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As @lukebuckmaster.bsky.social writes of #Pluribus: "Perhaps the show’s most interesting tonal achievement is that it’s funny - usually funny-weird, sometimes funny ha-ha - but never in ways that jolt you out of the story or reduce the stakes."
Pluribus rewrites the end of the world with a blissfully strange twist
What if the end of the world felt…kind of lovely? The new show from the creator of Breaking Bad creates a truly genre-breaking apocalypse.
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November 11, 2025 at 3:23 AM
As @lukebuckmaster.bsky.social writes of #Pluribus: "Perhaps the show’s most interesting tonal achievement is that it’s funny - usually funny-weird, sometimes funny ha-ha - but never in ways that jolt you out of the story or reduce the stakes."
Youthful narcissism manifests in an impossible balance in #ILoveLA, observes @clarisseloughrey.bsky.social: "The need to play model, muse, health queen, businesswoman, queer icon, activist, and psychologist, all while never letting slip that any of it’s a conscious effort."
Rachel Sennott is happy to poke fun at herself (and her generation) in I Love LA
Superficiality feels almost part of the point in a show where every emotion is ironic and every word a read.
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November 10, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Youthful narcissism manifests in an impossible balance in #ILoveLA, observes @clarisseloughrey.bsky.social: "The need to play model, muse, health queen, businesswoman, queer icon, activist, and psychologist, all while never letting slip that any of it’s a conscious effort."
New four-part Netflix series revolves around two key figures: 20th President of the USA James A. Garfield (Michael Shannon) and Charles J. Guiteau (Matthew Macfadyen), the man who assassinated him.
It's a very entertaining political confection, says @lukebuckmaster.bsky.social
It's a very entertaining political confection, says @lukebuckmaster.bsky.social
Death by Lightning is a wildly entertaining ride through historical chaos
Netflix’s four-part drama dives into the messy events leading up to the assassination of U.S. President James A Garfield. With excellent performances and a cracking script, this ain’t a dry history le...
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November 7, 2025 at 1:42 AM
New four-part Netflix series revolves around two key figures: 20th President of the USA James A. Garfield (Michael Shannon) and Charles J. Guiteau (Matthew Macfadyen), the man who assassinated him.
It's a very entertaining political confection, says @lukebuckmaster.bsky.social
It's a very entertaining political confection, says @lukebuckmaster.bsky.social
If we thought we could have gotten away with "no regerts" in the headline, well, would've had a go at it...
...and no regerts
...and no regerts
Australian weekly box office report: top grossing cinema releases
Our weekly guide to what’s happening at the Australian box office.
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November 6, 2025 at 3:41 AM
If we thought we could have gotten away with "no regerts" in the headline, well, would've had a go at it...
...and no regerts
...and no regerts
Emotional, inspiring, tragic and anger-inducing Aotearoa true story #PikeRiver opens in top spot at the New Zealand box office (read our interview with stars Melanie Lynskey and Robyn Malcolm - www.flicks.co.nz/features/pik...).
NZ weekly box office report: top grossing cinema releases
Our weekly guide to what’s happening at the Aotearoa box office.
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November 6, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Emotional, inspiring, tragic and anger-inducing Aotearoa true story #PikeRiver opens in top spot at the New Zealand box office (read our interview with stars Melanie Lynskey and Robyn Malcolm - www.flicks.co.nz/features/pik...).
Our list of the year's best keeps growing and growing.
The best movies of 2025 so far… and where to watch them
These are the movies we’ve gotten excited about this year – and where you can watch them.
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November 6, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Our list of the year's best keeps growing and growing.
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DOWN CEMETERY ROAD might be cashing in on the success of slow horses, but i dont mind when it’s the sort of show that knows how to have fun
And with television so dominated by dry Weetabix thrillers where everyone talks to each other like an information output machine, #DownCemeteryRoad (and, of course, #SlowHorses before it) feels like a total relief, writes @clarisseloughrey.bsky.social
Emma Thompson follows in Slow Horses’ footsteps with Down Cemetery Road
Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson star in a new espionage series drawn from the novels of Slough House author Mick Herron.
