Category: Episodes

Crave! episode 82: Avengers Endgame; Black Grace; and even more Game Of Thrones reckons

There’s only one topic on Simon and Steve’s minds right now, and that’s Game Of Thrones. With only one episode left, we dissect everything we’ve learnt in episode 5 of the final series, The Bells, and try to figure out…

Crave! episode 81: Game Of Thrones, You Are Us/Aroha Nui, Nathaniel Rateliff, Black Summer, Shazam

It’s time — finally — for the final series of Game Of Thrones, and so Simon and Steve dissect, in fine detail, the first episode. Steve’s been to the Auckland leg of the Christchurch benefit concert tour You Are Us/Aroha…

Crave! episode 80: Dumbo, Daffodils, Us, and Hozier’s new album Wasteland, Baby

Another film-heavy episode, and this week Simon and Steve are in agreement about Dumbo, a heavyweight of a film that fails to take off. Daffodils, the new New Zealand film featuring the songs that Kiwis grew up with over the…

Crave! episode 79: Leaving Neverland, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Bryan Adams, Captain Marvel

Alleged paedophilia isn’t really the stuff entertainment review podcasts thrive on, but Leaving Neverland, the new HBO-produced doco about the allegations surrounding Michael Jackson, is a compelling — a very tough, but compelling — watch, and Simon and Steve have…

Crave! episode 77: Roma, If Beale Street Could Talk, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Simon and Steve’s Oscar picks, and Simon’s interview with Avalanche City’s Dave Baxter

Oscar season is approaching, and so it’s time for Steve and Simon’s Academy Award predictions. Roma features highly, although Simon rates it just a little more than Steve does. Both of our reviewers have plenty of good things to say…

Crave! episode 76: Lily Allen, Green Book, May Queen Of Scots, Laneway, The Favourite, Glass, and an interview with Rowetta

We’re nothing if not current here at Crave! With the echoes barely dying down at Spark Arena from Lily Allen’s show there last night, Simon and Steve have a chat about the concert, with a rather split verdict. Less division,…

Crave! episode 75: Mary Poppins Returns, Vice, Holmes & Watson, and an interview with Myles Kennedy

Mary Poppins has returned, but while Steve is quite taken with its charms, Simon has less room in his cold, cold heart for its joys. Vice, on the other hand, has thoroughly impressed both our reviewers just as much as…

Crave! episode 74: Shania Twain, The Children Act, Bruce Springsteen on Broadway, and the year in review

Crave! explores new dimensions with episode 74, our first fully video-recorded episode! Simon and Steve have enjoyed Shania Twain’s first concert in New Zealand, as well as having a lot of very positive things to say about The Children Act,…