‘Predator: Badlands’ – Review

The hunt is well and truly on in Predator: Badlands, and director Dan Trachtenberg once again proves why he has become one of the most exciting voices in science fiction action filmmaking. Having revitalised the Predator Universe with the stripped-back ferocity of Prey and the high-concept mayhem of Predator: Killer of Killers, Trachtenberg now flips […]

Prime Video kicks off the Apocalypse for ‘Fallout’ Season Two with Sydney Date for Global Tour

In a thrilling announcement that got us salivating with anticipation, Prime Video has announced that Ella Purnell (Yellowjackets, Sweetpea), Aaron Moten (Emancipation, Father Stu) and Walton Goggins (The White Lotus, The Righteous Gemstone) will be travelling to Australia this November, marking the first stop on the global tour celebrating Fallout Season 2 In preparation for […]

‘Bloke of the Apocalypse’ – Review

New Zealand has always taken pride in that classic number 8-wire, roll-up-your-sleeves attitude, and it’s this very sense of Kiwi ingenuity and cultural identity that young animator Charlie Faulks gleefully sends up in his all-new animated zombie-apocalypse comedy series Bloke of the Apocalypse. Currently screening thanks to NZ On Air funding and on Faulks’ own […]

‘Bugonia’ – Review

Halloween has arrived, and if you’re looking for something freakish, fearless, and wholly, wildly original, then Yorgos Lanthimos’ Bugonia is the cinematic fever dream you need to throw yourself into. Strange, shocking, darkly hilarious and wickedly tense, Bugonia is an absurdist black comedy that twists itself into deeper and darker psychological territory with every passing […]

‘Pike River’ – Review

November 19, 2010. A date etched into Aotearoa’s collective memory. A day marked by shock, grief and disbelief as 29 men lost their lives in the Pike River Mine disaster; New Zealand’s worst industrial tragedy in modern history. It was a moment that stopped the country, and its impact has never faded. Now, in 2025, […]