Director Peter Berg takes on a big story – the Deepwater Horizon tragedy of 2010 – and treats it with due respect in this dramatic and stirring retelling of one of the big environmental disasters of modern times. It tells…
Deepwater Horizon
Skyscraper Stan & The Commission Flats with Raven: photo gallery
Skyscraper Stan & The Commission Flats kicked off their New Zealand tour last night in Pukekohe, with support and backing vocals for Raven. Crave! was there, and we’ll have a full review shortly. In the meantime, here’s Steve’s photo gallery…
Crave! episode 26: The Magnificent Seven, Bridget Jones’ Baby, The Beatles, The Secret Life Of Pets
Neither Simon nor Steve can really find too much to say about The Magnificent Seven this week, but they’ve both enjoyed Bridget Jones’ Baby much more than either of them expected they would. Simon has been quite impressed with the overly-punctuated The…
The Magnificent Seven: not a classic, when it needed to be
There’s a lot riding on the horseflesh of this Western. It’s a remake of the 1960 American film The Magnificent Seven, which was itself a remake of a 1954 Japanese film, The Seven Samurai, crafted by the great director Akira…
The Magnificent Seven: not at all magnificent, and not really seven, either
Remake a classic by all means, but if you’re going to remake a much-loved, classic western like The Magnificent Seven, itself a remake of Kurosawa Akira’s 1954 classic 七人の侍 (Shichinin no Samurai, The Seven Samurai), then you need to bring something very…
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8 Days A Week – The Touring Years. I sat through most of this documentary with a broad smile on my face, and then towards the end, as the film charted the Beatles’ disillusionment with touring, the smile was replaced,…
The Secret Life Of Pets: not the film it could — or should — have been
The Secret Life Of Pets has enormous potential. Its central conceit, at least as depicted in trailers, is something along the lines of Toy Story for domestic animals; the quality of the animation is outstanding; the voice talent is top-notch.…
Bridget Jones’ Baby: surprisingly enjoyable
It’s hard to imagine a film it would be less cool to go and see than the latest in the Bridget Jones saga. While the first in the series, Bridget Jones’ Diary, was funnier and more enjoyable than it’s ever…
Crave! episode 25: Nerve, Sausage Party, Sully, Chasing Great and Tim Booth from James
It’s the twenty-fifth episode of Crave!, and Steve and Simon have spent a lot of time at the cinema this week. They’ve both seen Nerve, the new social-media thriller that’s split their opinions a little. Sausage Party managed to both…
Sully: a high-flyer of a film about a flight that barely got off the ground
Americans love a good hero, and so the treatment Captain Chesley B Sullenburger — Sully to pretty much the entire world after he landed the Airbus A320 he was flying in New York’s Hudson River after it lost both its engines…