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The Last of Us Season Two Episode One Review SpicyPulp

Making a return to the post-apocalyptic world based on the popular Playstation game franchise, The Last of Us returns for season two, making its return to Kiwi screens thanks to SKY and NEON’s partnership with HBO on April 14. After a global pandemic destroys civilization, a hardened survivor takes charge of a 14-year-old girl who […]

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Movie Trailers

Brace yourself for blockbuster action with ‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’

April 14, 2025 Samuel Hames

In an event that has been 29 years in the making, 2025’s Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is shaping up to be a one-of-a-kind blockbuster event as Hollywood megastar Tom Cruise takes the cinema to even new heights, and this experience will have your adrenal gland working overtime! Check out the brand new trailer […]

The Last of Us Episode One Review SpicyPulp

Television Recaps

‘The Last of Us’ – Season One – Review

April 12, 2025 Samuel Hames

Few things get us more hyped than a solid video game adaptation, and HBO’s The Last of Us isn’t just solid—it’s a stone-cold masterpiece. A gut-wrenching, pulse-pounding, and deeply emotional journey, this series takes everything that made the original game a genre-defining experience and elevates it to a whole new level of prestige television greatness. […]

Movie Reviews

‘The Amateur’ – Review

April 10, 2025 Samuel Hames

In a genre often dominated by indestructible heroes and over-the-top set pieces, The Amateur arrives like a jolt to the system, delivering a gritty, brainy spy thriller that trades bravado for vulnerability and spectacle for smarts. After Charles “Charlie” Heller (Rami Malek), a CIA cryptographer, loses his wife in a London terrorist attack, he realizes […]

Movie Reviews

‘Death of a Unicorn’ – Review

April 9, 2025 Samuel Hames

Death of a Unicorn is WTF cinema at its finest, a savage slice of psychedelic fantasy horror that rips through genre tropes like a unicorn’s horn through a trust fund baby’s chest cavity. When a man (Paul Rudd) and his daughter (Jenna Ortega) accidentally hit and kill a unicorn with their car, his boss tries […]

Movie Reviews

‘The Seed of the Sacred Fig’ – Review

April 9, 2025 Samuel Hames

Mohammad Rasoulof’s The Seed of the Sacred Fig is a blistering political powder keg that doesn’t just simmer—it explodes. Delivered with the raw emotional intensity and high-stakes urgency, this Iranian thriller is a defiant, deeply personal masterstroke that slices through the veil of authoritarian silence with surgical precision. Judge Iman, paranoid amid Tehran’s unrest, loses […]

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‘The Last of Us’ – ‘Future Days’ – Review

Brace yourself for blockbuster action with ‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’

‘The Last of Us’ – Season One – Review

‘The Amateur’ – Review

‘Death of a Unicorn’ – Review

‘The Seed of the Sacred Fig’ – Review