Hagiography is a tricky business. You have to be quite sure that your subject deserves the glory they’re getting, and King Richard is on, at the very least, somewhat shaky ground here. At the very least, it’s a somewhat odd…
Don’t Look Up is a very, very curious film. It’s many things, but I’m still not entirely convinced that it’s actually a good film. Adam McKay, directing a screenplay he wrote with David Sirota, has assembled a quite outstanding cast…
Less really is more, isn’t it? La Casa de Papel came out of nowhere a couple of years ago, one of the trailblazers that paved the way for growing number of non-English-language offerings on Netflix. Under the deeply uninspiring English…
Netflix continues to turn out classy, high-budget dramas. The latest is Clickbait, a stylish, engaging thriller that manages to make a few interesting points about modern life and wrap itself in a clever narrative structure. For all that, it has…
Aotearoa finds itself back in lockdown, and so Kiwis are looking for things to keep us entertained. One of last year’s great breakout hits was La Casa De Papel, the Spanish thriller better known in the English-speaking world as Money…
They’re still in the white heat of battle, fighting for the gold and more importantly fighting for each other. They still hold to their special code of thieves, a code which gives them a Robin Hood-like moral authority to steal…
Crave! has finally reached three figures! Steve and Simon refuse to let a pandemic hold them back, and Crave! returns, with a slightly updated format. We’re just looking at one thing per episode for a while, and for our one…
Live music is starting to return to the US, and The Rainmakers played their first show in two years last week, so Steve has caught up with singer and guitarist Bob Walkenhorst again to talk about playing live, making new…
Postmodern Jukebox are planning to come to New Zealand in March next year, and so Steve caught up with Scott Bradlee to talk about the band’s plans for their Grand Reopening Tour.
Sometimes the best review of a film comes from the feeling in the cinema when the credits roll. Either there’s a buzz or there isn’t. At the end of A Quiet Place Part 2 the audience in the screening I…