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1 month ago | 
flicks.com.au | Katie Parker |Luke Buckmaster |Clarisse Loughrey |Rory Doherty
All of a sudden, not one but two musician biopics arrive that offer something genuinely different, freshening up a tired genre, writes Luke Buckmaster. For a long time the musician biopic genre has felt rather crusty, hard-coded with stories about lucky breaks, fawning crowds, descents into self-destruction and, of course, Important Life Lessons.
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1 month ago | 
flicks.com.au | Eliza Janssen |Katie Parker
Each month, new films and TV shows are added to Disney+‘s Australian library. Here’s Eliza Janssen’s recommendations for the titles most worth watching. Scroll down for the full list of everything arriving on the platform. Top picksA kind of Kid Rashomon, or, as it’s more significantly known, Pixar’s first TV series.
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1 month ago | 
flicks.com.au | Steve Newall |Katie Parker |Luke Buckmaster |Clarisse Loughrey
With a mix of informed takes, educated guesses, and just plain guesses, Steve Newall makes some predictions about next week’s Oscars. This year’s Oscars are almost upon us, with this year’s Academy Awards taking place on Sunday (US time)—which means during the day on Monday for those of us in Australasia. If you’re as easily confused by an international date line as we are, you may find this info helps: How to watch in Australia or how to watch in NZ.
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1 month ago | 
flicks.com.au | Matt Glasby |Katie Parker |Luke Buckmaster |Clarisse Loughrey
Matt Glasby’s monthly column How to… turns a sly, critical eye on how the movie world really works. This month: How to… win an Oscar. Since the Oscars began in 1929, some 3,000 people have won their very own little gold statue – which means there are around 8 billion of us left on the planet who haven’t. While it’s too late to change that this year*, here are some tips to bear in mind for your 2026 campaign.
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
brnw.ch | Tony Stamp |Steve Newall |Dominic Corry |Katie Parker
Clarisse Loughrey’s Show of the Week column, published every Friday, spotlights a new show to watch or skip. This week: Pachinko’s constant mirroring of past and present. Not much else on television is as tender, intimate, and vulnerable as Pachinko, created by Soo Hugh as an adaptation of Min Jin Lee’s 2017 novel, and which shifts between the decades and generations of a Korean immigrant family in Japan.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
flicks.com.au | Katie Parker |Eliza Janssen |Rory Doherty |Luke Buckmaster
A rookie FBI agent investigates serial killings with an occult overtone in new horror Longlegs. It demands to be seen with an audience that can be as pummelled as we were, says Steve Newall. When’s the last time you saw a scary Nicolas Cage film? One that really chilled? Setting aside Leaving Las Vegas, it’s not super easy to say, is it?
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Jul 14, 2024 | 
flicks.co.nz | Katie Parker
Minari director Lee Isaac Chung takes the reins for this sequel to 1996’s tornado-chasing hit. The result is a surprisingly adept and enjoyable disaster epic, says Katie Parker, one that wisely keeps things cheerful, wholesome and enjoyably dumb. From Super Mario to Garfield to Jurassic Park, it feels like, by now, Hollywood must have milked dry every last sacred culture cow. Not quite—but they’ve at long last moved on to some less obvious choices.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
brnw.ch | Clarisse Loughrey |Steve Newall |Travis Johnson |Katie Parker
With Charli XCX announced to headline this summer’s Laneway Festival, new companion album brat and it’s completely different but also still brat out now, and Auckland’s Sky Tower turning brat green, we revisit a series of film screenings curated by Charli XCX that shared some of brat’s cinematic influences. Originally published by Flicks on June 12, 2024Charli XCX’s superb sixth album brat released last week.
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Apr 30, 2024 | 
brnw.ch | Katie Parker |Stephen Russell |Adam Fresco |Eliza Janssen
These are the shows we’ve gotten excited about so far 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 shows 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.
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
flicks.co.nz | Katie Parker
A stuntman returns to the biz (and an ex) in action-rom-com The Fall Guy. It might not challenge stars Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt (or the audience), writes Katie Parker – but as a big, bombastic blockbuster starring two of the most bankable stars in the world, it’s a whole lot of fun.
