Film/TV/Entertainment Writer/Critic. @Letterboxd Editor-at-Large. Bylines: @EW, @NZHerald, @FlicksNZ & more. RNZ Afternoons movie reviewer. Carlton Crisp.
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"One of the strangest films I've seen in at least the last decade"
A depressed slacker & a man with an alien secret accidentally procreate in this outrageous horror comedy bursting with practical effects.
See MUM, I'M ALIEN PREGNANT at the #ChiFilmFest: chicagofilmfestival.com/film…
Holy shit Lala on the wall! This show hasn’t made me cry in years, or perhaps ever, but that defo did. Sensational stuff. #bb28 #bigbrother
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A journalist has learned that Mitch McConnell is officially BRAINDEAD, while in the USA he is officially DEAD ALIVE.
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Before digital VFX, Alfred Hitchcock was crafting illusions with practical filmmaking.
Much of NORTH BY NORTHWEST is live actors, huge sets, optical tricks and matte paintings by Matthew Yuricich and Lee LeBlanc.
Hand-painted onto sheets of glass & composited with live action:
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It will be at least 40 years before our loved and lovely America recovers from the wounds this selfish, stupid, and ego-driven man has inflicted. That it will recover seems certain to me, but it will leave scars.
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Licence to Kill is god-tier Bond, and Dalton's sewing of seeds of mistrust in Robert Davi's drug lord Franz Sanchez, a plot inspired by Yojimbo, makes for some of the best acting in the entire series
Feels like the time is right for M. Night Shyamalan's character from Lady in the Water to release his guide for a better world, The Cookbook. We need you more than ever, The Cookbook!
Jason Momoa, ‘Sons Of Anarchy’s Kurt Sutter & Chris Collins Rev New Zealand-Set Outlaw Biker Series ‘Nomad’ For Apple TV deadline.com/2025/11/jason-m… via @Deadline
They should've saved the title "The Smashing Machine" for the inevitable Gallagher biopic which I presume will be written by Scott Alexander and Larry @Karaszewski, and which will approach the story from the perspective of the brother, Gallagher Too
Chur to this! Rose Matafeo & Felicity Kendal Cast In Sky’s ‘Small Town Scandal’ Series deadline.com/2025/09/small-t… via @Deadline
Deadly stickball gonna be so boss
David Fincher’s American ‘SQUID GAME’ series will reportedly begin filming in December in LA.
(Source: whats-on-netflix.com/news/ca…)
Currently v obsessed with Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney so I wrote about why it rules for Flicks. @mulaney @NetflixANZ @netflix flicks.co.nz/features/netfli…
In retrospect is clear that Scandoval was the Montreal Screwjob of the @BravoTV-verse. Permanent impact on narrative parameters going forward. Still being felt. Historic stuff. Just think, we were all there for it.
I love it, but sweet Thai chilli sauce is insidious. You get sticky just being near it. The stickiness floats through the air.
These film registry guys are clearly narcs and this is a ruse to get Cheech and/or Chong into a government building
‘Up in Smoke,’ ‘Pride of the Yankees,’ ‘Beverly Hills Cop,’ ‘No Country for Old Men,’ ‘The Social Network’ Inducted Into ... hollywoodreporter.com/movies…
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Hugh Grant expresses fondness for Paddington 2, and explains why its Old Hollywood-style choreography was preferable to the “hell” of freeform dancing in Music and Lyrics 🕺
Watch Grant break down his career from Maurice through Heretic: boxd.it/7By
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On the 40th anniversary of The Terminator, legendary producer Gale Anne Hurd (@GunnerGale) speaks to @DominicCorry about the influences and making of her prescient breakout sci-fi, her films that came afterwards (Aliens! Dick!) and her biggest regret.
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