Sometimes the best review of a film comes from the feeling in the cinema when the credits roll. Either there’s a buzz or there isn’t. At the end of A Quiet Place Part 2 the audience in the screening I…
A Quiet Place Part 2 – a cracking follow up
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Crave! episode 99: Wrath Of Man, Locked Down, ZeroZeroZero
Crave! is back, and this week Simon and Steve are doing their best to contain their frustration—they’re not angry, they’re just very, very disappointed—at Guy Ritchie’s latest, Wrath Of Man. Significantly less disappointing is Locked Down, surely the first of…
Wrath of Man – Guy, What were you thinking?
Oh dear. What a disappointment. If you caught the trailer of this Guy Ritchie directed crime film you may expect another one of his wisecracking, inventive and hard edged capers like last year’s “The Gentlemen”. Sadly, “Wrath of Man” is…
Bill And Ted Face The Music: an appropriately long-overdue conclusion to the trilogy
Bill And Ted Face The Music opens in New Zealand later this week. But Crave!, ever at the cutting edge of film reviews, has secured an exclusive guest review from our USA corrrespondent, Kate Whitcomb. Three decades after the story…
Crave! episode 97: Radioactive, Eurovision, True Detective, Taylor Swift’s new album
As Simon and Steve inch ever closer to their hundredth episode, the emphasis remains on films. Radioactive is the story of Marie Curie, and a film that both our reviewers found quite engaging. Less so Eurovision Song Contest: The Story…
Radioactive – an artist’s view of love and death
The film Radioactive tells the story of Marie Curie, one of the world’s most famous and influential scientists. She is the woman who, along with her husband Pierre, effectively unlocked radioactivity. It’s not subject matter to be taken lightly. Radioactive…
Crave! episode 96: Greed, The High Note, Money Heist, Shtisel, The Sinner, and a chat with James Reyne.
Crave! is finally back, after months of lockdown and carefully managed isolation. In this first post-lockdown edition, Steve and Simon disagree on Greed, the satire on the nasty wealthy from Michael Winterbottom, but agree on The High Note, a film…
The High Note: a rather low note.
The High Note, released as it was during the coronavirus pandemic, saw its initial release on streaming services; it might be kinder not to suggest that it would have been better off being released straight to video regardless of global…
Greed: a great way to get back into the cinema
Steve Coogan has been playing Alan Partridge for so long that it was, I suppose, somewhat inevitable that a little bit of Partridge would spill into any other role Coogan takes. No great surprise, then, that Sir Richard McCreadie, the…
Crave! episode 95: Alien Weaponry, The Book of Mormon, Bombshell, The Personal History Of David Copperfield, Emma, and a few thoughts about what’s next.
In what could be the last episode of Crave! to fully feature live entertainment for quite some time, Simon and Steve share a few thoughts about what lies ahead. But in more positive thoughts, Steve has a lot of good…