Radioactive – an artist’s view of love and death
The film Radioactive tells the story of Marie Curie, one of the world’s most famous and influential scientists. She is the woman who, along with her husband Pierre, effectively unlocked radioactivity....
View ArticleCrave! episode 97: Radioactive, Eurovision, True Detective, Taylor Swift’s...
As Simon and Steve inch ever closer to their hundredth episode, the emphasis remains on films. Radioactive is the story of Marie Curie, and a film that both our reviewers found quite engaging....
View ArticleBill And Ted Face The Music: an appropriately long-overdue conclusion to the...
Bill And Ted Face The Music opens in New Zealand later this week. But Crave!, ever at the cutting edge of film reviews, has secured an exclusive guest review from our USA corrrespondent, Kate...
View ArticleWrath of Man – Guy, What were you thinking?
Oh dear. What a disappointment. If you caught the trailer of this Guy Ritchie directed crime film you may expect another one of his wisecracking, inventive and hard edged capers like last year’s “The...
View ArticleCrave! episode 99: Wrath Of Man, Locked Down, ZeroZeroZero
Jason Statham in the profoundly rubbish Wrath Of Man. Crave! is back, and this week Simon and Steve are doing their best to contain their frustration—they’re not angry, they’re just very, very...
View ArticleA Quiet Place Part 2 – a cracking follow up
Sometimes the best review of a film comes from the feeling in the cinema when the credits roll. Either there’s a buzz or there isn’t. At the end of A Quiet Place Part 2 the audience in the screening I...
View ArticleDon’t Look Up: so very nearly a very good film
Don’t Look Up is a very, very curious film. It’s many things, but I’m still not entirely convinced that it’s actually a good film. Adam McKay, directing a screenplay he wrote with David Sirota, has...
View ArticleKing Richard: an uneven, skewed biopic that misses its mark
Hagiography is a tricky business. You have to be quite sure that your subject deserves the glory they’re getting, and King Richard is on, at the very least, somewhat shaky ground here. At the very...
View ArticleOff The Rails: forgettable.
It’s really not entirely clear what the thinking was behind Off The Rails. The idea of a jukebox musical using the songs of Blondie as a framing device must have seemed very appealing to someone at...
View ArticleScream VI: a scream for all the wrong reasons
Folks, this won’t take long. Scream VI is poor. It’s a poor excuse for a horror movie, and just as poor an excuse for a comedy – and sadly it tries to be both of these things at the same time. Scream...
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