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Quentin Tarantino 10th Film The Movie Critic SpicyPulp

Starting off as the bad boy of the independent cinema scene before rising to become one of the most original and compelling voices in modern cinema, filmmaker Quentin Tarantino is a pure original who needs no introduction. With an incredible list of credits that includes Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill, Inglorious Basterds, […]

Movie Reviews

‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ – Review

March 14, 2023 Samuel Hames

Button your shirt, notch your tie, throw on your suit and get ready to run forth into the breach because Keanu Reeves returns as super-assassin John Wick, the ‘Baga Yaga’ himself, and he’s ready to wage a one-man war against his adversaries of the High Table in what can only be described as a ballet […]

Movie Reviews

‘Empire of Light’ – Review

March 12, 2023 Samuel Hames

Academy Award-winning filmmaker Sam Mendes is undoubtedly one of the most original artists working in cinema today. With a career stretching back to 1999s American Beauty, with a noted theatre career beforehand, he is a director who has continually challenged himself with multiple genre projects and whose movies inspire, provoke and enchant audiences. Now with […]

Movie Reviews

‘Fisherman’s Friends 2: One and All’ – Review

March 9, 2023 Samuel Hames

The good ol’battlers of Cornwell are back and ready to sing up a shanty storm with Fisherman’s Friends 2: One and All, and this is a cinematic experience that will make your heart sing and stir your soul for the call of mateship and the sea. Following the unexpected success of their debut album “No […]

Movie Reviews

‘Scream VI’ – Review

March 9, 2023 Samuel Hames

Ghostface is back, and blood will flow as the slashing moves from the sleepy streets of Woodsboro to the city that never sleeps in New York, and no one is safe from the knife in Scream VI. The film continues with the survivors of the latest Ghostface killings from Scream, sisters Samantha and Tara Carpenter […]

Television Recaps

‘Perry Mason’ – Season Two – Review

March 7, 2023 Samuel Hames

There’s trouble in the city of angels, and when the truth is the only thing that can lead to justice battling lawyer Perry Mason (Matthew Rhys) is the man you want in your corner. The hit HBO show returns for its much anticipated second season so prepare for plenty of white-knuckle tension and sordid storytelling […]

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‘Moss & Freud’ – A Beautifully Crafted Portrait of Art, Identity and Connection – Review

‘Backrooms’ – Kane Parsons Delivers A Nightmare You Can’t Escape – Review

‘Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan: Ghost War’ – ‘ Lock, Loaded and Ready for a Fight’ – Review

HBO Max Is Arriving In New Zealand – And It’s Bringing Dragons, Wizards, And Prestige Television With It

Step into the fire with an all-new look into Season Three of HBO Max’s ‘House of the Dragon’

A radical new Supe Origin arrives in Prime Video’s ‘Vought Rising’

The fire roars as the fight for Westeros turns dark in Season Three of ‘House of the Dragon’

HBO Max’s ‘Lanterns’ faces down fear head on in first teaser trailer

Pink Origins & Power Plays – ‘Elle’ Struts Onto Prime Video With a Fierce, Fabulous Throwback Glow-Up

‘Clarkson’s Farm’ Season Five – Diddly Squat Delivers Another Winning Harvest – Review

‘Spider-Noir’ – Nicolas Cage Swings Into the Shadows In Prime Video’s Wildly Original Pulp Thriller – Review

‘The Boys’ – Season Five – ‘Though the Heavens Fall’ – Review

‘RBG: Of Many, One’ – A Powerful Celebration Of A Legal Legend – Review

Creative Dreams Awaken with this year’s Resene Architecture and Design Film Festival

Burger King goes Full Mando – A New Galactic Feast Arrives in New Zealand

Creating the Film Noir Aesthetic of Prime Video’s ‘Spider-Noir’ – An interview with Li Jun Li, Jack Huston, Abraham Popoola and Oren Uziel

‘Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan: Ghost War’ director Andrew Bernstein talks tip of the spear action and wild set-pieces

One Last Ride with Butcher – Karl Urban Talks Chaos, Carnage and The End of ‘The Boys’

Quentin Tarantino readies his tenth and final film with ‘The Movie Critic’

‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ – Review

‘Empire of Light’ – Review

‘Fisherman’s Friends 2: One and All’ – Review

‘Scream VI’ – Review

‘Perry Mason’ – Season Two – Review