In this film producer/director Peter Jackson stirs you and unsettles you, as he probably intends to do. Depending on your family history, and your political views, you may well feel a mixture of pride and revulsion. Jackson takes original footage…
Bohemian Rhapsody takes on what is probably the hardest of all storytelling tasks. To give you an account of a real person, and someone who died not that long ago. There won’t be many who’ll never have heard of Freddie…
This BBC thriller, now available on Netflix, is gripping, fast moving, throws a few curve balls your way and keeps you guessing. It drops you straight into a swirl of current day concerns: a fear of domestic terrorist activity; the…
After tackling several serious films (First Man, 22 July, A Star is Born), some lighter fare seemed in order for Crave. What better than another instalment in a long running horror franchise, and a submarine thriller about a looming third…
Steve and Simon are both very, very impressed this week by the latest version of A Star Is Born, this latest starring Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper. Simon is equally as taken with First Man, the Ryan Gosling film about…
“A load of lovely old crooks just having a laugh” is how one of the old boys in King Of Thieves describes the crew that pulled off the Hatton Gardens Job, the biggest robbery in British history. But King Of…
There is, at the heart of A Star Is Born, a truly great film. There’s a reason why this story keeps getting remade — it was first filmed in 1937 with Janet Gaynor in the lead, that film itself based,…
Upon hearing of a movie about the life of Neil Armstrong, the biggest question I wanted answered was why he was such a quiet, undemonstrative, even shy figure. Although he lived a public life after becoming the first human to…
Last week Simon got swept away in the fresh blues/soul sound of Victorian band The Teskey Brothers. (Check out his review from 7 October) Now,thanks to photographer Megan Moss, we’ve got some excellent images of the evening at Auckland’s Mercury…
Perhaps some events are simply so awful that the only way to deal with them on film is to pare back the storytelling. Find a script where the actors talk like ordinary people. Don’t use big name actors who may…