Movie + Entertainment News and Reviews
Welcome…to Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom that is! The sequel to the $1.6 billion-dollar box office taking Jurassic World (whispers…reboot) has arrived and hits NZ Cinemas today. There’s plenty of haters out there in the movie reviewing community and the wider movie viewing audience, that consider themselves cerebral and highbrow, that wanna dino poo-poo all over […]
A look at what is out in NZ Cinemas fresh this week and what is still playing in theatres near you. DISNEY’S A WRINKLE IN TIME The Cosplay inspo! The hair and make-up work that is going to launch a thousand YouTube tutorials; I’m of course talking about Disney’s A Wrinkle in Time. Directed by […]
I’m a super big movie and pop-culture nerd over here with an intense interest in getting back into video gaming (it’s been a while…) so seeing Ready Player One ASAP was a must! Ready Player One directed and adapted by Steve Spielberg from the hit Ernest Cline cult novel; is an action-adventure movie filtered through […]
Ingrid Goes West released on DVD in NZ on March 21st is a solid dark-comedy thriller with a hefty helping of creepiness thanks to the excellent and at times unhinged Ingrid, delivered by indie movie ace Aubrey Plaza (Parks and Recreation’s April, Safety Not Guaranteed). Ingrid Goes West is fun and playful but often dips […]
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For #trailertuesday we’re taking a look at the brand new, official second trailer for Red Sparrow starring the incomparable Jennifer Lawrence as Russian Intelligence agent Dominika Egorova. Dominika Egorova is drafted against her will to become a “sparrow,” a trained seductress in the Russian security service. Dominika learns to use her body as a weapon, […]
OK so look I’m not good at making these lists. I find this perhaps the one area of my life that I find incredibly difficult to make some decisions on things and run with them; cause as I reminisce on the movies of the year I start thinking about things I like, or even re-watch […]
The Girl With All The Gifts is a solid zombie flick with some cool surprises, fresh perspectives and the guts to think about the big questions in it’s closing twist. Based on the best selling novel by M.R. Carey, The Girl With All The Gifts is directed by TV heavyweight Colm McCarthy, who is responsible […]
LOVED. EVERY. FRAME. OK, that three word review of Star Wars: The Last Jedi while true and manages to capture my immense satisfaction with this addition to the Star Wars story-verse; probably isn’t quite long enough a review to warrant posting so let me give you a bit more of an overview. From the opening […]
Geostorm is a classic popcorn blockbuster action movie that has a big helping of disaster movie and sci-fi trimmings added on. Starring Gerard Butler and set in the not to distant future (events kick off in 2019); Geostorm has a great message in that if we as a planet can realize that our future is […]