From the very first scene, Ocean’s 8 makes its heritage clear. Opening with Debbie Ocean (Sandra Bullock) trying to persuade a prison parole board that she’s ready for release; the echoes of George Clooney and 2001’s Ocean’s 11 are clear,…
It was the computer HAL in 2001 A Space Odyssey. The machines in the Terminator films. The human looking robot in Ex Machina. The replicants in Blade Runner. The threat of artificial intelligence is a popular theme in science fiction,…
The easy response to a concert like last night’s would be cynicism. Niall Horan, a very pretty one-time member of a boy band that didn’t win a television talent contest, played to an arena packed with girls and young women…
Steve and Simon have both been to the pictures this week, and while they’re by and large in agreement that Solo: A Star Wars Story is perfectly serviceable but ultimately less than remarkable, they’re a little more divided on the…
Steven Adler’s show at The Powerstation was always going to be a very odd thing. It’s not entirely unreasonable that the drummer from Guns N Roses, now somewhat estranged from the band that made his name and nearly destroyed him,…
As was quite amply evidenced by the disappointment that was Deadpool 2 recently, sequels rarely capture the magnificence of a splendid original. Imagine Dragons last played in New Zealand three years ago, in support of their second album, Smoke +…
We have the luxury in Crave of picking and choosing our entertainments at will. So this time it is not a film, a recorded or live piece of music, or stand up comedy on the agenda. If you heard our…
Superhero films have had a tendency to be a po-faced lot. Guardians Of The Galaxy did a lot to reverse that trend, but it took 2016’s Deadpool to bring some proper, ugly, nasty, sweary humour to the genre. It was…
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…
The first time I heard the Drax Project was on the radio driving home from work one evening. It was one of those rare moments when an unfamiliar song is played and you wait for the presenter to tell you…