Simon and Steve are back for another year of entertainment reviews and comment, starting off 2018 with a few words about the utterly superb Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, the excellent The Post, the very good The Shape Of Water,…
You can treat The Post as it stands, a well crafted Steven Spielberg film about a pivotal time in recent American history, delivered to screen by a stellar cast. But of course it’s impossible to look at it only that…
Writer director Guillermo del Toro brings a story that is a romance, a thriller, and a fantasy, all wrapped up in a B grade 1950/60’s Hollywood noir setting. It is beautiful to look at, and richly rewarding as a piece…
This is a hell of a story and a hell of a film. It takes difficult subject matter – the violent death of a teenager, suicide – and with a clever plot, a smart and often humorous script, and spot…
There’s a lot to like about Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle (yes, the Guns ‘n’ Roses song gets a brief look in); much of what’s to like about it is Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. The story of this latest take…
[player id=4183] Steve has had the great good fortune to be at Paul McCartney’s recent Auckland concert, while Simon enjoyed Cat Stevens’ show at Spark Arena a couple of nights earlier. Both were outstanding shows, but Steve’s a little less…
The first Star Wars film, the one we now know as Episode IV, was a very different creature from its most recent sequel, The Last Jedi (Episode VIII, in case anyone’s still bothering to keep track of such things). A…
Exciting sequences, memorable visuals, and the full return of a long lost character – Star Wars The Last Jedi has all that. But it also has some tedious storytelling which at times had me looking at my watch. Two and…
Music is to the fore again in the latest episode of Crave!, with a review of Harry Styles’ first solo concert in Auckland from our guest reviewer Debbie, and Simon and Steve’s thoughts on the recent double-bill of The Pretenders…
Wonder is supposed to be an inspirational, uplifting and empowering film about being kind. The kindest this that anyone could do for this film would be to shelve it, and allow it never to see the light of day. Sadly,…