Let’s start with the good: this digital remake of The Lion King looks amazing. Truly. The landscapes, the attention to detail, and of course the rendition of the animals themselves, is quite astounding. And that’s the case watching it even…
What you make of Yesterday will largely depend on how willing you are to buy into the film’s central premise. It’s a clever, if odd, little idea — following a global power cut, and being hit by a bus as he…
Men In Black: International should have been so good. And yet it wasn’t. Neither Steve nor Simon can find many positive things to say about this disappointing film. Sometimes Always Never, on the other hand, the new Bill Nighy outing,…
Men In Black: International tries ever so hard to be an awful lot of different films. It’ll make you think of a Harry Potter/Fantastic Beasts outtake, it echoes mid-run James Bond films, it channels mediocre mid-90s Disney cartoons, it even…
The Monkees — well, two of them, anyway — came to Auckland this weekend. Simon and Steve were both keen to enjoy some nostalgic, feel-good pop songs; Simon and Steve were both just a little disappointed. Rocketman, on the other hand, is…
Simon’s just back from a short overseas trip and took the opportunity to catch up with a few films during his flight. One was a movie he’d wanted to catch on its release last year but missed. He reckons it…
Rocketman is Elton John in therapy. The film opens with Elton John, in full stage costume, devil horns and all, quite literally in therapy, confessing himself an alcoholic and a drug addict at a rehab meeting; John then tells the…
The biggest problem with Disney’s new live-action remake of its 1992 animated feature, isn’t even in the film. But we’ll come to that later. Before that, let’s talk about what is in the film. It is, by and large, a…
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…
Howls of laughter. Shrieks of delight. Gasps of surprise. And quiet moments when you could hear a tear fall. All these reactions were forthcoming from the eager throng I sat amongst who were soaking up Avengers Endgame. The audience’s expectations…