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2 weeks 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.
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3 weeks 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 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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1 month 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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1 month 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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1 month 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.