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November 5, 2025 at 11:06 PM
DOWN CEMETERY ROAD might be cashing in on the success of slow horses, but i dont mind when it’s the sort of show that knows how to have fun
And with television so dominated by dry Weetabix thrillers where everyone talks to each other like an information output machine, #DownCemeteryRoad (and, of course, #SlowHorses before it) feels like a total relief, writes @clarisseloughrey.bsky.social
Emma Thompson follows in Slow Horses’ footsteps with Down Cemetery Road
Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson star in a new espionage series drawn from the novels of Slough House author Mick Herron.
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November 4, 2025 at 2:33 AM
And with television so dominated by dry Weetabix thrillers where everyone talks to each other like an information output machine, #DownCemeteryRoad (and, of course, #SlowHorses before it) feels like a total relief, writes @clarisseloughrey.bsky.social
You definitely already know that STRANGER THINGS is back, but what about all the other, even stranger stuff in store: samurais, a pandemic of happiness, assassins, and Kim Kardashian?
10 TV shows arriving in November 2025 that we're excited about
The beginning of the end for Stranger Things, plus a mysterious new series from the creator of Breaking Bad.
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November 3, 2025 at 10:15 PM
You definitely already know that STRANGER THINGS is back, but what about all the other, even stranger stuff in store: samurais, a pandemic of happiness, assassins, and Kim Kardashian?
PIKE RIVER adds weight to Anna Osborne and Sonya Rockhouse's voice just when our country and workers need it most.
Fittingly strong actors play Anna and Sonya onscreen - two of our country’s very best, Melanie Lynskey and Robyn Malcolm - who spoke about the film with @stevenewall.bsky.social
Fittingly strong actors play Anna and Sonya onscreen - two of our country’s very best, Melanie Lynskey and Robyn Malcolm - who spoke about the film with @stevenewall.bsky.social
Pike River interview: “It makes you feel like you want your country back”
Melanie Lynskey and Robyn Malcolm on Pike River, the true story of Anna Osborne and Sonya Rockhouse’s 15-year fight for answers and justice.
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October 22, 2025 at 4:31 AM
PIKE RIVER adds weight to Anna Osborne and Sonya Rockhouse's voice just when our country and workers need it most.
Fittingly strong actors play Anna and Sonya onscreen - two of our country’s very best, Melanie Lynskey and Robyn Malcolm - who spoke about the film with @stevenewall.bsky.social
Fittingly strong actors play Anna and Sonya onscreen - two of our country’s very best, Melanie Lynskey and Robyn Malcolm - who spoke about the film with @stevenewall.bsky.social
Today’s scattered media environment makes it easy to bypass the suffering of children.
As @liammaguren.bsky.social, fresh from seeing #BlackPhone2 observes, today’s horror movies make sure you don’t.
As @liammaguren.bsky.social, fresh from seeing #BlackPhone2 observes, today’s horror movies make sure you don’t.
The kids aren’t alright: unpacking horror’s recent mercilessness towards children
With Black Phone 2 upping the child violence on its predecessor, we look a little deeper into horror’s newest trend.
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October 21, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Today’s scattered media environment makes it easy to bypass the suffering of children.
As @liammaguren.bsky.social, fresh from seeing #BlackPhone2 observes, today’s horror movies make sure you don’t.
As @liammaguren.bsky.social, fresh from seeing #BlackPhone2 observes, today’s horror movies make sure you don’t.
A robust, near-insurmountable argument for the genius of Martin Scorsese, according to @clarisseloughrey.bsky.social - "yet it spends its runtime always teetering on the brink of revelation"
Mr. Scorsese celebrates his genius, but never probes too hard
Made by an artist already within Scorsese’s own inner circle, a new docu-series doesn’t look too closely at the more difficult chapters of his life.
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October 21, 2025 at 2:09 AM
A robust, near-insurmountable argument for the genius of Martin Scorsese, according to @clarisseloughrey.bsky.social - "yet it spends its runtime always teetering on the brink of revelation"
Awesome to see THE WEED EATERS getting the recognition it deserves - as the acclaim continues, we hope the filmmakers remember their first major accolade... its prestigious, earth-shaking ranking as Flicks' #1 film at the NZ International Film Festival: www.flicks.co.nz/features/nzi...
SXSW Sydney Screen Festival Award Winners Revealed
The 2025 SXSW Sydney Screen Festival Award winners have been revealed, with a New Zealand horror/comedy taking home Best Feature Film.
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October 21, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Awesome to see THE WEED EATERS getting the recognition it deserves - as the acclaim continues, we hope the filmmakers remember their first major accolade... its prestigious, earth-shaking ranking as Flicks' #1 film at the NZ International Film Festival: www.flicks.co.nz/features/nzi...
