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3 days ago | 
flicks.co.uk | David Brown |Vicci Ho |Daniel Rutledge |Clarisse Loughrey
Clarisse Loughrey’s Show of the Week column spotlights a new show to watch or skip. This week: The Last of Us returns for season two. The hard lesson of our era is how unnervingly easy it is to find normalcy while the world outside our window burns.
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1 week ago | 
flicks.co.uk | Daniel Rutledge |Luke Buckmaster |Clarisse Loughrey |Matt Glasby
Clarisse Loughrey’s Show of the Week column spotlights a new show to watch or skip. This week: Charlie Brooker’s dystopian tech anthology Black Mirror is back with a new batch of eps. Does Black Mirror still have the power to scare us? A decade ago, it felt like an electric shock applied to the public consciousness: its anthology tales of pig-fucking prime ministers, clownish TV star dictators, and the dead resuscitated by AI were dark, cynical, but just plausible enough.
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1 week ago | 
flicks.com.au | Clarisse Loughrey |Luke Buckmaster |Daniel Rutledge |Travis Johnson
One of today’s most beloved shows returns for its fourth season, with new episodes of Hacks arriving imminently. Eliza Janssen takes a look at what makes this inside-comedy comedy so compelling. Oh, how the writers’ room tables have turned.
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1 week ago | 
flicks.com.au | Clarisse Loughrey |Luke Buckmaster |Daniel Rutledge |Travis Johnson
Yesterday we announced the news that comedians Bret McKenzie (Flight of the Concords) and Aussie Hamish Blake (Hamish and Andy) are confirmed to star in the comedy Two Little Boys, which will begin filming in Southland in January 2011. The film will be directed by Robert Sarkies (man behind the great Out of the Blue, Scarfies) and is based on the dark comedy novel of the same name by his brother, Duncan Sarkies.
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1 week ago | 
flicks.com.au | Luke Buckmaster |Daniel Rutledge |Travis Johnson
Clarisse Loughrey’s Show of the Week column spotlights a new show to watch or skip. This week: Charlie Brooker’s dystopian tech anthology Black Mirror is back with a new batch of eps. Does Black Mirror still have the power to scare us? A decade ago, it felt like an electric shock applied to the public consciousness: its anthology tales of pig-fucking prime ministers, clownish TV star dictators, and the dead resuscitated by AI were dark, cynical, but just plausible enough.
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1 week ago | 
flicks.com.au | Clarisse Loughrey |Luke Buckmaster |Daniel Rutledge |Travis Johnson
Seth Rogen plays a newly-minted studio boss in Hollywood comedy series The Studio. While satirical, it’s also earnest and auteur-ish, writes Dominic Corry, with an appealing idealism about the power of movies. Into the long and sometimes glorious canon of fictional depictions of Hollywood comes Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s The Studio, a sometimes breezy, sometimes frenetic, often funny exploration of some of the most champagne-iest problems ever faced.
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2 weeks ago | 
flicks.com.au | Luke Buckmaster |Daniel Rutledge |Travis Johnson
The Brutalist is one of those films that will set up a permanent residence in your head: once seen, never forgotten. Here’s six reasons why you shouldn’t miss Brady Corbet’s epic Oscar-nominated period drama, which has “future classic” written all over it. The story follows Adrien Brody’s László Tóth, a Hungarian architect and Holocaust survivor who emigrates to America in the 1940s, hoping, wishing, needing to start again.
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2 weeks ago | 
flicks.co.nz | Daniel Rutledge
A judo expert President wastes a veritable smorgasbord of international goons in new action pic G20 – streaming on Prime Video. Enjoying the heck out of seeing Davis’ POTUS going up against a Kiwi-played baddie called Rutledge? Flicks’ own Daniel Rutledge. American movies have given us plenty of American presidents kicking arse. “Get off my plane,” Harrison Ford grumbles in Air Force One before killing a terrorist played by Gary Oldman with his bare hands, after taking a few others out with an MP5.
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3 weeks ago | 
flicks.com.au | Eliza Janssen |Steve Newall |Daniel Rutledge |Clarisse Loughrey
These are the movies we’ve gotten excited about this year – and where you can watch them. Can’t decide what to watch? Well, look no further—there’s bound to be something on this list of our fave movies so far this year, whether you’re watching for the first time, or revisiting a recent highlight. This post will be updated each month with new recommendations for viewing both in cinemas and at home.
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3 weeks ago | 
flicks.com.au | Eliza Janssen |Steve Newall |Daniel Rutledge |Clarisse Loughrey
Liam Maguren combs through the extensive Valentine’s Day offerings streaming on Stan – perfect for all you hopeless romantics looking for a good movie night. We all know how much work goes into a good Valentine’s Day. Whether you’re spending up large or keeping it humble, planning is essential. And planning takes time. So let’s cut down some of the unnecessary busy work. Here, you’ll find a tried-and-true legacy list of Valentine’s Day-approved movies ready to stream on Stan.
