The Art Of Black Grace 1/5 is a curious, creative, ingenious thing. A six-meter-high cylinder of screens fifteen meters across, it’s an art installation in itself, but also a way of showcasing Black Grace, Neil Ieremia’s acclaimed contemporary dance company.…
After a very long, very strange couple of years, live music is finally coming back, and Crave! is going to be there as your favourite artists return to the stage. Last night saw George Thorogood and The Destroyers play Auckland’s…
Kiwi singer Jamie McDell releases her latest album today, and she’s take a few minutes to talk to Crave! about family, recording, and the musicians she’s been fortunate enough to work with in Nashville making her record. Podcast: Play in…
It’s really not entirely clear what the thinking was behind Off The Rails. The idea of a jukebox musical using the songs of Blondie as a framing device must have seemed very appealing to someone at some point; perhaps director…
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…