Daniel Rutledge

Auckland

Strategy Lead and Commercial Editor at NZME ( New Zealand Media & Entertainment)

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Articles

Palme d’Or winner Julia Ducournau returns to Cannes with blunt, uncompromising Alpha

2 weeks ago | flicks.co.uk | Rory Doherty |Eliza Janssen |Daniel Rutledge |Clarisse Loughrey

A teen comes home with a recklessly-applied tattoo during an era of a lethal blood-borne disease in Julia Ducournau’s Alpha. Reporting from Cannes, Rory Doherty considers how this new film, with less of an emphasis on body horror, sits among the Palme d’Or winner’s work. Julia Ducournau has followed up winning the Palme d’Or with a film that sees sickness and memory as hungry urges equally capable of driving us off the edge.
Cannes goes Peak Wes Anderson with the premiere of The Phoenician Scheme

2 weeks ago | flicks.co.uk | Eliza Janssen |Daniel Rutledge |Clarisse Loughrey |Tony Stamp

Reporting from Cannes, Rory Doherty sees just how Wes Anderson’s latest illuminates how his House Style works. Coming to Cinemas - 23 May There are three stages to watching The Phoenician Scheme, a period espionage drama from Wes Anderson. First, the initial, welcome surprise that the King of Quirk has incorporated a classic thriller pulse into his beloved, idiosyncratic rhythms. Then, a sincere worry that the extended anthologised middle will drain your enjoyment.
Heads up: The Final Destination series’ best skull-smashing carnage

2 weeks ago | flicks.co.nz | Daniel Rutledge

A beloved horror franchise returns after more than a decade with Final Destination: Bloodlines. Daniel Rutledge revisits the series and the most disgustingly literal ways it messes with heads onscreen. Spoiler alert: This piece includes two scenes from the newest film. If you don’t want to know what happens, turn back here. It’s been 14 long years since we last had a Final Destination movie and damn it’s good to have Death back.
EGOT Viola Davis plays a butt-kicking POTUS in bonkers action romp G20

1 month ago | flicks.com.au | Daniel Rutledge |Travis Johnson |Liam Maguren |Matt Glasby

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.
All’s normal (except it really, really is not) in first ep of The Last of Us

1 month 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.
The Last of Us is back, still making the greatest game franchise ever even greater

1 month ago | flicks.co.nz | Daniel Rutledge

Back for its second season, The Last of Us continues to build and expand upon its beloved video game source material. Daniel Rutledge reflects on an impressive first episode – and the challenges to come. There’s one scene in this episode that encapsulates a lot of what this show gets just right. It’s a great demonstration of how it can do a lot with a little, and is possible only after its careful building up of a fearsome bank of emotional stakes to draw from.
Black Mirror’s performances are its greatest weapon in season 7

1 month 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.
Does Hacks have the best love (okay, love-hate) story on TV?

1 month 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.
Interview with Robert Sarkies, on the announcement of ‘Two Little Boys’

1 month 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.
Black Mirror’s performances are its greatest weapon in season 7

1 month 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.