It’s time — finally — for the final series of Game Of Thrones, and so Simon and Steve dissect, in fine detail, the first episode. Steve’s been to the Auckland leg of the Christchurch benefit concert tour You Are Us/Aroha…
After a disappointingly long run of quite awful attempts by DC to steal some of Marvel’s comic-universe momentum, Shazam! finally manages to go some small way toward making up the gap. It is, of course, the origin story of a…
Another film-heavy episode, and this week Simon and Steve are in agreement about Dumbo, a heavyweight of a film that fails to take off. Daffodils, the new New Zealand film featuring the songs that Kiwis grew up with over the…
This is not an easy film to explain, simply because to do so would rob you of the enjoyment of its twists and turns. But you know it comes from writer director Jordan Peele, the man who brought us Get…
There is, presumably, a question to be asked when approaching the re-making of a classic film like Dumbo. Should the updated version cleave closely to the original, retaining story, and characters, or should it simply identify what was the heart…
The pitch for Daffodils really can’t have been too hard. “That Mamma Mia, it was mean, wasn’t it?” “Bloody oath, it was!” “Sweet as, then, bro, chur.” It must have been something like that, because Daffodils, a film that has…
Alleged paedophilia isn’t really the stuff entertainment review podcasts thrive on, but Leaving Neverland, the new HBO-produced doco about the allegations surrounding Michael Jackson, is a compelling — a very tough, but compelling — watch, and Simon and Steve have…
This is a more than decent outing in the Marvel Studios conveyor belt of superhero films and it scores points in plenty of areas. But somehow, it didn’t quite make the mark I was hoping it would. And, after mulling…
The Eagles have managed to divide opinion just a little bit. Simon is just a bit more full of praise for what Steve found to be a very slightly dull, in places at least, show. The Happy Mondays at the…
Oscar season is approaching, and so it’s time for Steve and Simon’s Academy Award predictions. Roma features highly, although Simon rates it just a little more than Steve does. Both of our reviewers have plenty of good things to say…