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1 week ago | flicks.com.au | Clarisse Loughrey |Amelia Berry |Steve Newall |Luke Buckmaster

| 8 episodes With season two, Apple TV+’s The Buccaneers has nicely consolidated its brand. This is Bridgerton for the Sofia Coppola girlies, a lipstick-stained soap opera about hot young people with a chronic inability to commit, splashed with pop-punk feminism, pastel silks, and the occasional social insight.

1 week ago | flicks.co.nz | Steve Newall

| Dir: Kath Akuhata-Brown Coming to cinemas 19 June Aotearoa lends itself to the road movie. The world already knows about the country’s photogenic landscapes thanks to Sir Peter Jackson’s LotR trilogy, but perhaps less is known about New Zealand’s homegrown history with the genre, from Geoff Murphy’s comedically chaotic Goodbye Pork Pie to Gillian Ashurst’s hitchhiker thriller Snakeskin and Himiona Grace’s muso-drama The Pā Boys.

2 weeks ago | flicks.co.uk | Clarisse Loughrey |Matt Glasby |Steve Newall |Luke Buckmaster

| 8 episodes Everyone talks about the one-of-a-kindness of Twin Peaks. Oft imitated, never replicated. Mother to all of television’s prestige dramas, each of them craning their necks up, trying to taste some of that same greatness. And many have, to some degree. But not in the same way. And not, I’d argue, with the same intensity of feeling.

2 weeks ago | flicks.co.nz | Steve Newall

It’s not new, but Twin Peaks is as great as ever – maybe more so as we continue to mourn Lynch and his vision. | 8 episodes Everyone talks about the one-of-a-kindness of Twin Peaks. Oft imitated, never replicated. Mother to all of television’s prestige dramas, each of them craning their necks up, trying to taste some of that same greatness. And many have, to some degree. But not in the same way. And not, I’d argue, with the same intensity of feeling.

2 weeks ago | flicks.co.nz | Steve Newall

A new film just landed on Netflix with the hopes of kickstarting a UFC fighter’s acting career. And it might just work, not only because he turns out to be a watchable actor, but because the film itself is yet another punchy French action flick currently populating the streaming platform. Get a whiff of France’s latest slab of Netflix action as well as similar bone-crunchers from the country of love to add to your Flicks watchlist.