The A-to-Z of Trash reaches V with VAMPIRE'S KISS. Is this even a bad movie? Is it trash, worthy of inclusion in this series?
There are plenty of reasons to say yes... but not in Nicolas Cage's performance - he turns a decent-enough film into a momentous acting showcase (and teaches us our ABCs)
There are plenty of reasons to say yes... but not in Nicolas Cage's performance - he turns a decent-enough film into a momentous acting showcase (and teaches us our ABCs)
V is for Vampire’s Kiss: despite all my rage, I am still just Nicolas Cage
Cage eats an actual cockroach in this seminal work of scenery-chomping – harder than it sounds, when you’re wearing plastic fangs.
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October 20, 2025 at 3:13 AM
The A-to-Z of Trash reaches V with VAMPIRE'S KISS. Is this even a bad movie? Is it trash, worthy of inclusion in this series?
There are plenty of reasons to say yes... but not in Nicolas Cage's performance - he turns a decent-enough film into a momentous acting showcase (and teaches us our ABCs)
There are plenty of reasons to say yes... but not in Nicolas Cage's performance - he turns a decent-enough film into a momentous acting showcase (and teaches us our ABCs)
If you got freaked out by THE DAY AFTER, THREADS, FAIL-SAFE or any other realistic film about nuclear war, buckle up for Kathryn Bigelow's #AHouseOfDynamite, says @stevenewall.bsky.social
A House of Dynamite joins the ranks of the most nervy nuke thrillers
Decades after the Cold War, a nuclear holocaust is closer than we’d like to admit. As close as 18 minutes, in Kathryn Bigelow’s disturbing new film…
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October 17, 2025 at 3:59 AM
If you got freaked out by THE DAY AFTER, THREADS, FAIL-SAFE or any other realistic film about nuclear war, buckle up for Kathryn Bigelow's #AHouseOfDynamite, says @stevenewall.bsky.social
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It feels a little dumb to mourn a mall but hearing the iconic Monroeville Mall from Dawn of the Dead is set to be torn down in the next few years kinda bummed me out. Grew up going there. Hope they keep some sorta landmark with the George Romero bust up somewhere at least
October 17, 2025 at 2:32 AM
It feels a little dumb to mourn a mall but hearing the iconic Monroeville Mall from Dawn of the Dead is set to be torn down in the next few years kinda bummed me out. Grew up going there. Hope they keep some sorta landmark with the George Romero bust up somewhere at least
Roald Dahl's terrible twosome comes to life in a new pic that looks refreshingly different to typical animation, with skew-whiff images and tactile, stop-motion-like aesthetic.
According to @lukebuckmaster.bsky.social it looks a bit, well, *naughty* - which is what you want from a Dahl adaptation.
According to @lukebuckmaster.bsky.social it looks a bit, well, *naughty* - which is what you want from a Dahl adaptation.
Netflix’s The twits plays tug-of-war between nasty and nice
Netflix’s The Twits looks gloriously off-kilter—crooked, colourful, and cheeky. But the script swaps Roald Dahl’s delicious cruelty for something sweeter.
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October 16, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Roald Dahl's terrible twosome comes to life in a new pic that looks refreshingly different to typical animation, with skew-whiff images and tactile, stop-motion-like aesthetic.
According to @lukebuckmaster.bsky.social it looks a bit, well, *naughty* - which is what you want from a Dahl adaptation.
According to @lukebuckmaster.bsky.social it looks a bit, well, *naughty* - which is what you want from a Dahl adaptation.
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Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."
October 16, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."
While this bumpily plotted ride is far from a masterpiece - with a couple of scenes (including a soapy epilogue) deserving of immediate deletion - it’s got fun ideas and several surprises, says @lukebuckmaster.bsky.social
How Tron: Ares reimagines the Tron universe
Tron: Ares reinvents the iconic science fiction franchise, bringing its burningly bright virtual world crashing into ours. There are some surprises – and lots of “look, shiny!”
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October 15, 2025 at 1:48 AM
While this bumpily plotted ride is far from a masterpiece - with a couple of scenes (including a soapy epilogue) deserving of immediate deletion - it’s got fun ideas and several surprises, says @lukebuckmaster.bsky.social
Tim Robinson’s cringey brand of comedy collides with surreal mystery in #TheChairCompany.
