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…
Sometimes being very, very clever simply isn’t quite enough. Tom Stoppard was undeniably terribly, dreadfully clever when he wrote Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, and it is most certainly a frightfully witty and clever play. But it’s also quite stultifyingly…
Crave! is back after a short winter break, and the big film that’s welcomed Steve and Simon back is Quentin Tarantino’s ninth, and possibly last, possibly penultimate, film, the awkwardly-named Once Upon A Time…In Hollywood. Steve’s been to the theatre,…
The best stories are the ones that age well. John Guare wrote Six Degrees Of Separation thirty years ago, and while the story wouldn’t work in today’s world—the lies, the deceptions, the willingness to be deceived wouldn’t hold up well…
The Emergency was an extraordinary time in India’s history; A Fine Balance is an extraordinary book, Rohinton Mistry’s story of four people who cling to each other while their worlds fall apart a richly detailed, painful, but beautiful description of…
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…
They do indeed have grace. And vitality, and muscularity, and a sense of drama and of humour. They are Black Grace, and this five strong dance troupe of young men and women presented the crowd in the Coromandel town of…
Episode 61 of Crave! has a mix of the international and the local. Steve’s at home in New Zealand, while Simon is broadcasting from the Crave! northern studios in Tromsø, north of the Arctic Circle. But they’ve both seen the…
Simon and Steve are pleased to have found in Doctor Strange a superhero film from the Marvel Comic Universe that they can both wholeheartedly endorse, but they’re both a little less overwhelmingly enthusiastic about Never Go Back, Tom Cruise’s latest outing…
Neither Simon nor Steve has been terribly impressed with Suicide Squad, the latest offering from the DC universe. Simon’s a little kinder, though, perhaps because Poi E left him in such a good mood, as did Miller’s first concert with…