Yes, please! You really have to experience the rasslin’, held every couple of months at Wellington High School, to understand just what a fun experience it is, but once you’ve been, you’ll be telling all your friends.

The Electric Quiz at the Southern Cross
For those of us who can’t tell you who won the Melbourne Cup but do know who the yellow and black Transformer is, every Tuesday Keyz quizzes our giant trivia-loving nerd brains at the Cross. The fact that there’s no sports round is a major bonus, but we also like the organ round (ooo-err), the predictability (“Our top prize of 5000 cents at the bar… and a fourth prize of a smack on the ass from your favourite bartender”) and the sassy attitude.

Movies at the Mighty Mighty
The Mighties’ Movie night at Mighty Mighty is another piece of evidence that Wellington is an incredibly talented city. Every month the Mighties showcase a number of locally made short films. Sometimes they have homemade basement film projects, other times it’s high art, and sometimes it’s shorts at the end of a successful international run. But it’s always good times.

Films at the Archive
Located on the corner of Taranaki and Ghuznee Sts in the heart of Wellywood the Film Archive is the home of hundreds of thousands of moving images of New Zealand's past, and from around the world. Documentaries, home movies, Newsreels, television commercials, feature films and more (a coffee bar, a contemporary moving image gallery and a fully searchable media library). But it’s the weekly screenings, from Wednesday to Saturday nights, that make you a regular.