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‘The Narrow Road to the Deep North’ – Review

A sombre and haunting experience awaits those who walk The Narrow Road to the Deep North. In what is easily the most emotionally arresting television event of 2025, visionary Australian filmmaker Justin Kurzel adapts Richard Flanagan’s Booker Prize-winning novel into a sweeping, harrowing five-part miniseries that confronts the brutality of war, the transcendence of love, […]

‘It: Welcome to Derry’ – Review

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

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 […]

‘It: Welcome to Derry’ – Review

‘The Last of Us’ – Season One – Review

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. […]

‘It: Welcome to Derry’ – Review

‘Industry’ – Season Two – Review

Buckle up, folks, because Industry Season Two kicks things into high gear and doesn’t let up for a second. HBO’s fiendish finance drama returns with more ambition, more ruthlessness, and a whole lot more chaos as Pierpoint & Co.’s young, hungry analysts dive headfirst into a world of high-stakes trading, office politics, and personal self-destruction. […]

‘It: Welcome to Derry’ – Review

‘The White Lotus’ – ‘Denials’ – Review

Just when you thought The White Lotus couldn’t get any more depraved, any more unhinged, or any more deliciously scandalous, Mike White drops Episode Six, ‘Denials’ like a nuclear bomb of psychological chaos, and it’s a fucking masterpiece of twisted, transgressive television. In the wake of the Full Moon festivities, Laurie feels deceived by Jaclyn, […]

‘It: Welcome to Derry’ – Review

‘Industry’ – Season One – Review

If you like your television bold, provocative, and unrelenting, then HBO’s Industry is the show for you. From the minds of Mickey Down and Konrad Kay, this high-finance drama is an intoxicating, adrenaline-fueled ride through the cutthroat world of London investment banking, where only the strongest—and most ruthless—survive. With its razor-sharp writing, fearless performances, and […]

‘It: Welcome to Derry’ – Review