His take on comedic male frustration is singular, says @stevenewall.bsky.social: "and if PTA hadn’t already used the title, might itself best be construed as one battle after another… and just as funny."
His take on comedic male frustration is singular, says @stevenewall.bsky.social: "and if PTA hadn’t already used the title, might itself best be construed as one battle after another… and just as funny."
Tim Robinson’s comedy gets even more uncomfortable in The Chair Company
Surreal and paranoid, Tim Robinson’s new HBO show confirms just how awkward his comedy can get when it collides with ‘normal’ life.
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October 13, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Tim Robinson’s cringey brand of comedy collides with surreal mystery in #TheChairCompany.
His take on comedic male frustration is singular, says @stevenewall.bsky.social: "and if PTA hadn’t already used the title, might itself best be construed as one battle after another… and just as funny."
His take on comedic male frustration is singular, says @stevenewall.bsky.social: "and if PTA hadn’t already used the title, might itself best be construed as one battle after another… and just as funny."
#TheLastFrontier transformed @clarisseloughrey.bsky.social into some kind of textual detective, feverishly pacing, pinning plot points and lines of dialogue up on the wall...
"Always, I’d come back to the same damn question: is this show bad? Or knowingly bad, and therefore a little camp?"
"Always, I’d come back to the same damn question: is this show bad? Or knowingly bad, and therefore a little camp?"
Straddling bad and camp, is thriller The Last Frontier silly enough to be fun?
A prison plane crashes in the Alaskan wilderness in Apple TV+’s new thriller series, setting in motion a chain of events that has us scratching our heads.
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October 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
#TheLastFrontier transformed @clarisseloughrey.bsky.social into some kind of textual detective, feverishly pacing, pinning plot points and lines of dialogue up on the wall...
"Always, I’d come back to the same damn question: is this show bad? Or knowingly bad, and therefore a little camp?"
"Always, I’d come back to the same damn question: is this show bad? Or knowingly bad, and therefore a little camp?"
New 5-part docu-series MR. SCORSESE arrives this week - here's some of what @stephenarussell.bsky.social learned about the legendary filmmaker's key movies
Sex, death and glory: Scorsese’s life in 15 films
The subject of new five-part Apple TV+ docuseries Mr. Scorsese, the iconic director proves abundantly generous.
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October 13, 2025 at 8:11 PM
New 5-part docu-series MR. SCORSESE arrives this week - here's some of what @stephenarussell.bsky.social learned about the legendary filmmaker's key movies
As an impressed @lukebuckmaster.bsky.social observes, it’s rare to see so many well-made, adrenaline-fuelled romps premiere in the same month.
October is a cracking month for action movies
Action movie lovers, rejoice! This month a handful of adrenaline-charged movies light up our screens—from fiery rescues to criminal capers and wartime terror.
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October 13, 2025 at 3:56 AM
As an impressed @lukebuckmaster.bsky.social observes, it’s rare to see so many well-made, adrenaline-fuelled romps premiere in the same month.
Netflix's moving and moody STEVE - a “day in the life of” drama set in an English reform school in the 1990s - acknowledges that the people we turn to can be just as messed up as anybody else, but without making their pain the point says @lukebuckmaster.bsky.social
Netflix drama Steve breathes new life into the ‘school of hard knocks’ genre
Cillian Murphy burns slow and bright in Steve, a bruising but cathartic portrait of care, chaos, and collapse inside an English reform school—now streaming on Netflix.
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October 8, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Netflix's moving and moody STEVE - a “day in the life of” drama set in an English reform school in the 1990s - acknowledges that the people we turn to can be just as messed up as anybody else, but without making their pain the point says @lukebuckmaster.bsky.social
Among the more unusual television theses presented this year, THE ED GEIN STORY is sort of fascinating in its own wrong-headed way, writes @clarisseloughrey.bsky.social - "exploitative, trashy, and entirely your fault".
Monster: The Ed Gein Story tries to make him the victim of our voyeurism
The big, fat irony here is that at no point does this exploitative show address its own complicity in the bloodlust it blames Hollywood for.
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October 7, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Among the more unusual television theses presented this year, THE ED GEIN STORY is sort of fascinating in its own wrong-headed way, writes @clarisseloughrey.bsky.social - "exploitative, trashy, and entirely your fault".