King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword contains, maybe, 40 or 50 minutes of a very good film. Sadly, though, the thing lasts a good two hours. Charlie Hunnam is Arthur, the Born King, orphaned by his very, very bad uncle…
The latest episode of Crave! sees Simon and Steve trying, with limited success, to unravel the tangled mess that is Alien: Covenant, the latest, but almost certainly not the last, instalment in the ongoing, the ever ongoing, Alien saga. They’re…
My interest in Alien:Covenant was not so much about how it looked, or how well it was acted and directed. Having followed the Alien saga through the first four films, and then the first prequel, Prometheus, my concern going into…
Episode 39 of Crave! sees the return of Debbie, our favourite guest reporter, talking to Simon and Steve about the recent Cyndi Lauper and Blondie concert at Auckland’s Vector Arena. Steve and Simon both had a great time with Marvel’s latest cash…
People laughed. They laughed out loud. A lot. So did I. A lot. And at one point, as Sam Cooke’s “Bring It On Home to Me” filled the cinema, a group of young Pacific Island guys to my left burst…
Steve’s finally got his computer fixed, and so episode 38 of Crave! is sounding a lot better. All the more reason, then, to tune in for Simon and Steve’s discussion of Denial, the brilliantly powerful telling of the story of…
Let’s start with a totally surprising scene in the first part of the film that blew everyone in the audience away. It caught everyone off guard, it was delightful, it brought a smile to everyone’s face, and it was a…
The Lego Batman Movie has been entertaining Steve and Simon enormously this week. Simon has been enjoying being transported back to his younger days by Beauty And The Beast, the new Disney live-action remake of its 1991 animation classic, while…
It’s hard to understand how CHiPs came to be made. There has been, in recent years, something of a trend toward slightly ironic, somewhat knowingly mocking film remakes of American telly from the 1970s and 1980s — 21 Jump Street, Starchy &…
The animated version of this film came out a quarter of a century ago, and I recall seeing it (how many times? Ten, twenty? A hundred?) with my daughter when it subsequently came out on video cassette. That cassette tape…